No-bake Peanut Butter Energy Balls
No-bake peanut butter energy balls are perfect when a burst of energy is needed. Full of goodness with the added bonus of cacao to as who doesn’t love chocolate?
Timings
Prep Time
2 mins
Blending
2 mins
Total time
4 mins
Servings
8
Peanut butter energy balls
I’m eating one of these as I type, as extra energy is needed today after a busy weekend and a full day of baking and cooking yesterday! These little energy balls are just what I needed.
Why should I try these energy bites?
- Plenty of energy to gain from the natural sugars in the dates!
- They taste just like peanut butter cups!
- Quick and easy to make.
- Only 5 ingredients!
For all the peanut butter fans
I’m a massive fan of peanut butter and if you are too, you’re going to love these. I chose to use smooth peanut butter for extra smoothness. I also used coconut oil for this reason. They are now silky smooth.
Just look at that silky texture! You’ll have to watch out because these are super moorish!
Of course as well as being pretty healthy, they’re also suitable for vegans and vegetarians and are gluten free. The following recipes serves 8 (8 individuals balls).
Ingredients
- 200g dates (I used deglet nour but any will do)
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 2 tsp of smooth peanut butter
- 2 tsp cacao
- Large handful of desicatted coconut
What blender do I use?
I used my Nutri Bullet as it’s brilliant for whizzing this sticky mix up super quickly. The older Nutri-bullet blenders are quite reasonable now, such as the 600 series. You can find them for around £50-£60 on Amazon (time of writing Jan 2021).
Of course you can use any blender for this recipe. If worse comes to worse, you could try mashing the mix together. Let me know how that goes if you try it!
Equipment Needed
- Knife for chopping the dates
- Blender such as the Nutri Bullet
- A spoon
- Baking tray with shallow sides
Recipe variations
Can I use different types of dates?
Yes you can. I use Waitrose’s deglet nour due to their sweet taste but you can really use any. Medjool also work well. Buy pitted dates as this will save you time de-stoning them.
Can I use crunchy peanut butter?
Yep, crunchy peanut butter is fine to use. I have used it myself in the past. The crunchy parts actually blend down when in the Nutri Bullet so you can’t even tell.
Is hot chocolate powder okay instead of cacao?
Chocolate powder will of course be sweeter as they often contain sugar, so therefore less ‘healthy’. Try and look for one without sugar. Cocoa powder would be a butter option as they don’t contain sugar.
How about using vegetable oil?
No, I don’t think this would taste great. You’re welcome to try and let me know!
Tips
Buying pitted dates will save you a huge amount of time de-stoning them. You’ll thank me later!
No-Bake Peanut Butter Energy Balls
Ingredients
- 200 g dates
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 2 tsp smooth peanut butter
- 2 tsp cacao
- Large handful Desicatted coconut
Instructions
- De-stone your dates if not using pitted ones.
- Add the dates and all the ingredients apart from the coconut, into the blender. Blend until completely combined.
- Roll into 8 balls and line them on a tray.
- Throw over the desiccated coconut and roll them all over it to ensure they are coated well.
- Refridgerate or eat straight away!
Notes
Omg these look so good!
Aw thanks Jess! I couldn’t stop eating them, haha.
How are ALL your recipes this good? 😍
Not all of them are haha but thank you 🙂 I’ll take that compliment!
We have these too here in Austria, and I adore them! Even though, I never tried them with peanut butter, time to change this!
Oh cool! What sort of flavours do you have? You need to try them with peanut butter!
These look so so so delicious! I want to eat them all haha thanks for the recipe 🙂 xx
Heheh no probs! They honestly are so good and I can’t tell that they’re meant to be healthy haha x
YUM! I can’t wait to try making these! They sound amazing! Love your foodie photos as well!
Let me know if you do! Aww thank you! I’ve started really putting something effort in this year x
These look yum. I’m going to make them soon
Show me pics if you do!
They look great! Sadly I can’t eat coconut so I won’t get to try them out but the texture looks amazing x
Sophie
http://www.glowsteady.co.uk
Oh no! Are you allergic? x
I love my Nutribullet and use it all the time for smoothies! I really need to try something a little different in it like these balls as they look perfect for a nutritious snack. Thanks so much for sharing with #CookOnceEatTwice
I actually need to do the opposite to you and use them more for smoothies! But yes you should! Such great tool! I even use it the other day to blend biscuits for a cheesecake style base – took all of 1 min x
These look soooo good! x
Thank you Becky 🙂 x
Love energy balls and these peanut butter ones sound amazing!
Aw thanks Mandy! These are dangerously good x
These look delicious! I’m going to try and make a batch soon😍😍 Thank you for sharing the recipe!
Stephanie
http://www.stephanievivienne.com
Yay! Glad you like them! 🙂
These look sooooo good!! I’m so stealing all your recipes to make at work I hope you don’t mind! 😂 I’ve also had my eye on a Nutri Bullet and may have to snap one up at that price! 😱
Milli
http://www.milliberman.com
They are AMAZING! I’ll be needing to make a second batch at this rate! No, not at all! Haha! You should! That Nutri Bullet was so cheap! When I went to have a look I was really surprised! It sounds like i’m just trying to get people to click on the link but I was genuinely like whaaat!! x
These look DELICIOUS! I recently tried baking Energy Balls for the first time, with chocolate and almonds… I will have to try that recipe, thank you for sharing! 😀
Thank you 😀 Ooh they sound nice too! I think the good thing abou energy balls is that there are endless combinations!
Love these Jess! I love peanut butter and using it in raw bites and these look like my kind of snack! Delicious. Thank you for sharing with #CookBlogShare x
Peanut butter works so well, doesn’t it! Thank you 🙂 x
These look so moreish, and easy to make too!
They were super easy! Literally took me like 5 mins!
I love energy balls. They always feel decadent, even though they are really quite healthy. I’m now craving some made with peanut butter – mmmm! Thanks for sharing with #WeShouldCocoa.
They’re great aren’t they! Oh these were super peanutty!! I really want to make some more now! x