No Bake Chocolate and Peanut Butter Energy Bites
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Chewy, Crunchy, sweet energy bites packed with protein and fiber and held together by a delicious chocolate and peanut butter mixture.
Ingredients
- ½ cup honey or brown rice syrup or a mixture of both. Using all honey makes them very sweet.
- ½ cup peanut butter
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- pinch of salt
- 2½ cups Kashi GoLean or Kashi Vanila Pepita or Uncle Sam's Cereal (*note: if you choose to add all of the optional ingredients cut down amount of cereal to 2¼ cups)
- 2 tbsp chia seeds (Optional)
- ¼ cup peanuts (optional)
- ¼ cup sunflower seeds (optional)
Instructions
- Cover a cookie sheet with wax paper and set aside.
- Mix cereal, chia seeds, peanuts, and sunflower seeds in a medium size mixing bowl and set aside.
- In a saucepan combine the peanut butter, and honey/brown rice syrup and coconut oil. Heat them (stirring) until combined and warm.
- Remove from heat and mix in salt and cocoa powder. Pour well combined mixture into the bowl with the cereal mixture and stir until well combined.
- Let cool for 3-5 minutes.
- Using a plastic glove or plastic baggie over your hand. Scoop 2 tbsp of mixture (I use a cookie scoop for this) into your gloved hand and squeeze it into a ball (or as close as you can get it to a ball) Set it down on the wax paper covered cookie sheet that you prepared earlier.
- Repeat until all of the energy bite mixture has been used.
- Transfer cookie sheet into the fridge and let them set up for 30-45 minutes. Once the energy bites are set up they can be stored in a ziploc bag or airtight container.
- I prefer to keep mine in the fridge, but it is not necessary.
Recipe by Real Life Dinner at https://reallifedinner.com/no-bake-chocolate-peanut-butter-energy-bites/