Description
No-bake energy balls offer quick, nutritious snacks for health-conscious individuals seeking delicious power-packed treats. Packed with wholesome ingredients like nuts, seeds, and natural sweeteners, these bite-sized delights provide convenient energy boosts you can enjoy anywhere.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 1 cup (240 ml) rolled oats
- ½ cup (120 ml) nut butter (peanut butter, almond butter, or cashew butter)
- ⅓ cup (80 ml) honey or maple syrup
Flavor and Nutrition Enhancers:
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons flaxseed meal or chia seeds (optional)
Instructions
- Gather a spacious mixing vessel and amalgamate foundational components: rolled oats, nut butter, natural sweetener, and aromatic vanilla extract, blending until a cohesive mixture forms.
- Incorporate distinctive flavor elements for the selected variation, ensuring thorough integration and balanced distribution of ingredients throughout the mixture.
- Manipulate the consolidated blend with clean hands, crafting compact spherical formations approximately one inch in diameter, utilizing gentle rolling motions.
- Should the mixture exhibit excessive moisture or stickiness, temporarily rest the preparation in the refrigerator for approximately 10 minutes to facilitate easier manipulation.
- Transfer the meticulously shaped orbs onto a parchment-lined surface, positioning them with slight separation to prevent inadvertent merging.
- Allow the constructed energy spheres to stabilize and solidify within the refrigerator’s cool environment for a minimum of 20 minutes, enabling them to achieve optimal structural integrity.
- Once adequately chilled, relocate the prepared delicacies to a hermetically sealed container, preserving their freshness within the refrigerator for up to seven days or extending their longevity by freezing for a maximum of one lunar cycle.
Notes
- Customize the base ingredients by swapping rolled oats with gluten-free oats or quinoa flakes for those with gluten sensitivities.
- Experiment with different nut butters like almond, cashew, or sunflower seed butter to accommodate nut allergies or personal preferences.
- Keep hands slightly damp when rolling to prevent the mixture from sticking and achieve smoother, more uniform energy balls.
- Enhance nutritional value by adding protein powder, chia seeds, or ground flaxseed for an extra boost of protein and omega-3 fatty acids.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Snacks, Breakfast
- Method: Mixing
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 120
- Sugar: 5g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 14g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 0mg