Quick + Easy No Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Bites.
I love today.
It’s Monday, but it’s really Tuesday and even though it feels like Monday and smells like Monday and tastes like Monday, it’s really Tuesday. So perfect.
Let’s do this every week.
I also made you a snack. A snackity-snack, if you will.
And guess what? I can’t stop eating it. You’re probably expecting me to be like OMG! I’m so obsessed with this! and guess what? I totally am.
OMG. I am so obsessed with this.
Soooo I wanted to make my oatmeal peanut butter snack squares for my husband… and as I started gathering ingredients I realized that I had no flour. Zero. None. No whole wheat, no all-purpose, not a drop. Not a sprinkle. Which meant I had to get creative, but it couldn’t be *too* creative since he just wanted some “normal” food. Sometimes he just wants spaghetti and meatballs.
He rarely gets it. Because I’m always shoving something new in his face, something much too “foodie” for his liking. I decided it was time to be nice.
Two things were instantly out: first, coconut. Even though he likes the flavor (read: coconut rum), it’s the texture he can’t stand. That was fine… I wasn’t really in the mood for a peanut butter coconut ball. Second – no dates. I actually love dates on their own, but looooooooathe them in granola bar and ball recipes. No people – they do not taste like cookie dough. Or chocolate. Or s’mores topped with peanut butter topped with fudge. No. They taste like freaking dates, because that’s what they are. !!!!! In case you don’t quite get it yet, I looooooooathe them.
It took a few test runs, but I developed the chewy-but-not-too-sticky consistency that I wanted with the majority of the ingredients I was going to use anyway from the other bars and boom. Instant peanut butter balls. I don’t know if we can call them energy balls but that’s what I say because I think I know everything. And they are so much better when rolled in crushed almonds or peanuts. I mean, so much. We actually ended up fighting over them… like when I went to grab some before a workout and noticed they were GONE. Like totally missing. He took them to work and I threw a fit.
Now, I just make a big double batch on Sunday (rolled in peanuts for him, almonds for me) and keep them in separate containers labeled “touch my balls and you’re dead.”
Quick + Easy No Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Bites
Ingredients
- 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1/4 cup ground flaxseed
- 1/4 cup sliced almonds, chopped
- 2 tablespoons chia seeds
- 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
- a pinch of salt
- 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter, melted and slightly cooled
- 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons mini chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup ground peanuts or ground almonds, to roll the balls in
Instructions
- Combine oats, almonds, flaxseed, chia seeds, salt and cinnamon in a large bowl and stir.
- Melt peanut butter and allow it to cool slightly (I melted mine in the microwave for about 30 seconds, then stirred), then stir in honey and vanilla extract until it’s combined. Once peanut butter has cooled a bit, pour it over the oat mixture and mix well with a spoon then bring together with your hands. Once mixture is sticking together, fold in chocolate chips.
- Roll dough into golf-ball sized (or slightly smaller) balls, then roll in ground peanuts or ground almonds. These can be eaten at room temp but we really like them stored in the fridge!
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233 Comments on “Quick + Easy No Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Bites.”
I could completely live on these
I am *so* there with you this morning. Cannot beat the Monday that is really a Tuesday – especially when it involved peanut butter, chocolate chips, and balls.
I have a feeling it’s going to be a very good week!
How did you have ground flaxseed and chia seeds, but no flour?? Must be your foodie kitchen!
Ooooh, healthy-ish? I think I need more of that in my life right now!
I’ve been dying to do something peanut buttery/oaty, but was considering involving marshmallows. You’ve made me feel very guilty! Thanks for sharing something healthy/totally divine looking.
Jessica! I made a fairly similar ball recipe over the weekend. Chocolate, PB, flax, and oats! That is too funny. What are the chances?? Yours look incredible. I feel like mine would’ve been better with some almonds or cinnamon! I’ve never ran out of flour before, but I’ve been left without chocolate chips… it gave me the shakes. :(
Yummm! If you say it’s healthy I believe you!
Hehe…loved that date comment. I hate it when people make over a recipe as healthy and swear you can’t taste the difference. You totally can. Like no one will ever convince me that you will confuse socca pizza crust with real pizza crust…um…ever. Just own it. Say I made it healthy…it doesn’t taste like a 1000 calorie a slice pizza but it is good in it’s own right. Sheesh.
Oh and these look fabulous!
These look freaking fantastic! Geeze, when I”m out of flour I certainly don’t get creative like this. Love it!
Yeah for Tuesday Mondays! These looks so healthy and delicious!
Loving these! Look so yummy and easy! Easy recipes are my friends ;)
Hope all is well love and I love your new site!
I love Tuesday “Mondays” too!!……….I’ve been messed up with what day of the week it is for almost a week now then BAM it’s Sept 4?! HOW did that happen?
These look incredible Jess!!
Yum! Perfect way to start a Tuesday… or any day for that matter. I love that you didn’t put coconut in them because to be honest, I don’t love the texture of it either. PB however… load me up!
these look so cute and tasty!
Better watch it, these are almost healthy! ;-)
(Love the new header by the way. I’m a little behind so sorry if it’s been up a while)
Totally classy.
I have been thinking about making something similar to this for my kids after school snack..so you’ve basically done all the leg work for me.
Sank you bedy much.
Love your new deign, btw
Thanks love. :)
These look awesome! I almost made something similar last night, but I guess you just made them for me :) Can’t wait to try them!
Girl, THANK YOU. I am all about healthy eating, but sometimes (okay, 90 percent of the time) dessert should be dessert. You want to make blondies with chickpeas and brownies with black beans and “cookie dough” with dates, fine. But if one more blog proclaims that those things taste “OMG SO GOOD YOU WON’T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE,” someone’s pants are going to catch fire. I am appointing you head of the “Keeping Dessert Real” movement.
Haha, love the label on the separate containers! Too funny. I haven’t tried dates in my homemade granola bars. I love them in my oatmeal cookies, but I think the boys would call me out on something like that. These look perfect though! I need to make these for the boys for a quick breakfast. They have now decided to skip breakfast, but I might be able to convince them with these!
I love no bake balls! I make one kind of like yours, but I never thought of adding flax seed and honey! I love that!!! I think I’ll make them today! It seems like a ball kind of day!!
You having no flour on hand = a delicious, healthy, gluten free snack ball? Please run out of flour more often!! (but don’t because your desserts are sometimes all I can think about)
Didn’t even realize they were gluten free! Awesome.
Oh wow, it is Tuesday, isn’t it? I didn’t even realize that until I read your post.
“Touch my balls and you’re dead” haha Some men might take that as a challenge, Jessica. Watch out!
And so ‘The Crying Game’ just pops into my head. Yes, I’m REALLY dating myself.
The saving grace of this “Monday” is totally that it’s Tuesday. I did not want to get up this morning. At all. My brain can’t reallllly comprehend much other than “mmm peanut butter & chocolate” right now.
OMG, first time commenter (but long-time fan)… but this merits it, these look delicious!
These look and sound amazing! p.s. love your new blog design!
Oh how I love these! And you are so right that I’m loving this Monuesday, too! I’ll stay confused all week, but it sure is worth it. Happy short week to you!
I make some similar to these that I LOVE!!! Need to try the chia seed addition. :)
…..LOVE dates as well!!! So stinking delicious! —-kind of like these little gems are looking!!!
I need to make these NOW!
Hahaha, stay away from the balls! Awesome recipe and unique from the typical no-bake balls you see. Wish I would have seen this before breakfast….
These look yummy! And, I love the new look of your blog!
Yep, these are definitely going to be made if I find some time in the kitchen this week. I have to agree, I don’t understand how people can think dates taste like cookie dough..nope. However, I do enjoy them in Larabars, I must say.
Plus, these are much more practical to make!! Love how you labeled your container, I used to write similarly threatening notes on leftovers when I was little..particularly pizza :)
These look amazing!! And I am so with you on the empty promises on the dates, they never taste like what they claim to…
I love snacks, but I almost always end up turning good ones like this into a meal. These will probably be dinner tomorrow…I’m excited.
Hahaha I TOTES agree dates do not taste like cookie dough. Like, don’t put a recipe on your blog for fudge balls and then show DATES in the recipe ingredients, not fudge! Some people.
“touch my balls and your dead” Ahahahaha! Love it… and these balls of yours! ;)
Those look scrumptious…..I’m afraid they wouldn’t last very long in my house either. But you’re just plain crazy for not liking dates in bars! ;)
Do you know how happy these make ME? I love no bake cookies!
Happy Monday, friend.
I have a husband that sounds alot like yours….loves old school WWE, t-shirts with the sleeves cut off and PLAIN food! He always says he doesn’t need anything ‘fancy’ and he considers baked mac n cheese with a breadcrumb topping to be fancy….so you can see my problem ;-)
These balls look great – thank you for not adding dates! I’d join your ‘loathe the date’ club anyday!!
Oh my goodness, I made a not so healthy version of these last night! I love the almonds and flaxseed. I think I’m going to try it with almond butter though…
You are a genius!!!
Cute little balls with PB and oats and coconut and chocolate — cannot go wrong with these! I bet they are so pop-able. Once you pop, you can’t stop :)
Yum. I love the idea of rolling these n nuts.
HI! Love your site, your posts, your wit. Love love love….
any idea what the nutritional info is on these??
Yummy snack! Peanut butter is the bomb!
Ooooooh, these look excellent!
So I’m reading through your post and come to the bottom where it says, “related posts.”. It lists Crockpot stuffed Chicken Breasts.”. Oh, I see how they are related – breasts and balls. Now, that’s classy!
I think I might be totally obsessed with these too!
Those look so delicious and easy! Peanut butter, chocolate, oatmeal AND chia seeds? My favorites. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I WOULD make these right now, but I have what we call “no self-resistance” and I’m 99.9% sure I’d inhale them ALL before I left for work in 15 minutes. These look killer, girl.