No-Bake Energy Bites- To Die For!

 

Ingredients:

For about 20 bites

• 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1/2 cup peanut butter (or other nut butter)
• 1/3 cup honey
• 1 cup coconut flakes
• 1/2 cup ground flaxseed
• 1 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Cool recipe from Smashed Peas and Carrots

As simple as it gets -

Mix all the ingredients together.

Refrigerate it for a while in order to make the mix firmer and easier to work with.

Make small balls, bite size, from the mix. Refrigerate.

Optional – Roll the balls in coconut, make it less sticky and adds a little twist too it.

 

PS-  You can substitute almost anything for any of the ingredients to work around food allergies, special diets, etc.  Soybutter, almond butter, cashew butter, sun butter, etc all works in place of peanut butter.  You can use creamed or liquid honey, or agave nectar or even maltitol syrup in place of the honey.  If you do not like or cannot eat coconut try some type of crushed cereal, wheat germ, whole wheat flour, granola, cocoa powder...the possibilities are really endless.  If you cannot find ground flaxseed you can buy it whole and grind it yourself in a coffee grinder or magic bullet or you can substitute any other dry ingredient in it's place.  Yes, the mini chocolate chips can be regular sized or carob or you can use raisins, cranberries, goji berries, or crushed nuts (almonds, cashews, walnuts, whatev) of some kind.