This No-Bake Energy Bites recipe is easy to make, full of feel-good ingredients, and irresistibly delicious!
Friends, have you tried this no bake energy bites recipe? ♡
It’s one of my all-time favorite recipes here on the blog, and one that I’ve personally made about a zillion times since I first published it here eight years ago.
I love these little energy bites because they are easy to make with simply pantry ingredients that I almost always have on hand. They are super easy to mix up and roll into cute little energy balls. (Or if you would like to save time, you can press the mixture into a parchment-covered baking dish, and then cut them into energy bars.) They are the perfect make-ahead recipe to keep on hand for healthy snacking or breakfasts. And most importantly, they are just irresistibly good.
Over the years, thousands of our readers have made and loved this classic energy bites recipe too. So I wholeheartedly recommend giving it a try!
No Bake Energy Bites Recipe | 1-Minute Video
No Bake Energy Bites Ingredients:
To make this no bake energy bites recipe, you will need the following ingredients:
- Old-fashioned oats: Also called rolled oats — these will serve as the base ingredient for our energy bites.
- Shredded coconut: Which I highly recommend toasting — either briefly in the oven or in a sauté pan — before adding to the energy bites. (Just be sure that the coconut has cooled before adding in the chocolate chips or the chocolate may melt.) Feel free to use either sweetened or unsweetened shredded coconut.
- Creamy peanut butter: I have used both traditional creamy peanut butter and natural creamy peanut butter in this recipe, and both work!
- Ground flaxseed: To add some extra protein, fiber and omega-3s to our energy bites.
- Semisweet chocolate chips: I photographed this recipe with standard-sized semisweet chips, but mini semisweet chips mix in easier.
- Honey: To add some natural sweetness and also help to bind the energy balls together.
- Vanilla extract: For a touch of extra flavor.
- Chia seeds (optional): Feel free to skip the chia seeds if you do not have any on hand. But I love adding in a tablespoon or so when I do!
How To Make Energy Balls:
To make these energy bites, simply…
- Stir everything together. Stir all ingredients together in a large mixing bowl until thoroughly combined.
- Chill. Cover the mixing bowl and chill in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours, or until the mixture is chilled.*
- Roll into balls. Roll into mixture into 1-inch balls.
- Serve. Then enjoy immediately! Or refrigerate in a sealed container for up to 1 week, or freeze for up to 3 months.
If you have trouble getting the energy balls to hold together, I recommend adding in more peanut butter to make the mixture a bit more sticky. Or if you would rather, you can also just press the mixture into a square baking dish to make flat energy bars instead of round energy balls.
Possible Energy Bites Variations:
There are all sorts of ways that you can customize this energy bites recipe, so feel free to get creative! For example, you are welcome to…
- Make energy bars: Press the mixture firmly into a parchment-lined 8×8-inch baking pan, chill, and then slice into energy bars (instead of rolling the mixture into energy balls).
- Use a different nut or seed butter: Use almond butter, cashew butter, sunflower seed butter, or any other nut/seed butters that you prefer in place of peanut butter.
- Omit the coconut: I’ve heard from many of you over the years who don’t love coconut. If that’s the case, no prob, just omit the coconut and add in an extra shake of oats instead.
- Add spices: If you would like to give these energy bites some extra flavor, feel free to add in a few pinches of ground cinnamon or some pumpkin pie spice.
More Healthy Snack Recipes:
Looking for more healthy snack inspiration? Here are a few of my favorite snack recipes!
- Chocolate No Bake Energy Bites
- Seed Cycling Energy Bites
- Easy Refrigerator Pickles
- Nooch Popcorn
- Beef Jerky
- Sea Salt and Vinegar Kale Chips
No Bake Energy Bites
Ingredients
- 1 cup old-fashioned oats
- 2/3 cup toasted shredded coconut (sweetened or unsweetened)
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup ground flaxseed
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips (or vegan chocolate chips)
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds (optional)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Stir everything together. Stir all ingredients together in a large mixing bowl until thoroughly combined.
- Chill. Cover the mixing bowl and chill in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours, or until the mixture is chilled. (This will help the mixture stick together more easily.)
- Roll into balls. Roll into mixture into 1-inch balls.
- Serve. Then enjoy immediately! Or refrigerate in a sealed container for up to 1 week, or freeze for up to 3 months.
Notes
Did you make this?Let me know how it turned out in the comments below!
Omg just tried these so good, instead of the coconut flakes I added crushed almonds! amazing thank you.
We’re so happy you enjoyed these, Dalal!
I do not have flaxseed with me and I can’t easily get to a store. Do you have any suggestions or is this even necessary?
Hi Kenli! No worries, you can leave the flax out and supplement with oats. We hope you enjoy these!
I have made these so many times and shared the recipe tons too.
Posted it on Facebook today because I made more and felt compelled to let others know a great place to find yummy recipes!
Thanks for sharing, we’re so glad you enjoyed them! :)
These are delicious! I used only 1/4c honey & they were plenty sweet. Did have troubles shaping into balls – not sure how much was due to less liquid or to not waiting for them to chill. Might add some coconut oil next time & see if that helps. These remind me of the raw granola I used to eat by the (small) bowlful when my mom made granola.
Btw, your yield says 3 dozen (must be really small balls!) but at the bottom of the recipe it says 20-25 balls (which is more like the yield I got).
Thanks for sharing, Julie, we’re so happy you enjoyed these! We’re sorry they were a bit tricky to shape — it does sound like they were on the drier side with less liquid, which can make them more difficult to work with. Coconut oil would definitely help! And oops, thank you for pointing out that yield inconsistency, we’ll fix that!
Great recipe! We make bars pretty often, but I like these ingredients & the idea of shaping them into 1″ bite size balls makes them more fun!
Awesome, so glad you like the recipe! :)
On my fitness pal, each bite is 107 calories if you made 30 bites per batch.
I made these today and they were easy and delicious! The next time I make them, I’m going to try using mini chocolate chips instead of regular size, and reduce the overall amount that I add- I made my balls smaller than the recipe called for (I ended up with a 35 ct instead of 20-25) so some of them had trouble sticking together with too many chips. I also omitted the chia seeds since I’m not fond of them. For storage, I put them 3 at a time into paper cupcake liners to make them easy to stack in tupperware in multiple layers without sticking. For the amount of time it took shaping and rolling them into balls, I might try pressing them out into a cookie sheet and cutting them into bars next time. Great recipe! I did enter it into the new feature on MyFitnessPal where you can enter recipes from scratch, and while it doesn’t have a share feature yet I hope it will soon so that I can come back and post nutritional information. Depending on how large you make them, they seem to have 80-138 calories in them (80 was for my 35 ct, 130 was for a hypothetical 20 ct).
Thanks for sharing with us, Jade — we’re glad to hear you enjoyed them!
I love this recipe but would really like to know the calorie content.
Hi Charlene! We’re sorry but we are unsure of the nutrition facts/amount of calories in this recipe. We currently are not publishing nutrition facts on the site, as the nutrition calculators available are not 100% accurate, and we never want to publish anything that might be misleading. However, a lot of our readers love the My Fitness Pal nutrition calculator, so feel free to try that for an estimate. We hope that helps!
I am curious about the calories per ball (I make mine about 1 inch as suggested) I am trying to use the calorie tracker on my fitbit and have no idea what these count as…. any help would be apreciated ?
PS these are amazing recently brought some to work and everyone loved them and all wanted the recipe
We’re so happy these were a hit with folks, Christina! As for the calories though, we’re sorry but we are not sure. We currently are not publishing nutrition facts on the site, as the nutrition calculators available are not 100% accurate, and we never want to publish anything that might be misleading. However, a lot of our readers love the My Fitness Pal nutrition calculator, so feel free to try that for an estimate. We hope that helps!
I have been making these (among other of your recipes) and sending them to my daughter and her sorority sistsers. One of the girls asked me the calorie count in these. Do you know? I told her I would check but that I don’t count calories, but concentrate on what goes into the food I make. Thanks! Love your recipes!
Hi Amy, we’re so glad to hear you enjoy the blog! As for the calorie count for these though, we’re sorry but we aren’t sure. We currently are not publishing nutrition facts on the site, as the nutrition calculators available are not 100% accurate, and we never want to publish anything that might be misleading. However, a lot of our readers love the My Fitness Pal nutrition calculator, so feel free to try that for an estimate. We hope that helps!