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!
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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!
This is a really good recipe! Though, I used mini chocolate chips instead of the regular ones. Thanks a bunch for posting! Thumbs up from me! (^_^)b
Lisa Dircks
On the web site Calorie counter I broke down the recipe this is for 25 balls:
Oatmeal 12 calories
coconut flakes 11 calories
Peanut butter 30 calories
Chocolate chips 18
calories flax seed 17
calories honey 14 calories
vanilla 0 calories
for a total of 103 calories each, 6.2 grams of fat, 10.5 carbs,dietary fiber 1, sugars 6.2, protein 2.7. My daughter and son-in-law just love these. I’m going to try them soon.
I just made this recipe so that my husband wont have any excuse to buy snacks from the vending machine at work! lol. I also used the app on his phone to figure out the calories. I made this EXACT recipe using skippy creamy pb and sweetened generic coconut flakes. I used my cookie scoop to make balls. Which turned into 20 bite size power/energy balls. Anywho…each ball would add up to about 134 calories. Hope that helps those of you using this recipe!
Do you know have many calories are in each one?
Sound really yummy!! I would imagine a finely graded carrot would be a nice ingredient too
These are great!!!! I have made them many times now and each time I put something different in them. I like to add Rice krispies and have added raisins, chopped dates, Nuts, marshmallows, dried cranberries. The dates were good however they get a little hard in the fridge. I like to add a butterscotch & chocolate chips mix. Great recipe!
Keep them in your freezer and pop one in your hot plain oatmeal for a sweet surprise!
These are amazing! I accidentally melted my chocolate chips the first time I made them (I had to warm up my honey to get it out of the bottle) and I liked them so much, I did it again tonight. I ate my first batch in 5 days – we’ll see how long this next batch lasts.
My trainer boyfriend & I have been making these for 2 months with tons of variations! Sometimes with sliced almonds, omit coconut, with & without flaxseed, and we always use natural peanut butter. I use the dark chocolate chips since they are “better” for you (lol). We have also been adding chocolate protein powder (mixed with water to a pudding consistency). And we have been using the steel cut oats also at times. We mix it all up and press it into a casserole dish, chill and make nice thick bars. These are amazing and my 3 boys love them as snacks too! It’s so great that you can vary what you want in them and know exactly what you are eating, without all those preservatives and unnecessary ingredients there seem to be in foods these days!
Would sugar free maple syrup work in place of the honey? I can’t eat the latter so I was curious.