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!
OH HOLY GOODNESS! I made these today and shared with my friend!!! DELISH! Thanks for posting.
I made these balls for the first time this morning and I omitted the coconut and added an extra cup of oats. I also added a quarter of a cup of pecans bits and a quarter of a cup of sunflower seeds. I would also like to add a tip, to mix the wet ingredients together then at all the dry. it would make it easier when mixing all together
These energy bites are amazing!!!!
Linked from Pinterest. Can’t wait to try these! Thanks!
So far so GOOD! YUMMY! I tried one recipe so far and loved the taste. I am real excited to try all the different varieties that can be substituted for one another. Some stick together better than others. The only way to find that out is to try this recipe I received from a co-worker, Kristin! Thanks Kristin now I can’t top eating them.
I recently tried a recipe my mother found in her local paper. It is very similar to yours. I baked them for my 2-year old grandson who only likes “crunchy.” My recipe insstructs to leave out to dry. I have let them dry almost a week and though they are drying more–they are still like a soft cookie on the inside, they are still not crunchy. I got your recipe after asking for a crunchy non-bake cookie. I’m wondering if it is possible to have a crunchy unbaked recipe with the ingredients in the recipe.
Love these things!! They are so good. I do leave out the choc. chips only because I end up eating most of them myself, and I don’t want those extra calories. I also use cashew butter just because I love cashews. I also add a couple scoops of my vanilla protein powder. Taste is great!! I put them in my boys lunches for snacks and they love them.
These are great!!!! Instead of 1/2 cup chocolate chips — I bought the mini chocolate chips and used 1/4 cup. They were perfect!
These are so addictive and so good. I omit the coconut. I just made a batch and added corn flakes. Yummy!
Quite right these are perfect little nuggets of goodness! I can get mini carob chips at the Natural Grocers near me – going to whip up a batch today!
P.S. I live in CO and am in Breck, snowshoeing at the Nordic Center often – THANK YOU (and Courtney) for wearing helmets when you ski – it blows my mind that there are still “fashion fools” out there that simply won’t don the protection.