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!
Help! I just attempted to make these for a second time. First time I used regular honey, second time used raw honey. The mixture is delicious, but both times it was so try it was like trying to form granola into balls. I am an experienced cook/baker and it seems like I am the only one who had this problem. Would you recommend less oats? More PB maybe? I really want this to work… Thanks.
I would recommend more peanut butter if it’s not sticking together. Sometimes different PBs have different consistencies. Hopefully that will help! (And be sure to refrigerate the balls — it makes them easier to roll.)
how would you make them into cranola bars form?
Just press them into the bottom of a parchment-lined baking dish. Then refrigerate and slice once they have firmed up a bit.
~Ali
What is the nutritional value? Love them\
Is there any way you can add the carb count on some of your recipes this one sounds really tasty but I am on a low carb diet. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate your help.
Linda
Does anyone have the nutritional value for these? I want to log them in my my fitness pal but don’t know where to start..:( can anyone help? Know of a way to convert recipe to nutritional info? App for that? Thanks so much! I love these but want to log them!!!:)
Just type the recipe into the recipe tab and it should total up the nutrition info.
You can use the recipe calculator here: https://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp
They have BUNCHES of healthy recipes as well.
Just create a recipe on My Fitness Pal, and it will determine the calorie count based on the number of servings.
My recipe that I entered into My Fitness Pal, not including the chia seeds, with 24 servings, yielded 110 calories each.
I made these and on the My Fitness Pal app, there is a place to add your own recipe. I calculated this recipe based off of 20 bites and it came out to 118 calories each. Hope this helps!
You can use the recipe function. Add each ingredient individually then input the serving amount and the app will do the math for you. It’s a tab in the section when adding foods next to ‘recent’ ‘frequent’ ‘my foods’ and ‘meals’.
If you are a part of My Fitness Pal, all you would have to do is go to the Recipes portion in the Food diary, enter in the all the ingredients based off of what you personally used and their measurements, and then add how many servings you made. The bottom will show the how much calories, carbs, etc, are in the recipe total, and per serving!
For the nutritional value, you can use Myfitnesspal’s recipe section and input each ingredient. I make these into bars and cut them so it equals 15 bars, so 15 servings. I use almonds instead of chocolate chips, and PB2 in place of regular peanut butter. With those substitutions, they have 115 calories and 6 grams of fat per bar. Hope this helps!
You can create your own recipes in my fitness pal and figure out the calorie content of anything you make home made. Just add in all of the ingredients with the right amounts and my fitness pal figures out the calories for you.
Thank you for sharing this recipe. I made them and they turned out great. I used toasted walnuts instead of the coconut flakes.
I love these so much! They are a perfect, healthy, quick, easy, satisfying, convenient, fun-to-share, fun-to-make, portion-controlled snack. Thank you very much for sharing!
Love the energy bite. Do you have a calorie count?
I love these! I omitted the coconut and submitted sunflower seeds for the chocolate chips as I wanted to lessen the sugar content. My husband thought they were great too. I did moisten my hands before making the balls and that really helped.
I used the peanut butter chip/chocolate chip mixture just a little added flavor of the peanut butter. I was thinking of adding raisins instead of coconut the next time.