Healthy No Bake Energy Bites That Actually Taste Good

I know there are a lot of no-bake cookie recipes out there, but I've never been impressed with any of them. Some of them are "okay". Others I would rank as "edible". I never saved any of the recipes for them because I just wasn't terribly impressed.

THESE, my friends, are something different. THIS no-bake snack tastes good. Really good. They whip up quickly. You don't have to bake them, obviously, which is great for summertime when you don't want the oven heating up the house. You actually store them in the freezer, so they're a great cool snack (just set them out for 5ish minutes so they soften up a bit).

Plus ... check out those ingredients. Healthy! I may or may not have served these things for breakfast a couple of times. I found the base recipe from Amy's blog at Plain and Not So Plain (great blog for larger families, by the way). Amy says that having these energy bites on hand was key while she was losing 70lbs. When she was craving something sweet, she grabbed one of these instead of gorging on something unhealthy.

I tweaked the recipe ever so slightly based on our tastes and what I had on hand. I hope you enjoy!

Ingredients:
2 c. Old Fashioned Rolled Oats (Quick Oats would probably be fine)
1 c. Peanut Butter (Or your favorite nut butter- almond, cashew etc.)
2/3 c. Honey (Local, if possible!)
2 c. shredded unsweetened coconut
1 c. ground flax meal.
1 c. chocolate chips (alternative: dried fruit, butterscotch chips)
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

Line a couple of cookie sheets with parchment paper. Combine all ingredients and roll into little balls (this is easiest to do with slightly damp hands). Put the energy bites onto your lined cookie sheet, and put them in the freezer. Once they are frozen solid, you can transfer them to a ziplock bag and store them in the freezer. When you're ready to eat them, just pull them out and let them sit on a plate for 5ish minutes to help them soften up a bit. Enjoy!


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