Energy Bites (10 Flavors!)

• servings: 20 servings
• active time: 20 minutes
• total time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

Base recipie-

1 cup rolled oats

1/4 cup ground flax or chia seeds

1/2 cup peanut butter or nut/seed butter of choice for the other recipes (see notes)

1/3 cup maple syrup (or honey)

1 tsp vanilla (optional)

Pinch of salt (or to taste)

Cookie Monster-

1/2 cup M & M's

No bake cookie-

Use almond butter for the base recipe

3 tbsp cocoa powder

1/4 cup mini chocolate chips

1 tsp vanilla extract (in addition to the base recipe)

Blueberry lemon-

Use almond or cashew butter in the base recipe

1/2 cup fruit juice sweetened dried blueberries

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp lemon zest

1 tbsp fresh lemon juice

Strawberry-

Use almond or cashew butter in base recipe

3/4 cup freeze dried strawberries (lightly crushed, or dried strawberries)

1 tsp ground cinnamon (or 1/2 teaspoon cardamom)

1 tbsp fresh lemon juice

1/8 tsp almond extract

Apple pie-

Use almond or cashew butter in the base recipe

3/4 cup freeze dried apples (or chopped dried apples)

2 tsp cinnamon

Pinch of nutmeg

1 tbsp fresh lemon juice

Cinnamon roll-

Use almond or cashew butter in the base recipe

1 tbsp ground cinnamon

1 tbsp fresh lemon juice

1/2 cup raisins or finely chopped pecans

Cherry pie-

Use almond or cashew butter in the base recipe

1/2 cup dried tart cherries (fruit juice sweetened, roughly chopped)

1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

2 tsp fresh lemon juice

1/8 tsp almond extract

Cake batter-

Use almond or cashew butter in the base recipe

2 scoops 6 tablespoons vanilla collagen or plant based protein

1 ¼ ounce package sprinkles (or 8 teaspoons)

1 tbsp fresh lemon juice

Chocolate chip cookie-

Use almond or cashew butter in the base recipe

1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

1/4 cup finely chopped nuts (optional)

1 tsp vanilla extract (in addition to the base recipe)

Directions

Add the rolled oats, ground flax or chia seeds to a medium-sized mixing bowl. If you're making a flavor besides the base recipe, add any spices (like cinnamon) at this time. Add the nut butter, maple syrup or honey, vanilla, and a pinch of salt.

Stir to combine thoroughly. From here, you can portion out the 5-ingredient version or choose a flavor and add the listed ingredients, mixing well.

Use a cookie scoop (I used a #40, which is about 4 teaspoons) or tablespoons from your silverware drawer to portion these out. The different flavors vary slightly, but you will generally have 18-22. A cookie scoop for 1 tablespoon (size 70 with OXO) will yield about 36 bites.

Notes

I added some pb fit to both for protien.

Sure you could add a scoop of any protein powder and just some extra honey to combine it better

Apple pie is way better frozen!

Each of these 10 recipes was tested with natural nut butter without salt or sugar added. I like to use peanut butter for the Monster Cookie because it’s a classic combination, but you can use any nut/seed butter you’d like. Almond and cashew butter are my favorite flavor options in the other flavors.

The texture of these energy bites varies depending on the different kinds of nut butter. If it seems too loose, wait 5 minutes or so to see if the flax meal/chia seeds soak up enough, or you can add another 1/4 cup of oats.

For the cake batter version, you may need to add more rolled oats or ground flax/chia seeds if you use the collagen. The mixture for this one is a bit looser, but not if you use protein powder, which firms it up.

You can add 2 scoops or 6 tablespoons any collagen or protein powder you’d like. If you use protein powder, you may need to add a touch of water/milk until the mixture comes together.

The nutrition facts were calculated for the Monster Cookie Energy Bites.

I use the natural sprinkle from Color Kitchen and the healthier (no dyes) M&M’s from Unreal.

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1 g
• Calories: 105 kcal
• Total Fat: 6 g
• Saturated Fat: 2 g
• Unsaturated Fat: 3 g
• Trans Fat: 0.01 g
• Cholesterol: 1 mg
• Sodium: 33 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 12 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1 g
• Total Sugars: 7 g
• Protein: 3 g