mix n match energy ball recipe
This mix-and-match energy ball recipe gives you a simple formula, oats, nut butter, sweetener, add-ins, and fiber, so you can create endless no-bake flavor combinations with what you have on hand. Each ball stays under 1.5g of added sugar and is ready in 15 minutes.
Ingredients
- 1 cup oats regular or quick cooking
- ⅓ cup "butter": peanut or nut butter tahini, or seed butter
- 2 tbsp honey or maple syrup or corn syrup OR 1/4 cup date paste
- 3 tbsp chunky add-ins chocolate chips, raisins, coconut, etc
- 2 tbsp fibre: ground flax chia seeds, or psyllium
- 2 tbsp whey isolate optional*
- 2 tsp water ONLY IF NEEDED!
Instructions
By hand:
- Add all ingredients (except the water) to a bowl and stir to combine.
- Using a small cookie scoop, scoop out and form into a ball. Don't try to squish the dough too hard with your hands. The recipe is light on the sticky syrup so you need to gently coax them into a ball shape. Now is not the time to be a perfectionist in making the spheres!
- Add water, 1 tsp at a time, if the mixture is too crumbly to stick together at all.
- Allow to firm up in the fridge.
With food processor:
- Measure the oats into the food processor and turn on high. Process until oats are nearly a flour consistency.
- Add the rest of ingredients to a bowl (except the water) and stir to combine.
- Using a small cookie scoop, scoop out and form into a ball. Don't try to squish the dough too hard with your hands. The recipe is light on the sticky syrup so you need to gently coax them into a ball shape. Now is not the time to be a perfectionist in making the spheres!
- Add water, 1 tsp at a time, if the mixture is too crumbly to stick together at all.
- Allow to firm up in the fridge.
Notes
*Adding 2 tbsp of whey isolate will add 0.5g of protein to each energy ball.
Nutrition
Calories: 135kcal
Servings: 18 -20 energy balls
Calories: 135kcal
