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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!
No Bake Energy Bites Recipe | 1-Minute Video
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 they have cooled before adding in the chocolate chips, or the chocolate may heat and turn a bit melty.)
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.
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.
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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.
Prep Time: The prep time listed does not include time for the mixture to chill. To speed up the chilling, I recommend spreading the mixture out on a small baking sheet and popping it in the freezer for 20-30 minutes until the mixture is cool.
Why handle balls if you don’t have to, right? Pressed mixture into 13×9 glass pan. cut squares as needed. also swapped coconut and wheat germ/flaxseed for 2/3 c. sunflower seeds and 1/8 c. extra chia seeds. Added the choc chips and sunflower seeds to a processor so I can work with finer mixture. Lastly, poured 2 tbsp of maple on the surface, worked around the pan by leaning it around like a olive oil on a frying pan.
Loved your recipe! Honey with peanut butter is great with anything! I had never experimented with flax seeds and really enjoyed the taste. Thanks so much!
I was wondering the same thing. Think you can put all of the ingredients into “recipes” on My Fitness Pal and it’ll calculate it -you just determine how may servings it yields. Hope that helps.
Kyle —
just add up from each ingredient you use and you will have an accurate picture
These are amazing and so easy to make but what is the nutritional content? I would like to enter these into my app to track meals/exercize ect. but I didn’t see that info.
I calculated the calorie count as I made these, using wheat germ, honey, mini chocolate chips, and left out the chia seeds. Making 18 bites total I came up with 130 calories each. If anyone calculated the rest of the nutritional values I would be interested…
These are extremely easy and taste fantastic! Thankful for a healthy ‘cookie’ to keep my tummy satisfied. I got 28 balls and mine are approx 88 calories each.
Someone may have posted this substitution idea already, but I ommited chocolate chips and used a Tbsp of cocoa instead. Gave even more of a no-bake taste, maybe a bit healthier, and yummy!
Instead of dumping everything and trying to mix, I first mixed all the dry ingredients together. Next, in a seperate bowl, the peanut butter, honey and vanilla til well mixed then stirred into the dry ingredients. I toasted sesame seeds and added a good tablespoon to the mixture. After rolling the balls, I dipped the tops into the remaining sesame seeds and flattened slightly. Deeeeliciou s!!!
I made these tonight and didn’t use the chia seeds but did use amber agave nectar. They came out great and stuck together just fine! I too am trying to figure out the calorie count. My batch made 32. I’m guessing from some of the post below that I should probably count about 85 calories each
Love these so much. They are wonderful for snacks at work. I used almond butter and left out the coconut. I prefer a smoother taste so ground up the oatmeal and chocolate. They turned out amazing!
Thanks so much for this recipe. I made a batch and keep them in the freezer; I thaw two in the fridge overnight and devour them in the morning as pre-workout fuel. They are delicious and filling.
3 things I did different, I did not have honey so I used 1/3 C maple syrup, regular peanut butter and I used wheat germ.
When I added everything up for WW points, and I made 26 balls it was 3 points per ball. I keep mine in the freezer as they taste better more cold than just in the fridge. So delish!!!
thank you for this wonderful recipe. I was browsing for something healthy. Made these for my tennis team and they devoured them. Everyone asked for the recipe. I did omit the coconut. Made one batch w/cinnamon chips. My teenagers said these are the best. I love how simple it was to make these.
Just wanted to thank you for the healthier no-bakes recipe. I am an addict to them, since I was a young girl. I make them all the time, but now I can make them with less guilt using this much healthier and more natural ingredients that you have suggested. The funny thing is, I love all of the ingredients, but have never thought to add them to the no-bakes.
I just actually had a brilliant thought. I’ve made these before and they’re awesome; I think this time I might make a big mixture and spread it in a non stick cake pan and make them into bars instead.
these look delicious, thanks! have you had experience (good or bad) with freezing these? i intend to double the recipe and freeze most of them if you think they’ll freeze okay.
Started to make something similar to these a couple of months ago and we have to have these in the refrierator now all the time. Sometimes I put a tablespoon or two of cocoa in them. Dried cherries, raisins, chopped toasted almonds. Every batch is different!
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.
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 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!
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!!!:)
Krista —
Just type the recipe into the recipe tab and it should total up the nutrition info.
Becca —
You can use the recipe calculator here: https://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp
They have BUNCHES of healthy recipes as well.
Allison Holtkamp —
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.
Rachel —
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!
Jessica —
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’.
Stephanie —
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!
Kristy —
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!
Mary —
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.
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
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.)
Looking the the Nutrition Facts on these.. they are awesome… Kids love the.. Following a strict lifestyle change and nutritional facts would be great..
Thanks
I just made these with almond butter and I had a dark chocolate bar, so I just chopped some of that up. No coconut or chia seeds, but they were delicious! I ate two as soon as I was done and the little remains that I couldn’t roll up lol thanks for the recipe!
These were awesome! I am an EMT and spend my day on an ambulance. These are easy to pack and require no utensils. Just an FYI, flaxseed will help regulate your digestive system so be careful when and where you choose to eat them.
How many of these can you eat at a time? and do you think they are ok to eat if you are pregnant?
Anne Pumfery (@scientistanne) —
There is nothing listed in the ingredients that would prevent a pregnant woman from eating them. As with anything, eat in moderation. I guess how many would depend on how many calories are in one ball. Likely 1 or 2 wouldn’t be excessive.
Janice —
Is your first question a question or a challenge, Dawn? Lol…I just made my first batch, and if my husband and I can put our spoons down long enough to let them cool in the fridge, I might get to form one actual ball, lol…delicious!!!!!!
These have been my go-to snack for at least a year. I make a batch when I know I’ll need energy throughout the week. In fact, I’m even making them for a networking even tonight! I can’t wait to try your other energy ball recipes.
My family loves these, but I was wondering if you have any nutritional info you can post or send me.
Why handle balls if you don’t have to, right? Pressed mixture into 13×9 glass pan. cut squares as needed. also swapped coconut and wheat germ/flaxseed for 2/3 c. sunflower seeds and 1/8 c. extra chia seeds. Added the choc chips and sunflower seeds to a processor so I can work with finer mixture. Lastly, poured 2 tbsp of maple on the surface, worked around the pan by leaning it around like a olive oil on a frying pan.
Loved your recipe! Honey with peanut butter is great with anything! I had never experimented with flax seeds and really enjoyed the taste. Thanks so much!
These r great!!! Can I get the nutrition facts please???
Does anyone know the nutritional value of these? Have seen a few people ask but have not seen an answer.
What is the nutritional value? Calories?
I was wondering the same thing. Think you can put all of the ingredients into “recipes” on My Fitness Pal and it’ll calculate it -you just determine how may servings it yields. Hope that helps.
just add up from each ingredient you use and you will have an accurate picture
These are amazing and so easy to make but what is the nutritional content? I would like to enter these into my app to track meals/exercize ect. but I didn’t see that info.
I calculated the calorie count as I made these, using wheat germ, honey, mini chocolate chips, and left out the chia seeds. Making 18 bites total I came up with 130 calories each. If anyone calculated the rest of the nutritional values I would be interested…
Nutrition Facts
No-bake energy bites
25 Servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 106.2
Total Fat 6.1 g
Saturated Fat 2.1 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.9 g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.3 g
Cholesterol 0.0 mg
Sodium 22.2 mg
Potassium 139.3 mg
Total Carbohydrate 11.2 g
Dietary Fiber 2.1 g
Sugars 6.3 g
Protein 2.4 g
Vitamin A 0.0 %
Vitamin B-12 0.0 %
Vitamin B-6 1.6 %
Vitamin C 0.3 %
Vitamin D 0.0 %
Vitamin E 0.9 %
Calcium 0.9 %
Copper 2.1 %
Folate 2.3 %
Iron 2.7 %
Magnesium 3.0 %
Manganese 6.9 %
Niacin 0.3 %
Pantothenic Acid 0.6 %
Phosphorus 1.8 %
Riboflavin 0.6 %
Selenium 0.6 %
Thiamin 1.3 %
Zinc 1.1 %
These are very very good, I didn’t have any coconut flakes and I added raisins and used maple syrup, NOM!
These are extremely easy and taste fantastic! Thankful for a healthy ‘cookie’ to keep my tummy satisfied. I got 28 balls and mine are approx 88 calories each.
I love these! Has anyone tried to freeze them? We’re expecting twins and I would love to be able to have these ready to go when the babies get here.
What is the nutritional info and calorie count on the delicious no bake energy bites?
Someone may have posted this substitution idea already, but I ommited chocolate chips and used a Tbsp of cocoa instead. Gave even more of a no-bake taste, maybe a bit healthier, and yummy!
Instead of dumping everything and trying to mix, I first mixed all the dry ingredients together. Next, in a seperate bowl, the peanut butter, honey and vanilla til well mixed then stirred into the dry ingredients. I toasted sesame seeds and added a good tablespoon to the mixture. After rolling the balls, I dipped the tops into the remaining sesame seeds and flattened slightly. Deeeeliciou s!!!
I made these tonight and didn’t use the chia seeds but did use amber agave nectar. They came out great and stuck together just fine! I too am trying to figure out the calorie count. My batch made 32. I’m guessing from some of the post below that I should probably count about 85 calories each
love these!! I added banana instead of coconut. fantastic!
Love these so much. They are wonderful for snacks at work. I used almond butter and left out the coconut. I prefer a smoother taste so ground up the oatmeal and chocolate. They turned out amazing!
Thanks so much for this recipe. I made a batch and keep them in the freezer; I thaw two in the fridge overnight and devour them in the morning as pre-workout fuel. They are delicious and filling.
I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this before. Definitely trying it! Love all the ideas in the comments!
Me and my friend made these and are delicious! i would recommend refrigerating mix for 45 min – hour because it was very soft and hard to mould.
3 things I did different, I did not have honey so I used 1/3 C maple syrup, regular peanut butter and I used wheat germ.
When I added everything up for WW points, and I made 26 balls it was 3 points per ball. I keep mine in the freezer as they taste better more cold than just in the fridge. So delish!!!
thank you for this wonderful recipe. I was browsing for something healthy. Made these for my tennis team and they devoured them. Everyone asked for the recipe. I did omit the coconut. Made one batch w/cinnamon chips. My teenagers said these are the best. I love how simple it was to make these.
Just wanted to thank you for the healthier no-bakes recipe. I am an addict to them, since I was a young girl. I make them all the time, but now I can make them with less guilt using this much healthier and more natural ingredients that you have suggested. The funny thing is, I love all of the ingredients, but have never thought to add them to the no-bakes.
Thanks again.
Linda
Any idea what the calorie count is like?
Although it depends on what products you used for the recipe, here is the nutrition information from the brands I used.
25 balls
Per 1 ball= 92 calories, 5g fat, 11g carbs, 0.5g fiber, 2g protein, 16mg sodium, 6g sugar.
Hope that helps!
very helpful… Thank You. They are very good!
I just actually had a brilliant thought. I’ve made these before and they’re awesome; I think this time I might make a big mixture and spread it in a non stick cake pan and make them into bars instead.
these look delicious, thanks! have you had experience (good or bad) with freezing these? i intend to double the recipe and freeze most of them if you think they’ll freeze okay.
thanks! :)
I freeze mine all the time and they’re just as good as fresh!!!
I substituted cinnamon chips. Fortunately available this time of year. I also added a scoop of chocolate protein powder. Yum!
Started to make something similar to these a couple of months ago and we have to have these in the refrierator now all the time. Sometimes I put a tablespoon or two of cocoa in them. Dried cherries, raisins, chopped toasted almonds. Every batch is different!
Woops, I also scoop them with a cookie scoop.
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.
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.
Love the energy bite. Do you have a calorie count?
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!
Thank you for sharing this recipe. I made them and they turned out great. I used toasted walnuts instead of the coconut flakes.
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.
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
What is the nutritional value? Love them\
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
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.)
Looking the the Nutrition Facts on these.. they are awesome… Kids love the.. Following a strict lifestyle change and nutritional facts would be great..
Thanks
What can you use in place of the coconut? I am allerigic to coconut, but everything else in the recipe sounds great.
You can omit the coconut if you’d like and just add in some extra oats. :)
Ow many calories are I these balls?
I just made these with almond butter and I had a dark chocolate bar, so I just chopped some of that up. No coconut or chia seeds, but they were delicious! I ate two as soon as I was done and the little remains that I couldn’t roll up lol thanks for the recipe!
These were awesome! I am an EMT and spend my day on an ambulance. These are easy to pack and require no utensils. Just an FYI, flaxseed will help regulate your digestive system so be careful when and where you choose to eat them.
i loved this! but instead of peanut butter i used nutella!! tasted awesome!!
FYI everyone, these are loaded with sugar. Great for bodybuilders and athletes. Bad for the average person that just wants to “lose weight”.
How many of these can you eat at a time? and do you think they are ok to eat if you are pregnant?
There is nothing listed in the ingredients that would prevent a pregnant woman from eating them. As with anything, eat in moderation. I guess how many would depend on how many calories are in one ball. Likely 1 or 2 wouldn’t be excessive.
Is your first question a question or a challenge, Dawn? Lol…I just made my first batch, and if my husband and I can put our spoons down long enough to let them cool in the fridge, I might get to form one actual ball, lol…delicious!!!!!!
I have made these for my daughters volleyball team and they love them. I add a scoop of chocolate protein powder to the recipe!
These have been my go-to snack for at least a year. I make a batch when I know I’ll need energy throughout the week. In fact, I’m even making them for a networking even tonight! I can’t wait to try your other energy ball recipes.