Hey everyone Sam here from Sugar Spun Run, and today I'll be showing you how to make easy energy bites.
I thought it might be a good idea to start off the new year on a less sugary note than usual. Today,
I have an easy somewhat healthy energy bite recipe for you today. Don't worry,
these are still delicious despite the lack of sugar. To begin,
you're going to need one and a half cups of old-fashioned oats.
We'll add these to a large bowl, along with 1/3 cup of sweetened coconut flakes.
You'll also need a half cup of creamy peanut butter, though
of course, you could use crunchy instead, and I am actually using a natural peanut butter for today's recipe.
Since we aren't using sugar we are going to be sweetening our energy bites with a quarter cup of honey instead.
Since today's recipe is a little bit healthier. I like to bump up the nutritional value by adding a tablespoon of flaxseed.
This is actually a heaping tablespoon of flaxseed. This is optional, but I like to include it in my energy bites.
We'll also add just an eighth teaspoon of salt,
and we're going to stir everything together until this mixture is nicely combined. Oh and I almost forgot,
you also want to add a teaspoon of vanilla extract. This is going to give your energy bites a really good flavor.
Don't leave it out like I almost just did.
All right, I'm glad we caught that. Now stir everything together until your ingredients are well combined.
So once you have everything nicely combined, you can add two tablespoons of mini chocolate chips.
Of course, you can leave this out if you don't like chocolate,
but I'm certainly not going to say no to a little extra chocolate.
I will just give everything one more good stir, so that the chocolate chips are evenly distributed through our energy bite mixture.
All right, now we're going to get a little messy and start scooping these energy bites into balls.
So I like to have a wax paper lined baking sheet ready that I'm going to put all the energy bites on, and
you can just scoop the dough out using a spoon, or using your hand.
I am going to be using a cookie scoop and I'm going to scoop about two teaspoons of the dough into a ball, and then
I'm just going to roll this between my hands to make a nice tight ball.
We'll just repeat until we've made all of this dough into a
baking sheet full of energy bites.
Now even though I'm using a baking sheet to hold all of these energy bites, we're not actually going to be baking them.
They're just going to need to chill and they'll be ready to eat, but I also like to add even more chocolate on top.
We'll talk about that in just a second. Once you've rolled out all of your energy bites,
We're gonna pop these in the fridge for about 10 minutes, and meanwhile, we're going to prepare that extra chocolate topping
I just told you about.
So you can enjoy those energy bites without any extra topping,
but what I like to do is I like to melt 2 ounces of chocolate, that's half of this chocolate bar.
So to do that, I'm just gonna break it up into small pieces,
into a microwave-safe bowl and you just want all the pieces to be about the same size.
That way they melt evenly and none of them burn and ruin your chocolate, which would be bad news.
So I'm just gonna pop this in the microwave now and heat it in 15 second intervals.
Make sure you stir really well every 15 seconds and just heat the chocolate until it's completely melted.
So once you've melted your chocolate and your energy bites have had 10 minutes to chill, now,
we're just going to drizzle that chocolate evenly over the energy bites.
Now I like to keep my energy bites refrigerated anyway, it helps keep them nice and firm.
So I'm just gonna pop these back in the fridge let that chocolate set and then your energy bites are ready to enjoy and
That is all there is to making these super easy energy bites at home.
I hope you guys enjoy today's recipe. If you did, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Thank you
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