peanut butter chocolate chip energy bites
peanut butter chocolate chip energy bites
hi friends!
back to snack basics today with peanut butter chocolate chip energy bites. they are sweet, chewy, slightly grown-up with flaked sea salt, and a super duper snack packed with peanut butter, peanuts, and protein powder. they’re the kind of thing that you can definitely buy in bar form BUT you can also not pay a dumb amount of money for a single bar and instead pop a few of these babes in your bag whenever you need them. please tell me it’s not just me who’s heavily sighing as i troll the grocery aisles lamenting how expensive things i love in these bizarre 2023 times are.
so, in the spirit of these budget-friendly new years days, we are arriving armed and prepared with snacks that are delicious, easy, and made with pantry staples that won’t make us shed a tear about our finances. cheers to frugality, high energy, and do-it-yourselfness this year.
a few things before we get started:
- this is a back to basics recipe! the kind of thing you don’t feel like you need but are so glad you have in your back pocket when you do.
- again, cannot stress enough, this is BASIC. you can jazz up energy bites in a zillion different way and i do heavily encourage you to do so, but for our hunger-energy-snack immediacy purposes here today, we’re keeping these simple.
- energy bites are a super easy snack to make allergen-friendly. you can swap the nuts, the peanut butter, the honey, anything. make it work for you!
- you can store these in the fridge or freezer for up to 2 weeks.
peanut butter chocolate chip energy bites
makes: 12 energy bites
prep time: 10 minutes
cook time: - just need to chill these bites!
1c peanuts (if allergic or legume-free, you can sub unsalted almonds)
3/4 pitted dates
2 scoops vanilla protein powder
1c natural creamy peanut butter (the drippy kind!)
1/4c honey
1/4c water (or more), to help combine
1/2c chocolate chips
pinch of sea salt
add the peanuts, dates, protein powder, peanut butter, honey, and salt into a food processor. pulse until a chunky dough starts to form, adding a teaspoon of water at a time to help make the dough a little stickier. continue to pulse and add water as needed until a sticky, formable dough comes together.
add the chocolate chips, and stir into the dough. using your hands, roll the dough into heaping tablespoon-sized balls and place in a dish to chill. once all the dough has been rolled into balls, top each with a little sea salt and chill in the fridge for at least an hour.