Healthy Peanut Butter Balls

Tasty, totally healthy, and easy. Check, check, check.

You know when you’re on a plane, and you’re easily engrossed in anything you have to read in front of you (to stave off the boredom on a flight to Winnipeg, for example), with the exception of the Sky Mall magazine which features hideous ornamental lawn frogs that strange people out there actually purchase for reasons other than jokes? Well, the July United in-flight magazine featured a recipe for Peanut Butter Power Balls, so in the midst of my boredom (and avoiding stuff I actually had to read for work on the plane), I ripped it out and adapted it a bit below.

Other than the fact that I screwed the recipe up on take 1 (click here for the gory details), it ended up alright (for an incredibly protein-packed, healthy snack). So if you’re hankering for a treat that’s not really a treat- but more of a dose of something healthy that happens to taste pretty excellent, then chow down on these. (But just a few at a time, because even though they’re “healthy”, PB does wallop on the fat. Good fat, but still. Fat. Tasty fat.)

1 1/2 cups nonfat dried milk

1 cup + 2 tablespoons peanut butter (smooth, natural/unsweetened)

1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons agave syrup or honey
1. In a large bowl, mix dried milk and peanut butter together. Add agave/honey and mix until well combined.
2. Scoop or roll tablespoon-sized amounts into balls and place on a baking sheet; refrigerate until firm.
3. Eat! (And store refrigerated or frozen until you finish.)
Tips:
- Use a stand mixer or hand mixer to make your life easier.
- Experiment with different nuts, just for fun. Use almond butter or cashew butter to keep life exciting.
- Add more PB if your mixture ends up crumbly and sandy like my first batch did (mostly because I gaffed and added way too much dried milk, and way too little PB. I take full responsibility for being overly confident and trying to wing the recipe without measuring anything… the original recipe said “4 parts dried milk, 3 parts PB and 1 part agave/honey… and I obviously couldn’t handle the math on the fly. Duh.)
- Peanut butter: it does need to be the unsweetened kind. If it IS sweetened, then decrease the agave/honey by a half and also decrease the dried milk by 1/2 cup, okay? Unless you want it S W E E T (I love you!), in which case you’ll just leave the recipe as is with your sugared-up PB. Buzz buzz, sugar bee.
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September 8th, 2012 | More Sweets Please | 2 Comments | Tags: Unidentifiable!

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Regina @ SpecialtyCakeCreations 09.08.2012

It sure sounds yummy although its healthy :) I like how you also post your mishaps. Actually inspires me to blog about some not so successful brownie macaroons after all :)
More Sweets Please

There’s no such thing as an unsuccessful Macaroon Brownie- only ones that you choose to binge on faster than others, right?! (Yes, mishaps happen often here. I’ll post a new one soon about Blondies that missed out on 2/3 of the sugar- a fatal error, made by moi. Sigh.) Yes, enjoy the Healthy PB Balls- they’re easy to make and easier to eat :).