Healthy Yummy PB Oat Balls

I have a thing for healthy & tasty ingredients rolled into balls. (Eating things in shapes makes it so much more civilized to eat excessive amounts of them, instead of sitting on the couch with a bowl and eating the healthy & tasty goo right from the spoon you used to stir it altogether.) Remember the Healthy Toasted Almond Date Balls (that happen to taste insane right from the freezer)? These are as good, or better. Remember the Healthy PB Balls? Yeah, those were great. So are these.

These balls are an instant favorite because of the following important reasons:
1. They taste healthy, yet very very good. Almost too good for you to believe point # 2.
2. They are actually quite good for you. Really. Oats… flax seeds… chia seeds (the wonder ingredient of the moment)… PB (protein!)… honey (healthy alternative to sugar)… dark chocolate (antioxidants all to hell)… say no more.
3. They are ridiculously easy to make. One bowl. A bit of elbow grease, yes, but one bowl.
4. They make a great breakfast. Or a great snack in that part of the afternoon when you don’t think you can make it another 15-minute interval without something sweet. Or dessert after dinner. Or midnight snack.
Clearly these are excellent and need to be made, so let me shut up and let’s let you stop reading. Start stirring, and eating (after rolling the goo into balls, of course). Who’m I kidding? I won’t judge you for eating right from the bowl on the couch. There’s a time and a place for everything.

Adapted from all recipe’s recipe…

1 cup rolled oats

1/2 cup natural creamy peanut butter

1/3 cup honey

1/4 cup dark chocolate, chopped

2 tablespoons flax seeds

2 tablespoons chia seeds

1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
1. In a large bowl, stir all ingredients together until well mixed.
2. Refrigerate for 30 minutes then scoop/roll into tablespoon-sized balls.
3. That’s it.
Tips:
- The oats… you can use quick-cooking oats if you’d like. I actually mix both old-fashioned rolled oat with quick-cooking ones- I don’t think it matters in this recipe.
- The flax seeds… I like to use coarsely ground ones, but you can use them whole if you’d like.
- The dark chocolate… I chop up chocolate chips so they aren’t as chunky, but you can keep them whole if you’d like. Feel free to use another kind of chocolate instead of dark, but know you’re adding more sugar (and therefore lovely sin) into the balls.
- Want these to taste a little less healthy? Use semi-sweet chocolate or milk chocolate instead of dark. Use “regular” peanut butter instead of natural, which often has sugar added in.
- Want to make these even healthier? Swap out the cocoa powder for your favorite chocolate-flavored protein powder. Add in a tablespoon of wheat germ if you’d like- and add in another teaspoon or so of honey or PB.
- These freeze well if wrapped tightly. Just thaw and eat- or chew from frozen.
- Enjoy!
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May 3rd, 2014 | More Sweets Please | 2 Comments | Tags: Chocolate, Oatmeal, Peanut Butter

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Lauren 05.03.2014

Jodi, my mom Milne met you a few weeks ago and raved about your brownies. She’s already baked us a batch and they were great. In the middle of the night last night I thought, as we bakers often do, that this morning I needed a recipe for peanut butter, chocolate oat balls. Voila, I check back on your blog and here they are! Thanks!
More Sweets Please

Hello Lauren! What great news that a) you serendipitously found the pb oat chocolate ball recipe, as if it came to you in a divine dream, b) that the brownies turned out, and c) that Milne is your mom (big fan, that I most certainly am!). Cheers to lots of late night baking moments to come :)