No Bake Chocolate Chip Energy Bites (10 Ingredients!)

These no bake energy bites are an easy and delicious snack. They’re bursting with flavor, loaded with chocolate chips, but are completely vegan, gluten free, and refined sugar free. You’ll need to make them to believe how amazing they are.

I’m a huge fan of healthy snacks that taste like dessert. Cake Batter Energy Balls, Chocolate Chip Banana Bread, Lemon Coconut Bliss Balls, I’m here for all of it.

These no bake energy bites are made with just 10 ingredients and give me cookie dough vibes, but without the stomach ache. I love them as a late night snack, but they’re perfect any time of day and especially for school lunches.

Energy bites, or energy balls, are an easy snack that usually have lots of healthy fats, protein, and natural carbohydrate to provide you lots of energy in one little bite.

No Bake Energy Bites Ingredients

• Oats: Help bind everything together and act as the base for the recipe.
• Coconut Flakes: Adds healthy fats and delicious flavor.
• Almond Butter: Helps moisten the dough and adds extra protein and healthy fats.
• Chia Seeds: For omega 3 fatty acids and protein.
• Ground Flax Seeds: To absorb extra moisture and add more omega 3’s.
• Maple Syrup : To help sweeten.
• Cinnamon: For extra flavor.
• Vanilla: I just love vanilla!
• Pinch of salt: For saltiness, duh.
• Chocolate Chips: It wouldn’t be a chocolate chip energy bite without chocolate chips.

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How to make chocolate chip energy bites

1. Add the rolled oats to a food processor and pulse a couple of times. You don’t want to end up with flour, so keep a some whole oats in the mix.
2. Add all of the remaining ingredients aside from the chocolate chips and process until everything is well combined. If the mixture is too sticky, add more oats, if it is too dry, add more nut butter or maple syrup and process again.
3. Add the chocolate chips and pulse a few times, just until the chips are broken up and distributed among the rest of the batter.
4. Use a spoon or a cookie scoop (I use the middle sized one of these, which I love!) to measure out 1 1/2 inch scoops and roll into balls.
5. You can roll them in shredded coconut, hemp hearts, more chocolate, or enjoy as is!

Recipe tips, tricks, and FAQ’s

• Energy bites do need to be refrigerated. These no bake energy bites will keep for 1-2 weeks in the fridge or 1 month in the freezer. If you keep in them in the freezer, let them defrost a bit before enjoying.

• I used almond butter in this recipe because it is high in vitamin E (source) for skin health, but any nut butter will work! Peanut butter is especially good in this recipe.

• To keep these whole food based, you can use cacao nibs in place of the chocolate chips, which will add a slightly bitter flavor to the final product.

• For extra protein, you can add a scoop of your favorite non dairy protein powder or collagen peptides to the batter after grinding up the oats.

Try these delicious snack recipes next!

• Clustery Banana Bread Granola
• Sweet Potato Smoothie (Tastes like pie!)
• Almond Butter Jelly Energy Bites

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