Oh please don’t be surprised! I did mention in yesterday’s post that I made the energy bites a couple of times. This was a variation of the recipe I tried. But don’t worry, this is the only variation for now.
For this recipe, I kept the quantity of the base items – oats, peanut butter and honey -the same as yesterday. The rest is just whatever I had in my pantry that day!
I had some dates that needed to be used up, so those were chopped and soaked in hot water for sometime. After draining and squeezing out the water, it came to about 1/4 cup. To avoid the water content, I would just chop them up or pulse them in a blender and add the next time. These didn’t last for a long time, so I needn’t have worried about the moisture from the dates.
To make it a chocolate version, I added a little unsweetened cocoa to the mix. The raw taste of cocoa felt a little strange initially. I did get used to it, but maybe I will add Nutella or hot chocolate for the chocolate flavor the next time.
Read on for the recipe.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup oatmeal
- 2/3 cup peanut butter*
- 2 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup butterscotch chips
- 1/3 cup raisins
- 1/4 cup dates, soaked in hot water (about 8 dates)
- 2 Tablespoons sunflower seeds
- 2 Tablespoons honey
- 2-3 tablespoons desiccated coconut, optional
*You can start with 1/2 cup and then add a couple more tablespoons extra if needed.
Method:
- Add all the ingredients to a bowl. Mix with a silicon spatula until everything is combined well.
- Using your hands take a small portion of the mix and roll into a ball. If the dough is sticky, refrigerate for a few minutes. Once you are done with all the dough, roll them over a thin layer of desiccated coconut to coat it. Refrigerate the balls to set firm.
- I got about 20 balls with this set of ingredients.
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Love this energy bites. The clicks are amazing..
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Wow!! The energy bites are simply awesome and the clicks are amazing.
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OMG Rajani, those balls are so sinful!..Imagine digging into the goodness of that..simply rocking girl..
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Gorgeous pictures you take, Rajani. Making me drool. These energy bites seem like a great idea….with chocolate and coconut I can make my family eat anything. Bookmarking!
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lovely clicks and tempting snack for me to make for the kids !
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Beautiful and tempting pics. i wanted to have a bite.
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That is a delicious ball of energy bites. They look so tempting.HAve bookmarked this and yesterdays post to try. The last pic is awesome!
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What a great recipe…..love to try it :)
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Fantastic ! I understand that we can just about use our pantry ingredients but truly some combinations work better than the others , and that’s what makes a good recipe .
Peanut butter works very well in these bites and I am bookmarking all your energy balls to try some time later.
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Omg, this is not fair at all, just cant take my eyes from this incredible energy bites, irresistible totally.
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I want to try them today itself but don’t have peanut butter. Frankly speaking, I have never used peanut butter thinking it would taste bad. I guess I should give these a try.
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Can’t take my eyes off the picture. Love the goodness of peanut butter and the butter scotch chips. Great share
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Yum!
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Seriously this is so addictive and yummy.. Love this energy bites..
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Love this version of energy bites. Sounds like a good option when the instant craving hits. Love it..
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These Wendy bites look soooo yum. Truly speaking, I just wanted to go to kitchen to try hands on them but I don’t have some of the ingredients sunflower seeds and peanut butter. So postponed it to I do my next grocery shopping šš
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Energy bites*
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