Name: Peanut Butter Oatmeal Balls
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 cup rolled oats (regular or gluten free); 1/2 cup natural creamy peanut butter (almond butter will work if you have a peanut allergy); 1/2 cup flaxmeal; 2 T 100% pure maple syrup; 2-3 T honey; 1 tsp vanilla extract; ¼ c chocolate chips; ½ c shredded coconut (optional); ¼ tsp sea salt

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These Simple and No Bake Peanut Butter Oatmeal Balls are full of hearty oats, peanut butter, chocolate chips and a few other ingredients. Simple and delicious, this recipe is the fuel you will love to energize you throughout the day!

Peanut butter oatmeal balls with chocolate chips in bowl.

What you need to make these:
How to make these oatmeal balls:
Notes:
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Balls Recipe

This recipe was originally published November 2014. Photos and copy were updated June 2020.

This is one of my all time favorite snacks and I have been making these Peanut Butter Oatmeal Balls going on 10 years.

There is nothing better than a little bite of oats with peanut butter. Period.

No bake. Great fuel. And easy to whip up. So I basically have these in the fridge about 90% of the time. For a fun twist on these flavors, these No Bake Cookie Butter Cookies are great too!

What you need to make these:

I am not a huge fan of honey, and a lot of similar recipes call for honey. So I opt for a touch of maple and a touch of honey to balance it out. I find that combination of flavors to be PERFECT.
Natural creamy peanut butter, the drippy kind works the very best in my opinion.

How to make these oatmeal balls:

Combine the dry ingredients. If you are adding coconut, add it in at this point as well. (steps 1 and 2)
Add in the peanut butter, maple, honey, vanilla and stir well to combine. (steps 3 and 4)

Oats and dry ingredients in mixing bowl.

Fold in chocolate chips. For best results I like to freeze this for 10-20 minutes before rolling into balls. It makes it so much easier to form. (steps 5 and 6)

Oats and peanut butter in mixing bowl with chocolate chips.

It will surely depend on how big you make these, but I typically end up with about 15 Peanut Butter Balls when I whip these babies up. You could make them into bars if you would like as well.

Notes:

I use creamy, natural peanut butter–the kind you have to stir. I find this kind of peanut butter to be the best for recipes like this. It is so much easier to stir and incorporate into the mixture.
For vegan oatmeal balls, use all maple and make sure your chocolate chips are vegan as well. For gluten free, use gluten free oats.
Seriously, change up the chocolate chips each time you make these peanut butter energy bites. I am obsessed with using white chocolate chips lately. Sometimes, I don’t use any chips either ( I know, I know) just to have something different. You can also add a drizzle of chocolate instead on top.
If you are having a hard time forming these energy bites into balls, pop them in the freezer for 10-15 minutes. That usually helps a bit.

Peanut Butter Oatmeal balls in bowl on coaster.

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