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No Bake Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Balls with five ingredients that’s simple and easily customizable. A candy bar tasting goodie you can’t resist!
Do I ever have a candy bar tasting goodie for you today! Allow me to introduce you to healthy chocolate peanut butter protein balls. No baking required, only five ingredients, customizable, healthy and family-approved.
These chocolate peanut butter protein balls made with protein powder are easy to whip up for a quick and tasty snack that’s better for you! I love have one of these protein balls with a healthy hot chocolate smoothie.
To make them, all you have to do is get your food processor or blender out for these bad boys. But first, highly important! You must roast the peanuts before doing anything.
I mean if there is one thing you should do in life, it is roasting the peanuts. The roast brings out the oils in the nuts and just makes them tasting amazing! You don’t have to, but I highly recommend it.
After you roast then all you do is blend, roll, refrigerate and devour, and when I say devour I mean devour. These peanut butter chocolate protein bars taste just like candy bars. They taste like Snicker bars to me. They are a simple, awesomely healthy and tasty treat!
Just in case you’re looking for an excuse to make more healthy goodies, I recommend trying these chocolate peanut butter protein cookies, chocolate protein cookie dough and chocolate protein bar recipe next!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Balls
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanuts, unsalted, raw
- 1 cup dates , pits removed
- 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 scoop chocolate protein powder
- 5 tablespoons chocolate chips, or dairy free chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Place peanuts on a baking sheet and roast in the oven 5-7 minutes. Once you start to smell them, they are done. If the peanuts are shelled, carefully remove the shells. They will come off easily after roasting.
- Place peanuts in a food processor or blender and blend on high several minutes until it turns into peanut butter.
- To the peanut butter, add the dates. Blend until the dates and peanut butter are incorporated.
- Next add the apple sauce and protein powder. Blend the ingredients together until thoroughly combined.
- Roll the batter into 12 balls. You may need to wet your hands a little to keep the batter together. Insert 3 dark chocolate chips into each bite. Place in the refrigerator 1-2 hours to set before devouring!
Notes
- Keep bites in the refrigerator up to 12 days or in the freezer up to 60 days.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
My daughter has an autoimmune psoriatic arthritis so I’m constantly looking for recipes for her that have protein as well as taste good too….can’t wait to make these for her..she’s on the go a lot so needs the protein..this will help..thanks
I’m so sorry to hear about your daughter. I hope she enjoys the balls. They are one my all time favorite snacks. Make sure you use a really good protein powder!
I’d say it would taste like a Snickers bar. Peanut, chocolate, chewy, slightly sweet with the dates.