No Bake Peanut Butter Coconut Balls – Vegan Gluten Free Protein Balls!
No Bake Peanut Butter Coconut Balls: this healthy energy bites recipe yields chewy, sweet ‘n nutty vegan protein balls with just 6 ingredients! Easy, Gluten Free Protein Balls!
“Peanut butter; it just fills the cracks in the heart.”
Have you ever seen that meme? Kevin James is passionately & a bit sadly smearing his sliced bread with rivers and rivers of peanut butter. Like, who hasn’t needed peanut butter like that?
Whether you think chocolate, coconut or perhaps almond butter should replace “peanut butter” in that statement, you get the gist of the sentiment.
And, I mean, if you think of delicious peanut butter as the glue that holds everything together, then I’m RIGHT THERE WITH YOU. Just sayin’. 😉
Today’s no bake peanut butter coconut balls recipe is not only an ode to peanut butter, it’s THE way that we prove peanut butter and coconut go together. And how! Are you a fan of the coconut peanut butter combo?
In case you haven’t tried/aren’t sure about the whole peanut butter coconut thing, allow me to suggest: 4 Ingredient No Bake Peanut Butter Coconut Oatmeal Cookies, Peanut Butter Coconut Oatmeal Cookies and these No Bake Peanut Butter Coconut Energy Bites.
There. That’s settled! Now you know peanut butter and coconut go together. 😉 Now we can chat about healthy energy bites, gluten free protein balls, and all kinds of coconut peanut butter balls that sooo qualify as the best vegan protein balls ever. Starting: right now!
My No Bake Peanut Butter Coconut Balls are made with just 6 ingredients. These healthy energy bites are perfectly sweet ‘n nutty, made with whole, gluten free vegan ingredients, and just about the tastiest healthy energy bite you could dream of. Curious yet? Read on to learn more about these yummy protein balls!
How to Make No Bake Peanut Butter Coconut Balls
These no bake peanut butter coconut balls are super simple, quick ‘n easy to make! They’re the best vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free healthy energy bites!
- Step 1: Whisk together creamy peanut butter and maple syrup.
- Step 2: Add in coconut, gluten free oats, flaxseed and chopped peanuts.
- Step 3: Fold together until thoroughly mixed.
- Step 4: Scoop, drop and roll the coconut peanut butter mixture to make healthy energy bites! Enjoy.
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How long do energy bites last in the fridge? How long do protein balls last in the fridge?
- Whether you call these no bake peanut butter coconut balls “healthy energy bites” or “protein balls”, the fact remains: they last in the fridge for 2 weeks. You can keep the energy bites longer, they’ll just be firmer and drier as time goes on.
Can you freeze power balls?
- Yes, with varying results. These coconut peanut butter balls can be frozen. Just make sure to thaw them before enjoying.
Are protein bites good for you?
- Depends on the recipe. These peanut butter and coconut balls are the perfect gluten free protein balls because they’re packed with healthy ingredients and refined sugar-free.
Do you have peanut butter energy cookies or gluten free vegan protein-rich bars?
Yes! Try my 3 ingredient No Bake Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies, 4 Ingredient No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Oatmeal Bars, Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Banana Breakfast Cookies, Healthy Coconut Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies, 3 Ingredient Kind Bars Recipe – Almond Coconut.
Where do I find ground flaxseed?
- Here’s a link to the golden ground flaxseed I used in this recipe.
So… did I convince you? Are you all about the peanut butter coconut balls now? Or are you still blushing at you know what and need me to call these energy bites instead. 😉 Teehee! You know I just love joking around with you… after all, what’s the point of these kitchen adventures if they’re not fun? 🙂 Thanks for joining me today—it’s truly an honor. ‘Til the next one…
Sending you all my love and maybe even a dove, xo Demeter ❤️
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No Bake Peanut Butter Coconut Balls – Vegan Gluten Free Protein Balls!
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 20-25 bites 1x
Description
No Bake Peanut Butter Coconut Balls: this healthy energy bites recipe yields chewy, sweet ‘n nutty vegan protein balls with just 6 ingredients! Easy, Gluten Free, Protein Balls!
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
- 3/4 cup natural, unsalted creamy peanut butter*
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
Dry Ingredients
- 3/4 cup unsweetened coconut shreds or flakes
- 3/4 cup gluten free rolled oats
- 1/4 cup ground flaxseed
- 1/4 cup finely chopped peanuts or desired add-ins (chocolate chips, raisins, etc.)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients: peanut butter and maple syrup.
- Add in all of the dry ingredients: coconut, oats, flax and peanuts.
- Using a rubber spatula, stir and fold until very well mixed.
- Using a small or medium cookie scoop, scoop mixture into your hands and roll into bites. Enjoy!
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Notes
- *Natural peanut butter works best for this recipe; the measurements were calculated based on the very drippy, liquidy nature of natural PB (the kind I use only has 1 ingredient: peanuts).
- Store in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.
- Freezing Instructions: these bites keep well in the freezer for up to a month.
- Nutrition Information: is an estimate based on the best-selling, most common brands per ingredient. Also, it’s estimated based on 25 servings per recipe, made with peanuts.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 0 min
- Category: Snacks, Dessert, Breakfast
- Method: No Bake
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bite
- Calories: 92
- Sugar: 3g
- Sodium: 1mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3g
- Carbohydrates: 7g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
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Tools for No Bake Peanut Butter Coconut Balls & Healthy Energy Bites
Click on the links below for the tools I used to make these no bake peanut butter coconut balls. I love using these tools to make all of my healthy energy bites recipes!
- Ground Flaxseed: the flax not only helps bind these gluten free protein balls together, it’s got great health benefits too.
- Natural, Unsalted Peanut Butter: an essential (and delicious) ingredient for these peanut butter coconut balls.
- Medium Cookie Scoop: a fantastic cookie scoop that makes rolling the dough into no bake balls a breeze!
- Small Cookie Scoop: this smaller cookie scoop is great for portion control. 😉
- Coconut Flakes: I love the way this coconut adds that extra bit of crunch to the no bake energy balls.
Can you use almond butter and almonds instead of peanuts and peanut butter?
Great question Gina! Actually, I just posted the almond butter version on the blog. 😉 https://beamingbaker.com/no-bake-almond-butter-coconut-bites-vegan-gluten-free/
They look amazing, making them now my 15 mns lovessss peanut butter but turned out im out of flaxseed ? Any suggestions? Also using jif peanut butter and no syrup so will make with honey.
Hi Sally! I’m so excited that you’re going to make these. 🙂 As for the flaxseed: I’m not sure, I’ve never made this recipe without it. However, since you’re using Jif instead of natural, drippy peanut butter, it might just work out (since Jif is so much thicker and drier than natural PB). Again, I’ve never tried it before, so fingers crossed! As for subbing the maple syrup with honey: that will work just fine. Good luck & let me know how it turns out! Thanks for stopping by, Sally. 🙂
I could eat this by the spoon! In fact, when I made a batch, I totally ate some of it with a spoon instead of molding it all into balls. Way worth it. Delicious!
That’s awesome Christina! So glad to hear that you enjoyed it. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
Hi Demeter, these bites look amazing. You have awesome pictures. I love peanut butter and coconut. I was just wondering do you think these would work without the Maple Syrup?
Thank you so much, Stephanie. 🙂 I’ve never tried this recipe without the maple syrup. You might have some success with subbing the maple syrup with 1) honey or 2) more peanut butter. I’m not sure though. Let me know if you do try it and how it turns out. Thanks for stopping by, Stephanie. 🙂
These are awesome! I love making snack bites!
Thanks Shannon! Enjoy. 🙂
Oh I LOVE peanut butter so much, I make peanut butter cookies wayyyy to often. I love this no bake recipe, they look delicious!
Peanut butter is truly the best! Now you’ve got me in the mood for making PB cookies. Yum! Thanks for stopping by Katie. 🙂
demeter, just made these and they are DELICIOUS! even my fiancé, who loves peanut butter but hates coconut, could not stop eating these. these will be great energy bites for right before the gym! you are quickly becoming one of my favorite food bloggers!!! please keep these awesome recipes coming!
Lucy, that’s wonderful! 🙂 I’m SO HAPPY that you enjoyed it! You know a recipe is good if it can convince an ingredient-hater to enjoy it. 😉 Thank you so much for following the blog! You are quickly becoming one of my favorite readers! 😉 xo
Oh my goodness, these look amazing!!! I want to make these for sure!
Thanks Kristy! 🙂 If you do, let me know how they turn out. Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
Demeter, these look AMAZING! I’m sure they taste amazing too if they’re anything like your best pb coconut cookies.
Peanut butter is the way to “PEANUT BUTTER and Ellie”‘s heart! And chocolate. Lots of chocolate. 😉
I love that gif. I love ANY gifs that have to do with food I like though!
Okay now I need peanut butter!
Aww… thanks so much Ellie! 🙂 These bites are definitely for peanut butter lovers, but probably a bit healthier tasting than the cookies. Hehe.
I foresee a long lasting friendship built on a foundation of peanut butter and chocolate. Whaddya say, Ellie? 🙂
I say HECK YES!!!
Woot woot! 🙂 xoxo
Yesssssss, peanut butter is my number one food. Like, if I could only bring one food to a desert island it would be peanut butter. I firmly believe that any food is made better with peanut butter. My home is never without peanut butter and on the off chance that I run out it is serious crisis mode. So, yes, I agree, PB mends the cracks in my heart 😉 And these peanut butter bites! I love them! I made the energy bites that have been floating around pinterest forever, but I love that these are like super peanut buttery. Must make ASAP. Pinning!
Meghan, I’m gonna have to go ahead and agree with you. PB is good with ANYTHING. Crisis mode: LOL. Any excuse I have to amp up the PB in a recipe, I will. I hope you enjoy these! Let me know how it turns out. Thanks for stopping by and for pinning! 🙂
Oh my gosh Meghan it’s like you read my mind!! I just had to let you know that I totally agree (1000%) with this comment. Peanut butter RULES!
Sooo… I’ve neither ever made homemade peanut butter nor eaten peanut butter and coconut together and all of those things are my jam. I definitely need to get on it! It really is impossible to eat peanut butter without feeling instantly better and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with taking a spoon to a jar and hiding in the closet until the cracks of your heart are filled. It’s not weird. I repeat. It’s not weird.
WHAT?!?! Stephanie, it’s like I don’t even know you. ? Please do so and report back immediately! I’m pretty sure that peanut butter + coconut is what love tastes like. Okay, PB + Cookies + NO Sharing in the Eating Closet is what’s happening this weekend. It’s decided. And it is so not weird. In fact, we can be not-weird together. ?
Just realized that I forgot to pin these bad boys, I have since rectified that situation, because yes, these are absolutely happening in my house this weekend!! I think I have everything on hand but the flax… My four-year-old loves coconut (and peanut butter, but duh) and I think she’s going to go freaking nuts over these. I might even be able to convince my coconut-hating eldest to give them a shot, so I clearly I’ll have to make two batches so that I can have mine in the eating closet without interruption (or sharing, obviously) 😉
Thanks so much Steph! 🙂 Oh man, I’m totally getting sweaty-palms over you trying these. Let me know how it goes!! I’m super excited to be providing recipes/food for that Eating Closet! Haha. Can’t wait to hear what you, the coconut loving kiddo and the non-coconut loving one think! Big hugs to ya, Stephanie! <3
Obsessed with how amazing these look! By the way, I love your name! It is so pretty. Cheers!
Aw, thanks so much Ashlyn! 🙂 You’re one to talk- your name is incredibly beautiful! Thanks so much. <3
Excuse me but I need to run and make this RIGHT THIS MINUTE! And, peanut butter fills the cracks in the heart is my new favorite. As a Vermont girl, I do love that there is just the perfect, perfect amount of maple syrup in this recipe. Could these adorable treats get any better? I don’t think so!! xoxo
Get it, girl! Haha. Such a good quote! Maple syrup just makes everything better… and I’m not just sayin’ that because I’m friends with a certain gal from Vermont. 😉 Thanks, Kate! 🙂
My fav pb with coconut.. Tasty and yummy balls love it
Right? Peanut butter and coconut together are just magic. Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
Hahaha, that gif was amazing! Peanut butter really does fix everything. I think this is going to be my new favorite peanut butter recipe! Soo excited to try it out. They look so yummy! 🙂
LOL. Thanks! Isn’t Kevin James the cutest? 🙂 Wohoo! Try it out and let me know how it goes. Thanks, Megan! 🙂
No, you are not talking to yourself. I am here to share your love. I am totally addicted to peanut butter ♥︎
I actually normally prefer peanut butter in savoury dishes, but these bites with coconut sound so amazing, I definitely gonna make them. They sound like the best sweet treat ever 🙂
Haha. Good to know Evi. 🙂 PB is just one of the most wonderful ingredients, ever! You are so right about peanut in savory dishes… they just add a certain richness and delicious flavor. Let me know how it turns out. Thanks Evi! 🙂
I love peanut butter! But never used it in truffles/energy bites! These look perfect! Great combo, pinned to try them!
PB is really the greatest! 🙂 Omigosh, I think this is the first of many, many more PB energy bites to come. Haha. Thanks for stopping by and pinning Mira!
these look SOOO good and so simple to make! i too am peanut butter obsessed (who isn’t these days!?) and would eat these by the handful. saving for later!
Thanks! 🙂 Good point… Woot woot for all of us the PB Lovers! Nice to meet ya, Beverley. 🙂
Ha! Giiirl we are totally kindred spirits! My love of peanut butter and coconut runs DEEP. Like, I swear I bleed peanut butter and coconut.. and possibly salted caramel along with a million other things. But you feel me. 😉 These little bites of heaven are absolutely screaming my name and begging to be all up in my face. Love that they are no bake and easy peasy to throw together. Although these might be dangerous, because I can already foresee me shoveling these peanut buttery, crazy delicious coconutty beauties on repeat into my pie hole. Good thing I like to live on the edge. Pinned! Cheers to both you and peanut butter filling the cracks in my heart. 😉 <3
Kindred spirits: you can say that again! 😉 PB + Coconut is just… *happy sigh* Do NOT even get me started on salted caramel. We could be here all day! lol. Live on the edge and get it, girl! Haha. Thanks so much for the amazing comments, Cheyanne! And thanks for pinning. 🙂 🙂 PB <3
Peanut butter is everyone’s love language, isn’t it!!! Followed closely by coconut. And I’m sure I don’t even have to tell you how “no-bake just makes me happy. How do you make something so delicious be so healthy too? Scrumptious. Of course, I’ll have to use natural p.b. but I’m getting used to it. I did a taste contest on Peanut Butter in college and held out 5 spoons of different types to see which was would be the favorite. Peter Pan won hands down, Ha!!! Go figure, with all that sugar in there. But oh so, yummy!!!
Riiiiight? I’m not trying to make any assumptions, but… 😉 No bake is the best!! Once you get used to natural PB, it’s hard to go back, I promise! 🙂 Sugar & PB can be hard to resist. We’ve got to be strong together, Laura! Hehe. Thanks for commenting. 🙂