If you have forever hungry kids like mine, festive season notwithstanding, then this Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Ball recipe will sure come in handy! It's a great quick snack or post-meal sweet.
This delicious, decadent yet wholesome snack/ dessert is very high in protein because of peanut butter AND homemade vegan protein powder in it. Latter was adapted from my dear friend Radhika's blog Tickling Palate. It's a wonderful versatile recipe. This protein powder has been going in our smoothies, pancakes, waffles, getting sprinkled on our raita, my breakfast yogurt with granola. I feel good about serving this to my family as its completely preservative free and has plant-based protein, along with many other vitamins, minerals and Omega 3 fatty acids.
Now back to this fabulous, fudgy bite- sized treat. Its, as always, a super simple and healthy one. And who doesn't love chocolate peanut butter combination!! It tastes so much like a snickers bar, but like my son said " but only better, way better"! There you go, approval from the highest authority. And nobody' s missing any of the nasty ingredients, only clean, real food.
You can leave out the protein powder, just add more oats, or any other nut of equivalent amount. I used a bar of dairy free chocolate, but go ahead and use the darkest variety you can find, if you'd like. The glaze can be optional but is HIGHLY recommended. It comes together in no time at all and keeps very well in the freezer or refrigerator. One of those make ahead, no fail recipes that we all need in our repertoire!
Eat well, eat real foods, stay happy and healthy!
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Blissballs
Ingredients
Blissballs
- 3/4 cup Oats Lightly toasted. I used glutenfree oats.
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 3 tbsp Homemade protein powder see the recipe below.
- 4 tbsp Honey/Maple syrup/Agave You can also use 6-8 pitted dates, soaked in warm water too.
- 1 tsp Coconut oil
- 4 Tbsp peanut butter
- 4-5 tbsp Light coconut milk
Chocolate glaze
- 3/4 cup Dairy free chocolate or Dark chocolate (70%) I used Mason & Co, dairy free chocolate
- 5-6 tbsp Light coconut milk
Vegan Protein Powder
- 1/4 cup Popped amaranth
- 1/4 cup Peanuts unsalted, roasted
- 2 tbsp Almonds unsalted, roasted
- 2 Tbsp Flax seeds unsalted, roasted
- 2 tbsp White sesame seeds unsalted, roasted
- 2 tbsp Pumpkin seeds unsalted, roasted
- 2 tbsp Sunflower seeds unsalted, roasted
- 2 Tbsp Chia seeds
Instructions
Balls
- Place oats, peanut butter, honey/maple syrup, coconut oil, protein powder, cocoa powder in your food processor/blender. Blend until combined. You will need to add coconut milk 1 tbsp at a time, to get a smooth, pliable dough.
- Taste and adjust for sweetness. Form into 12 even sized balls. Place on a parchment/foil lined tray and place in the fridge for an hour or in your freezer for 20 minutes or so, until firm.
Chocolate glaze
- Combine the chocolate and coconut milk in a double boiler over gentle heat until chocolate has melted and is smooth. You can melt these together in the microwave too, 30 second bursts.
- Dip each ball into the chocolate, sprinkle some crushed peanuts ( if you like) and return to the fridge or freezer until set. You will have some leftover glaze.
Protein powder
- Place all the ingredients except for chia seeds in your coffee grinder and blend till you get a coarse powder. Add the chia seeds and pulse it 3-4 times to break it down coarsely. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Chandani says
Hi Tasha,
can you please update the recipe with the amount of peanut butter used? would love to try this out as soon as possible-my kids will love these balls 🙂
Thanks.
natashaminocha says
Oooops!! Thanks for pointing this out Chandani. I've updated the recipe. Hope you get to try these out soon. Please do let me know how they worked out for you.
Cheers
Chandani says
sure 🙂 will let you know soon.
btw, we love the rose coconut bliss balls-have already made them twice 🙂
natashaminocha says
Oh that's so wonderful Chandani!! Very glad you like them! 🙂
xoxo
Chandani says
made the peanut butter balls today-these are going to be our new family favourites. I told my 6 years old that these are very healthy and he can have one everyday-he said if they are healthy why can't he eat 2 everyday? ??
Thanks once again!
natashaminocha says
This is so wonderful!! Thank you so so much for trying these out and for your positive feedback. You've made my day! Please tell your little one, he can surely have 2 everyday!! 🙂 much love
Ashika |Gardening Foodie says
What an amazing recipe this is. You are so right, chocolate and peanut butter do make a perfect combination, but what I really love about your recipe is that it really good for you, I mean I will eat these by the tons and have a hard time sharing. Thank you for a great recipe. Absolutely love it!!! Definitely saving and pinning!
natashaminocha says
Awwwww... thank you Ashika! Your kind words mean so much to me!I hope you do get to try these out sometime. Please let me know how they worked out for you. Much love