There is something fun about eating food when it’s in the shape of little spheres instead of the typical bar. You can just pop them in your mouth and enjoy the deliciousness that follows. It also makes them easy to toss in a bag for your workout, training ride, run, or whatever you do. Having an easy, healthy, tasty energy snack was the main focus when making these peanut butter coconut energy balls.

They are really quite simple to make. Just add all the ingredients to a food processor, blend, roll into balls, toss in coconut, and enjoy! No baking, no special steps, just an easy and delicious recipe. Of course I also love the flavors in this recipe. Coconut and peanut butter go so well together. Not many people are super fond of the flavor of coconut, but I happen to love its unique flavor. 

To keep the recipe on the lower calorie side, and easier to make into the balls, I used peanut flour rather than regular peanut butter. Peanut flour is basically defatted peanuts that is turned into a flour. Sometimes  I will just mix it with some water and use it as peanut butter on a sandwich or drizzled over pancakes. It’s really quite versatile and delicious.

Of course, if you wanted to make these protein based, you can do that as well. For that, you would use 1/4 cup peanut flour and 1/4 cup vanilla (or preferred flavor) whey protein powder. I really like this one! Or, if you wanted to avoid the peanuts all together you can substitute the peanut flour for an equal amount of almond flour or coconut flour. Coconut flour tends to absorb quite a bit of moisture, so if using coconut flour, you may need to add a little extra almond milk to keep the balls from being too crumbly.

No matter how you do them, they are sure to be healthy and delicious guaranteed!