Snack

No-bake peanut butter oat balls

Name: No-bake peanut butter oat balls
Prep time: 7 min
Cook time: 7 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 0.083 cup Rolled oats; 0.67 tbsp Peanut butter; 0.44 tbsp Honey; 0.17 tbsp Hemp hearts

The bag snack you make on Sunday. Twelve of them, no oven.

Servings: 12
Total: 15 min
Skill: Easy

What you need

Ingredients

Making for

12 servings

12× custom

Rolled oats0 cup
Peanut butter0.75 tbsp
Honey0.5 tbsp
Hemp hearts0.25 tbsp

Quantities scale linearly with servings. Round to the nearest practical amount when shopping.

Steps

1
Wet into dry, not the other way round
One cup of rolled oats and 2 tbsp of hemp hearts in the bowl first, then half a cup of peanut butter and a third of a cup of honey over the top. Poured the other way the oats float and never coat.
2
Mix until it looks too dry, then stop
It should just hold together when squeezed, not look like dough. Wetter than that and the balls flatten into discs in the fridge.
Common mistake: Adding more honey because it looks crumbly. It comes together under pressure in your hands, and honey is the thing that makes them sticky rather than firm.
3
Chill the mix before rolling
Thirty minutes in the fridge. Rolled warm it sticks to your hands and you lose half of it to the washing up.
30:00
4
Roll twelve, chill again
Tablespoon-sized, rolled between the palms, onto parchment, back in the fridge for an hour to firm up properly.

Coach's notes

Roughly 150 calories and 5 g of protein each, so two is a real snack before a session.
They soften at room temperature, so a soccer bag in Florida needs them frozen or in a cold pack.
Chocolate chips are a common addition and turn them from a snack into a treat, which is sometimes the point.
Sun butter works, but the mix is looser and needs an extra 10 minutes chilling.

Steps

Wet into dry, not the other way round

Mix until it looks too dry, then stop

Chill the mix before rolling

Roll twelve, chill again

Coach's notes