No Bake Snickerdoodle Energy Balls {6 Ingredients}
Soft and chewy no-bake energy bites with a sweet cinnamon-sugar coating. These snickerdoodle flavored treats make the perfect protein balls for a healthy snack to enjoy any time of the day.
Are you ready to kick off the New Year with some healthy treats? These delicious and easy to make no-bake energy bites are the perfect snack to prep and store in your freezer.
They’re soft, gooey, and just the right amount of density to give them just the right amount of chew.
They’re perfect as a pre or post-workout snack, or really anytime you feel like you need a quick pick me up.
Ingredients Needed to Make Date Energy Balls
Aside from the cinnamon sugar coating, you only need four ingredients to make these delicious snickerdoodle energy bites.
Ingredients:
- Raw cashews (soaked in hot water): soaking cashews helps making the texture more fudgy and soft.
- Medjool dates pitted: If they are hard to touch, you can soak them in hot water for 15 minutes to soften. It makes the blending process easier and results in smoother texture.
- Almond butter: I used the smooth, unsalted, and unsweetened kind.
- Coconut flour or vegan pea protein is used to absorb the extra moisture.
- Ground Cinnamon makes up that signature flavor of Snickerdoodle.
- Sugar for rolling (must be granular, a liquid sugar would not work here)
Sugar coating: Ground cinnamon and sugar
How to Make Snickerdoodle Protein Balls
As promised, these no bake energy balls are super easy to make. These are the tools that are going to make your life a lot easier when making these.
Kitchen Tools Needed:
Food processor- if you don’t have a food processor, you could also use a high-quality blender for these no bake energy bites.
You may need to work in bigger batches to ensure that all of the ingredients are thoroughly chopped and blended, otherwise, you may end up with large chunks of dates and/or cashews in your dough.
I love using food processors with removable blades to ensure no leftovers are stuck underneath the blades.
Cookie dough scoop- optional, but I love using it to make them all the same size and visually more appealing.
Directions:
First, prep the cashews by soaking them in hot water with a pinch of salt for two hours, or overnight. Drain and rinse.
If the mixture is too runny, continue to add coconut flour, 1 Tbsp at a time, until you have a dough-like consistency. You should be able to form them into balls without the dough losing shape.
On the other hand, if the dough is too dry, add in a little bit of dairy-free milk, one tablespoon at a time.
Before forming into balls, chill dough in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
How to Store No Bake Energy Bites
Store these no bake snickerdoodle energy bites in an air tight container or bag.
You can keep them in either the fridge or the freezer, but I prefer to keep them in the freezer.
You don’t need to worry about defrosting these no bake energy bites before enjoying because they come out cold, gooey and ready-to-eat. Plus, they last longer.
Feel free to make extra and store them in the freezer so you have them whenever a craving hits!
If you choose to keep them in the fridge, they can last up to a week.
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Get the recipe:No Bake Snickerdoodle Energy Balls {6 Ingredients}
Ingredients
- 2 cups raw cashews, soaked
- 1/4 cup Smooth Almond Butter
- 8 – 10 Medjool dates *
- 1/3 cup coconut flour **, or vegan pea protein powder
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
Ingredients for Rolling
- 2 tbsp sugar ***
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Soak raw cashews overnight with a pinch of salt (or soak in hot water for 2 hours). Rinse and Drain well (If you are short on time, you can skip this step). ****
- In a food processor, pulse together raw cashews, dates (pits removed) and almond butter, until gooey and smooth (no big chunks left).
- Add coconut flour, cinnamon, and a pinch of sea salt. Blend until doughy.
- Chill in the fridge for an hour or freezer for 20 minutes (makes it easier for rolling)
- Coating for Snickerdoodle energy bites
- In a small bowl, mix coconut sugar and cinnamon
- Scoop the dough into desired sized protein balls. Roll in cinnamon sugar.
- Store in the fridge or freezer.
Notes
- ** If you choose not to soak the cashews, you may not need much coconut flour. start with 1/4 cup and add 1 tbsp at a time if the batter appears to be too wet.
- *** You can also roll in Keto-friendly sweeteners like monk fruit powder.
- **** Soaking nuts make the texture of these energy bites fudgier. Make sure you drain it well otherwise it could make the cookie dough texture very wet and hard to form
The Nutrition Facts above are specific to the ingredients I chose to use for this recipe, which may vary.
