If you are planning to freeze this recipe, set the protein balls/bites on a cookie sheet with at least 1 inch separation and put in the freezer for at least 1 hour. The energy bite crumbles are divine heated up on oatmeal and you may even start making this recipes just for oatmeal topping it is so good! Freezer Tips There will undoubtedly be some extra crumbles at the bottom-save these for your oatmeal the next morning. After 30 minutes, roll out the protein bites into little inch bites. When everything is mixed well, cover the bowl and stick in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. You will find some dry ingredients still at the bottom, so try to keep getting the liquid ingredients to the bottom of the bowl. If you still have no idea what I am talking about check out the YouTube Video where I walk you through all the steps. Just slide the bottom down to the fill-line and fill it up with peanut butter and push the bottom up-boom! It all comes out without a huge mess. An inexpensive, but unnecessary tool is this adjustable measuring cup. I think best practices are to mix all the dry ingredients first and then mix all the wet ingredients. That way you don’t get a protein bite that feels like it has a pokey stand of coconut sticking out. If you end up with these, no worries, just grab a pair of kitchen scissors and snip away. Also, some coconut flakes come in long strands (like they sometimes do at Trader Joe’s). There is no need for extra calories or sugar from sweetened coconut flakes, because the peanut butter and honey offer plenty of sweetness.

The coconut flakes are truly best unsweetened and cut as finely as possible. It may also be a good idea to store left over opened ground flax seed in fridge, since the oil in from flax seed can go bad in the pantry. Unless you have a mill they are super hard to grind. When it comes to the flax seed, make sure to get some that is already ground up. Trader Joes has some great cacao chips that I am currently loving! Ground Flax Seed Tips They are definitely a bit bitter on their own, but paired with the peanut butter and the honey no one seems to notice that the chocolate taste isn’t chocolate chips. You can use chocolate chips for this recipe, but I switched to cacao chips or nibs when I learned how they are a powerful antioxidant that can help slow down inflammation in the body.

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