Coconut Peanut Butter Protein Bites are a rich flavored, healthy grain free snack, packed with protein! These NO BAKE vegan protein bites are lower in sugar and carbs. Great for summer treats!
Ya’ll… it’s JUNE! Summer! Okay almost Summer. But when you live in Texas, it starts to feel like summer in April. We hit 93F this week, and with 95% humidity. I’m a wee bit scared of what July is going to look like. One thing is for sure, we will be eating a lot of NO bake meals and smoothies. Unless one of you northerns want to to adopt us for the summer? haha!
Okay but in all seriousness, the NO BAKE season has begun. I’m cool with it (pun intended). It means we grill often and keep plenty of ice in the freezer for smoothies and desserts/snacks like mad! Which leads me to these coconut peanut butter protein bites. THE JUNE flavor of the month is…
Coconut Cream Peanut Butter Bites! Hmm… how did I come up with this easy no bake bites recipe?
Well, we recently bought a pint of vanilla coconut cream pint of coconut cream ice cream (this kind) to add to our summer smoothies. It makes them super creamy! Anyway, one day I was blending up a morning shake for the kiwi and myself when I realized that our peanut butter jar was about empty. Might as well throw that last little bit in the blender, right? And then I realized that that we only had a handful of coconut cereal left (this kind), might as well throw that in there too. It was basically a “let’s cram in all our leftover bits of ingredients” kind of smoothie.
I didn’t think much of it, I do it ALL the time. Ya know? That was until I tasted it. Holy Moly! That’s like dessert. Maybe a combo of frozen peanut butter pie and coconut cream pie combined into one. Um, ya, that kind.
This flavor stuck in my head. It was too good! Too good not to make into a bite, right? Coconut peanut butter protein bites are rich, creamy, and they are UBER satisfying, without the excess sugar and unhealthy carbs. Ya, you’re gonna want to make these a repeat recipe this summer.
Meaning, make coconut peanut butter protein bites. Eat, then repeat. Haha!
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No Bake Coconut Peanut Butter Protein Bites
- Yield: 18-20 bites 1x
Description
Coconut Peanut Butter Protein Bites are a rich flavored, healthy grain free snack, packed with protein! These NO BAKE vegan protein bites are lower in sugar and carbs. Great for summer treats!
Ingredients
• ¼ cup gluten free granola or other cereal of choice
• ⅓ cup coconut flour (can also use peanut flour or almond flour)
• ½ cup of creamy peanut butter
• ½ cup Vanilla Cream Protein Powder of choice
• 2 -3 tbsp. coconut flakes
• dash of cinnamon
• ⅓ cup maple syrup (or honey if you are not vegan)
• ½ teaspoon Vanilla bean or vanilla Extract.
• ¼ teaspoon coconut extract (optional)
Instructions
First, grind up your granola in food processor to make more fine, similar to an almond meal texture.
In large bowl, add in all your dry ingredients.
Then mix in your nut butter, extracts, and last the maple syrup or honey. Mix well (I use my hands) and roll into bite size balls. Add more honey/PB if they end up being too dry to roll. Just depends on type of protein you use. Place balls on cookie sheet and then freeze for 30 minutes.
Once they set in freezer for 30 minutes, you can remove and coat them in more vanilla protein or peanut flour. Then place in ziplock bag and store in fridge or freezer.
Feel free to roll into larger bites, or smaller to make more.
Notes
For paleo option, us a grain free granola or trail mix blend versus granola.
Alright, enough drooling here. Let me get to the real highlight of this post, the giveaway.
Update: The giveaway is over and the entry form has been removed from this post.
This giveaway is pretty darn special to me. Not only am I giving away a box of healthy bites, but I’m also partnering up with my friend’s locally sourced catering company to giveaway 5 FREE MEALS!! Yes, they will ship them to you, nationwide!
But there’s more. There is potential here ya’ll. Potential for HEALTHY BITES to be part of 512 Market Kitchen. This means you could ORDER Healthy Bites to be shipped to you again. We’re still figuring out the details and working out the kinks, which is why we’re giving this giveaway go. We want to see how everything will ship and to if people will be interested in ordering more meals, bites, etc. So, with that being said, GO GIVE THEM LOVE! GO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY… I say that in a loving and excited voice! xxoo
Oh and if you make this recipe, PLEASE let me know if you think the coconut peanut butter protein bites taste like a combo of coconut cream and peanut butter pie. Or maybe I just get way too excited about flavors! Haha.
Cheers to Healthy Bites that tastes like dessert! Oh and MEATLESS MONDAY!
Cheers,
Oh I understand you with the heat! It’s hot hot hot down here in FL too! No bake season it is 🙂
xoxo Sarah Grace, Fresh Fit N Healthy.
i love your healthy bite recipes so i’d love to try your protein bites!
and, favorite summer smoothie combo is strawberry & mango 🙂
OMG YUUUUUM! I tweeted and pinned 🙂 My fave summer smoothie is strawberry banana!
yum these do look good and super easy to make. Your food photos are always fab too. Thanks for linking up!
Favorite summer smoothie is anything with berries.
How exciting for you and thanks for hosting such a great giveaway! I’d love to try their super breakfast bowl! And of course your protein bites!
oh you’d love it! so good!
I was just remarking to my husband when we were hiking this weekend that we needed to find some good energy balls recipes for our hikes. These look so good!
oh go for it! and let me know wahtcha think laura
I love when you just throw somethings together and it ends up tasting so freaking DELICIOUS!!
best accidental accident ever! haha
My fav recently is fresh cantalope, lactose-free cottage cheese, soymilk, and protein. Yum!
that sounds yum!
I love your bites recipes! I love strawberry banana blueberry in my smoothies 🙂
oh great combo Jess!
Gosh these look good. But can I save them until the weather might get a bit warmer here, and maybe you could send some of your heat over here? It’s still below 10 degrees, cold, wet and pretty poor to say the least! Lol
These look so good! I can’t wait to make them (they’re easy enough that I can actually do it!)
Favorite smoothie combo—nut butter. banana. some protein powder. & berries!
Sweet & Tangy salmon looks amazing!
I have to get on the no bake bandwagon! These look delicious. Love that they are gluten-free too.
peanut butter and banana is a favorite combination, so i love taking frozen banana, peanut butter and adding a chocolate protein powder, cold and refreshing.
I can enter this!!!! wooo. And you know me and the no bake goods. You won me over!
trade you balls? i mean… um. bites
As always, Lindsay, superb food photography. Have you thought about writing an eBook about taking photos of food? (Hint, hint? ;)) These sound delish and I can’t wait to try making them!
PS: The Bison chili from 512 market looks delish!
Coconut cream = yum!! These look divine…
I am all about the no bake whenever I can, especially during summer!
How do you handle the heat + humidity? Your skin must be amazing with all the moisture! 🙂
I love almost any type of smoothie. I have been making a lot with almond milk and fruit lately.
Happy June!!
I love energy bites like this. They’re perfect for kids and adults, aren’t they?
YES to Healthy Bites that taste like desert! My favorite kind…Yes this summer is going to be interesting in Texas. I think it is going to be really hot and really rainy! DOH!
Gosh, these look delicious – only after reading the recipe did I notice they are grain free! Pinning! (PS Love the pic too 🙂 )
These look amazing! I love those crazy throw together combos that turn out to be life changing. Than the fun of trying to remember what and amounts when in and recreating.
Girl I love you but really what is my favorite summer smoothie?! I can’t play favorites I have too many so the kid answer in me that answers RAINBOW when asked “What’s your favorite color?” says ALL OF THEM! 😉
Oh and I so need to that coconut flake cereal!
I’m such a breakfast person so the super breakfast pudding has my name all over it! But the sweet and tangy salmon dinner looks amazing too!
We have a second bedroom and it hasn’t been getting above 70 degrees here lately. I’d be more than happy to put you two up as long as you bring all of your delicious recipes with you 🙂
Favorite year round smoothie combo is anything with bananas and nut butter!
All the chicken dishes look amazing!
I am not a smoothie person these days but I love my iced coffee! 🙂
Those bites look amazing!
Oh my favorite summer smoothie has to be mango strawberry! I don’t have it much but when I do – heaven!!
Ohh I will gladly pass off some cooler weather!! These bites sound so dreamy, I’m salivating over here. PB + coconut are a delicious pair. P.S. I will gladly adopt you for the summer 🙂
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I’d make roasted salmon!
Kale banana vanilla and Almond milk smoothie!
I love smoothies! I usually add kale, blueberries, banana, pb, cashew milk, & chia seeds
You know I love all your balls. The giveaway rocks too. I’m curious bout 512 since I’ve seen you post so much about them.
It’s still in the 70s here, but we are having smoothies for breakfast. I usually do berries, protein, and add avocado to make it smooth.
It was 105 in Phoenix this weekend. I got everything done in the morning and stayed inside in the afternoon. I dreaded turning the stove on last night to make dinner. Do you have a no bake recipe for dinner?
All the coconut. As soon as the second batch of coconut date energy balls I made last week are done, I’ll be giving these a try. Pinning!
Oh, and congrats on the potential 😀
Yum, yum, and more yum! I LOVE that these are grain-free! I bet they would be really delicious with cashew or almond butter too 🙂
Favorite summer smoothie combo: pineapple, strawberries, mango, all mixed up with fresh squeezed OJ!
The chicken pesto looks delicious!
I love a banana, strawberry and spinach smoothie!
I’m pretty sure that my Canadian-self would melt in that kind of heat 😯 It was in the 80’s for a couple of weeks here and I could barely handle that. But thankfully we have delicious no-bake treats like this to take our mind off the heat, yes? 😀
I love the tropical stuff in the summertime…give me pineapple and coconut!! Your protein bites look delicious!
My freezer is devoid of any protein bites right now, so guess what I’m making today? Thank you!
Love the ingredients in these- they sound so good!! My favorite current smoothie is raspberries, almond milk, and vanilla or chocolate protein – simple and so good!
My favorite summer smoothie is strawberry protein powder, frozen strawberries, unsweetened almond milk, and flaxseed.
You said it yourself, but no bake season is officially IN–which means bring on the ‘bites’ recipes!
Once again, I am envisioning my mouth at the end of this table and the bites rolling into my mouth. YUM!
I am loving pineapple and mango for a smoothie flavor right now for summer, however, I get bored easy so I’ sure this will change.
Yum! We are exiting warm weather which makes me sad! These will help me pretend it is still hot outside!
ooh love that these are no bake! Thanks for linking up today!
My sister would love these, definitely going to share with her!
These look great, I love when recipes turn out like that! Going to try these soon.
lately i am all about the flavor of blueberry in my smoothies, frozen blueberries just hit the spot. especially adding in a bit of cocoa powder.
93 degrees already?! I am planning on coming that way in July – I bet it’s gonna be 100+ …just the right temp to enjoy my old favorite banana/pineapple/spinach protein smoothie or my new fav coconut cream/peanut butter smoothie (any chance that recipe will be up?). As for your partnership with 512 – lady, I sure hope it works out! I’ve had the pleasure of trying your bites and – dang! Just like these they are pretty incredible! They need to be shipped EVERYWHERE!
Favorite smoothie combo- thats a tough question- I’ll go chocolate protein powder, 1/2 frozen banana, handful frozen spinach, PB, and milk. I’m jealous of whoever wins this- I hope its me!!!!
My favorite smoothie combo is frozen banana, chocolate protein powder, almond butter, greens, and almond milk!
Coconut and pb are so good together. You’ve already got my vote!
What a delicious combination Lindsay! Love that! No bake season is definitely here….although our AC must be on a power trip as last night it was so cold in here that my nose was freezing….we had to turn it off hahahah! Thanks for sharing lovely!
Yummm in truth I don’t like coconut but these look so good I might be able to get over that! PB sold me! 🙂
I am simple! Frozen banana, almond butter, chocolate protein powder and vanilla unsweetened almond milk!
The chicken pesto and roasted salmon look fantastic!
These look delicious! I love no-bake recipes any time of year:) But yes in the heat its even more important!
The meal that I would want to try from the market is the Super Breakfast Pudding.
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Favorite summer smoothie combo is unsweetened cashew milk, frozen cherries, raw almond butter, and chocolate whey protein powder.
hmmm I RECALL SEEING YOU COMMENT on IG there may be a book of bites coming?
we need a BITES BOOK.
Heat in the 90s scares me and I don’t know how Id handle your climate! No bake it is, and I would totally store them in the freezer, looks delicious 🙂