OH. MY. HEAVENS. I have one of the most amazing treats to share with you today. So this summer, I played around with different versions of my Energy Bites recipe to help you out as well as to help us out since we like to do Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free and Paleo eating often in our home. As chiropractors, we totally see the benefits of getting rid of some of those allergy causing foods so we are always game to make up new recipes that use healthy and natural ingredients. And guess what? I created these ahhh-mazing Gluten Free Nut Free Energy Bites! They are crazy good and are quickly becoming one of our favorite Gluten Free Recipes, yay!!
If you liked my No Bake Energy Bites recipe, you will love these as are they are just as easy to make! Those No Bake Energy Bites may have probably been one of the most popular recipes I’ve ever posted. I’m so glad you love them as much as we do, that makes me smile. Well, ever since I posted that recipe I have had so many comments and emails about ingredient changes due to allergies, etc. since there is peanut butter in them. Man, how I felt bad. You can totally use sunbutter, almond butter, or cashew butter as a substitute but I hear ya loud and clear, nut allergies stink and sometimes you just don’t want to buy those substitutes cause they do look very similar to peanut butter and that can create some false safety issues with little ones! Maybe you are one of many that doesn’t like to have any of that in your house?
Have you ever had Mexican Fried Ice Cream? Well, if you have then you will love the taste of these Gluten-Free Nut-Free Energy Bites because they totally taste like that crunchy stuff they roll the ice cream in. Yup, there is a total honey and cinnamon taste to these. In fact, sometimes we just forego the ball-making and just sprinkle this on top of ice cream, YUM!
I wanted to call them ‘Mexican Fried Ice Cream Bites’ or ‘Honey and Cinnamon Bites‘ but well, there is no honey or cinnamon in them, let alone ice cream. I don’t know what it is about the combination of coconut oil and maple syrup but it is an awesome one, it may just beat out peanut butter and jelly for my taste buds 😉
Gluten Free Nut Free Energy Bites
I truly hope you enjoy these, they are our new favorite after-school snack, after-soccer/swimming/gymnastics snack, after-dinner snack, ah well, you get it…we love them.
PS. These can easily be made Gluten-Free with the right ingredients (that’s how we normally make them!) and they are Dairy-Free too…woot woot!
Nut-Free Energy Bites
Recipe Type: Dessert
Prep time:
Total time:
Serves: 20 bites
80 calories per bite.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Gluten Free Rice Krispies
- 1 cup [url href=”http://amzn.to/2kMzhd0″]Gluten Free rolled oats[/url]
- 1/2 cup ground flaxseed
- 1/3 cup [url href=”http://amzn.to/2kODk4G”]coconut oil[/url] (in soft state)
- 1/3 cup [url href=”http://amzn.to/2kOAqNn”]maple syrup[/url]
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together in a medium sized bowl until well combined.
- Place in refrigerator for 30 minutes and then roll into balls.
- If mixture seems too sticky add a bit more oats.
The dry ingredients…so simple and good for you.
The wet ingredients. Umm, yeah. We like Trader Joe’s just a little bit 🙂
Here is my coconut oil in a soft state which would be at room temperature at our house. If you warm it up it becomes liquid which is a pretty neat science experiment in and of itself. You could use it in it’s liquid state but you would need to change your dry/wet ingredient ratios a bit! PS. you do not want to use this straight out of the fridge. It will be too hard and not mix well. Your best bet…the soft, semi-solid state!!
Aren’t oats just pretty to look at? You’ll need one cup of these pretties.
Ground flaxseed, 1/2 cup. You could easily grind your own in a coffee grinder but I found an amazing deal on ground flaxseed a while back so now I am stocked for life…sort of. Make sure you keep ground flaxseed in the back of the fridge to keep it at it’s best.
Mix all those goodies up so everything is nice and combined. Then refrigerate the mixture for about a half hour so that your coconut oil solidifies a bit. This will help make for easy ball rolling!
Scrum-diddily-umptious I say!
Make some today…they are truly deee-lish! 🙂
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Thanks for stopping by today! Love, Maggie
These look great!! I think we will try them out and then as long as they get the kid-tested/kid-approved vote at our house, I will send those in the next time my daughter has to take snack to her school!
gotta try these! thank you!
xoxo
We are HUGE fans of the no bake energy bites with our substitute of almond butter…cannot wait to try these now!! Thanks!!
Yum! We will definitely be trying these! My only suggestion would to NOT use Bob’s Red Mill if you have a tree nut allergy that requires a dedicated facility. On the label it states that their products are manufactured on the same lines/in the same facility as tree nuts (they make almond flour.)
My kiddos and hubby LOVE these! We add in chia seeds and sometimes chopped sunflower or pumpkin seeds! We also use almond butter or sunflower butter because of peanut allergies! They are great no matter what you put in them!
This looks delicious! I might have to try these!
Thank you sooo much! My daughter is allergic to peanuts, so I made the original recipe several months ago with almond butter, but it just wasn’t quite right. Can’t wait to try these!! 🙂
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in Creative Busy Bee Craft Inspirations, under the Page 2 post on Oct. 11, 2012. Thanks again.
Thanks for sharing. This looks delicious!!! We should try it out!
This is so great! I can’t tell you how long I’ve been looking for a nut free energy bar/bite recipe that doesn’t include any of the faux- butters. My son has a severe peanut allergy so we don’t do any nut products and he really isn’t a fan of sun butter (I think mainly because it so closely resembles peanut butter) . Thank you … Thank you … Thank you!!! I can’t wait to try these 🙂
What can I substitute instead of coconut oil? We can’t send coconut-containing products to our school, and I’m allergic to it. I may try sunbutter, and see if that works.
These look soo yummy!! I am making them today. I also added some vanilla extract and cinnamon, so i’ll let you know if that was a good add or bad. We shall see. Thanks for the recipe and post!! 🙂
Has anyone tried this with quinoa in place of either oatmeal or flaxseed? Thinking about trying it but curious if anyone else has tried this experiment yet!
Say someone was to make it with liquid coconut oil before noticing it has “solid state” in the directions. Do you know how much extra oil they would have to add so the balls would be formable? 🙂
Just made these with my 3yo son. He had a great time making them and they tasted great. We added cocoa powder because I love chocolate and I thought they were too sweet without it. Thanks!
Hi Maggie!!!!
we love these so much. I actually took the freedom to play with the recipe a little. holy cow! they have become a stable in our house. how do you keep them crunchy? i noticed that the day after making them they aren’t crunchy any longer… any suggestions would deb great.
ps
you’re bento boxes are the best, my son is 5, today was his first day of school and he came home with an empty lunch box, JACKPOT!!!!!. THANK YOU so much from nyc!!!! I love your website and what you’re doing. sending great vibes.
Hi Melani! I am so glad you like these energy bites! I am unsure of what to tell you about the crunchiness factor though…ours never last more than a day so I haven’t had that happen to us yet, eep! And I am so glad you have enjoyed my bento lunch posts too!! Yay for an empty lunch box! Thank you so much for commenting and stopping by to read, I truly appreciate it!!
love,
Maggie