These Apple Chai Energy Balls are made with rolled oats, dried apples, chai spices, and an almond butter base for a healthy fall sweet treat. Great for snacks on the go!
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Energy Balls 4ever
I legit don’t think I’ve ever eaten more balls in my entire life than in the past 7 days. If you look in my freezer you’ll find about 200 balls (not an exaggeration) in gallon-sized bags. Balls on balls on balls. Between all of the recent energy balls recipes, recipe tests and meal prepping, I think at least half of my freezer is filled with balls. And we ain’t mad about it 😀
No Food Processor Required!
One great thing about these apple chai energy balls is that they require nothing more than a bowl to make a batch! Most of our energy balls recipes require a food processor to process the ingredients together, but because the apples are chopped not pureed, and we’re using rolled oats and almond butter instead of almonds or cashews, nothing needs to be blended up! So, if you don’t have a high-speed food processor, you’re in luck.
Apple Chai Energy Balls
This recipe screams all things Fall. If I had to chose a dried fruit to eat for the rest of my life, I’d definitely choose dried apples! Instead of pureeing the dried apples like we typically do with dates in energy ball recipes, we thought we’d chop them up into bite-size pieces to keep some good texture. And we were not disappointed!
The base of this recipe is almond butter
+ rolled oats
+ honey
. Then, we added in dried apples
and chai spices. YAS. Easy, delicious, and tastes like straight up autumn in your mouth.
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- Peanut Butter Energy Balls
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Apple Chai Energy Balls
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups rolled oats
- 1/2 cup almond butter
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1.5 cup dried apple chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix together all ingredients with a wooden spoon. If the mixture is too dry, add more honey, if it's too wet, add more rolled oats.
- Using a tablespoon cookie scoop, scoop dough out and then roll between your palms to create the balls.
- Store in an air tight container or gallon-size bag in the refrigerator or freezer.
These were a huge hit in my house! I didn’t have as many dried apples as I thought so I had to sub with some dried apple chips. They added a great crunch and I will definitely be making them again.
Can I add chopped pecans to this?
Do the apples have to be dried? Or can I just use fresh apples?
Could you sub pb2 for almond butter?
would this recipe work with peanut butter instead of almond butter?
Absolutely! Almond butter has a more subtle flavor compared to PB, but peanut butter will for sure work!
how do you know what to cook them on? 350? as well as which ones need to be cooked and which don’t?
Can you use steel cut oats instead of rolled oats?
Made these on Monday. I was thrilled to make balls that didn’t call for the food processor. It was an adventure cutting up the almost-spongy apples and then… I made a terrible, terrible mistake. I used this fresh-ground almond butter from my grocery store, which is pretty chunky. It doesn’t even like sticking to itself. So these balls were a pain the *** to roll. I got so frustrated over the process that I almost quit a few times. My boyfriend even stepped in to help. Man, that was about an hour of my life I HATED. I know that’s no fault of the recipe, though, so I might try these again at some point with some smoother, stickier almond butter that won’t make me want to kill myself and/or others. The resultant balls, which I’m keeping in the freezer, are pretty okay. Not worth the effort I put into them, but I’ll definitely eat them while they’re around. They’re kind of an adventure to eat… The tastes and textures are time-delayed it seems like, seeming almost bland until flavors hit, then not sweet enough until sweetness hits. And the apples are kinda fun. They’re like messed up little marshmallow bits. lol Thanks so much for the recipe!
Oh my gosh!!! Ughhh I am so sorry you had issues! Yes, fresh ground almond butter is not the best for balls! The drippier the better! Hopefully you were able to salvage some.
We did eventually manage to get it all into ball-form. I really need to push for us to get a new blade on the food processor so I can make my own nut butters. I don’t feel particularly comfortable about adding oil to the nuts to make the butter runnier, but maybe I’m just ignorant.
I couldn’t live without my food processor! I get my almond butter and peanut butter from Costco. It’s just nuts, no added oil or sugar. The Kirland brand is amazing and drippy. Perfect for BALLS!
I love energy balls for snack. I haven’t made any in awhile, so this is top of the to do list! Perfect for apple harvest season – especially if you dry your own apples!
Mmmm this apple + chai flavor combo is awesome! Two of my favorite things rolled up into one little BALL! I love it! Can’t wait to try these soon!
I love the flavor combo of apple and chai! I would love to bring these to snack on during my classes!
WARNING- you may get attacked by the other students in your class wanting you to share 🙂
This sounds like the perfect recipe for this time of year for every balls.
LOLOLOL
Can’t wait to try these out! Love all the spices you included in this recipe!
Can’t go wrong with chai spices!
These balls scream my name! I LOVE that you used rolled oats and dried apple bits. Mmm I want some now. *sighs* I’ll have to be patient until the weekend, you are killing me with these balls recipes 😉 lol
Come over and get some because I CAN’T EAT THEM ALL. Well I could, but I’ve been trying to limit myself to like 2 or 3 a day 🙂
Haha, a freezer full of balls is definitely not a bad thing! My sister is already making requests for Thanksgiving. She says ‘I know you have a freezer stock!” She is right. 😉 Sisters are the best <3
LOL that is hilarious. Every time I go to my sister’s she’s sad when I don’t have balls. I guess she’s just grown accustom to me always having balls on me.
Nice! Love the bowl as well, very nice fall/apple decor 🙂
😛 It’s actually part of another bowl that I just got from Crate and Barrel. #makeshift
I think these are my favourite balls so far (favourite of your and Davida’s ball week, although I think I will make all of them). I love the apple and almond butter combo.
YES MAKE ALL OF THEM. Then you will have thousands of balls in your freezer 🙂
Yum! Love that these don’t require a food processor!
🙂 The best, right. However, if you don’t want to get your hands all messy a food processor might not be a bad idea!