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Low Fodmap Cocoa Energy Bites

Energy Balls

Yummy but lite chocolate energy balls are full of chocolate chips, creamy peanut butter and crushed GF cereal. No awful raw tasting oatmeal to ruin their delicious chocolaty goodness.
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Prep Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 19 minutes
Course Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 15

Equipment

  • 1 small cookie scoop

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups (53g) corn Chex, or other GF dry cereal such as rice crispies, finely crushed
  • 1/4 cup (85g) maple syrup or other safe syrup
  • 1/4 cup (60g) Skippy reduced fat creamy peanut butter or use whatever peanut butter you like
  • 2 Tbsp. peanut butter powder INSTEAD OF the higher calorie regular peanut butter)
  • 3 tbsp. (14.7g) Hershey's cocoa, unsweetened
  • 2 tbsp (20g) semisweet GF mini chocolate chips
  • 1/8 cup grated coconut, dried and sweetened (or not)
  • 2 Tbsp. corn syrup or other syrup, but not molasses or honey which have fodmaps

Instructions
 

  • •In a large bowl place the crushed cereal, (I crush my cereal by putting it in a zip lock plastic bag and rolling it with a rolling pin until it is like breadcrumbs or even finer), the cocoa, chocolate chips and peanut butter OR the peanut butter powder. Stir these dry ingredients until they are mixed together.
    Then stir in the rest of the ingredients. Stir until mixture seems well mixed and almost like cookie dough. If mixture does not hold together at all, add more syrup.
    Place bowl in fridge, covered with foil or plastic, and chill for 1 hour or more. Mixture comes together even better after chilling.
    •Place a cup of warm water near the mixing bowl. Place a sheet of parchment paper over a cookie sheet or sheet pan and place near the mixing bowl.
    •Dip your fingers into the water but don't have them too wet. Using a small cookie scoop, scoop the mixture and level it to the top of the scoop. Dispense mixture into your damp palm and form into a round marble or ping pong sized ball. As you finish forming each ball, place it on the parchment paper.
    •You should get about 15 balls. Place the cookie sheet with the energy balls into the freezer until frozen.
    •Once frozen, place them in a plastic container divided into layers  by sheets of waxed paper. Keep them in the freezer. They are much easier to eat while frozen - not too hard and not too cold.
    •You can double or triple this recipe. It is very forgiving and hard to mess up.
    I always roll my balls in conf. sugar or cocoa or coconut or melted chocolate and mini chips before freezing them. They look very pretty that way.
    (Cal per energy ball is 66 Cal.)
     
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