No Bake Peanut Butter Oat Cups
No bake peanut butter oat cups are a chocolate peanut butter lovers dream! These minimal ingredient, super easy bites are not only absolutely addicting, but nutritious too! All you need is 10 and a handful of ingredients to prep a healthy, grab-and-go snack or treat for the week!
Ingredients
Oatmeal cups
- 3/4 cup quick oats *see notes
- 1/2 cup peanut butter or almond butter, etc. *Use sunflower seed butter for nut-free.
- 1/4 cup maple syrup or honey
- 2 tbsp chia seeds
- 1/4 cup protein powder, of choice *use a flavor you love!
- 1 tsp vanilla extract & good pinch of sea salt
- Optional add-ins: cinnamon, mini chocolate chips or cacao nibs, raisins, etc.
Chocolate layer
- 1 1/4 cups chocolate chips
- 2 tsp coconut oil *if needed to help thin the chocolate
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine all of the peanut butter oatmeal cup ingredients until well combined. Depending on the protein powder you use, you may need to add an extra tablespoon or two of nut butter or maple syrup/honey to create a moister dough - you don't want it super sticky, but you don't want it to be dry!
- Grab a silicone mini muffin tin, or a similar pan. If it's not silicone, i highly recommend using parchment paper baking/muffin cups or spray them really well with spray oil.
- Divide the mixture amongst the crevices, filling each one up about 2/3 of the way
- In a small bowl, combine the chocolate and coconut oil. Heat in the microwave in 30 second increments, stirring well between each, until completely melted (alternatively, you can melt the chocolate using the double-boiler method).
- Divide the chocolate amongst the cups, filling them the last 1/3 of the way full.
- Place the tray in the freezer for at least 2-3 hours before removing the cups from the pan. Top with sea salt. Then store in an air-tight container in the freezer!
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Notes
*If you want to use old-fashioned rolled oats, I highly recommend blitzing them in a food processor so they can break down a bit!