No-Bake Peanut Butter Cup Energy Balls (That Actually Taste Like the Real Thing)

What You're Getting Into

• 10 minutes of actual work. 30 minutes of waiting. That's the whole time commitment.
• Tastes like a peanut butter cup decided to become a snack you could eat at your desk without judgment.
• The collagen is optional but easy. The second one is not optional.

About the Star Ingredient: BNutty Peanut Butter Cup peanut butter tastes exactly like its name — creamy peanut butter with a genuine chocolate situation happening. When you roll it into little balls with oats and honey and chocolate chips it becomes something that feels like dessert but is technically a snack. We love a technicality.

The Recipe

Makes about 18 balls  ·  Prep: 10 minutes  ·  Refrigerate: 30 minutes  ·  Effort level: genuinely minimal

What You Need:

• 1 cup rolled oats
• ½ cup BNutty Peanut Butter Cup peanut butter
• ⅓ cup honey or maple syrup
• ½ cup chocolate chips
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Pinch of salt
• 1 scoop Java Momma Feeling Fine Collagen Peptides (optional but easy)

What You Do:

1. Dump everything into a bowl. Stir until it comes together. It will look like a mess and then suddenly not be a mess. Trust the process.
2. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for 30 minutes. This is not optional — warm peanut butter balls are a different and worse experience.
3. Roll into balls about the size of a tablespoon. A cookie scoop makes this faster if you have one.
4. Put them back in the fridge for another 15 minutes to firm up, or eat one immediately because you've earned it.
5. Store in the fridge in a container for up to a week. They won't last that long.

The Variations (Because You're Going to Make These More Than Once)

• Make them more chocolatey: Add a tablespoon of cocoa powder to the mix. You're welcome.
• Make them crunchier: Use crunchy peanut butter or add a handful of chopped peanuts.
• Make them fancier than they need to be: Melt a little chocolate and drizzle it over the top after they firm up. Now they look intentional.
• Make them with whatever nut butter is open on your counter: The recipe works with any of the BNutty flavors. Blueberry is a weird choice that somehow works. Pretzel peanut butter is an excellent choice. Unicorn Poop from Blind Side Nut Butters is a choice you will have to explain to your children.

A Word About the Collagen:

If you're new to the Feeling Fine Collagen Peptides — it's unflavored, grass-fed bovine collagen that dissolves completely into whatever you're making. You add it, you stir, it disappears. No chalky texture, no weird aftertaste, no changes to the recipe. Just a scoop of protein quietly doing its job while you pretend you meal prepped. One scoop per batch. That's it. That's the whole instruction.