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Looking for a healthy recipe for energy balls featuring pumpkin? This easy, healthy recipe for Pumpkin Spice Energy Balls is vegan, gluten-free and delicious!
Ingredients
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Energy Bites:
- 3/4 cup old-fashioned oats
- 2 tablespoons hemp seeds
- 2 tablespoons chia seeds
- 2 tablespoons flax seeds
- ½ cup walnut pieces
- ¼ cup pumpkin seeds
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice blend
- 1/3 cup dried raisins (or cranberries)
- 1 cup canned (or cooked) pumpkin
- 10 small soft dates, pitted
- 1/3 cup creamy natural peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Topping:
- 1/3 cup pumpkin seeds
Instructions
- Place oats, hemp, chia, flax, walnut, ¼ cup pumpkin seeds, pumpkin pie spice blend, and dried raisins (or cranberries) in the container of a food processor. Process for a few seconds, just until ingredients are finely ground.
- Add pumpkin, dates, peanut butter, and vanilla and process for a few minutes until smooth, pausing to scrape down sides as needed. Should be a smooth, finely ground, sticky texture.
- Pour mixture into a bowl, cover, and chill for about 1 hour.
- Remove from refrigerator and form into small balls (makes 28 balls) with hands.
- Place 1/3 cup pumpkin seeds in a small dish and roll each ball into the pumpkin seeds to coat.
- Store in refrigerator in an airtight container.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Bites
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bite
- Calories: 84
- Sugar: 3 g
- Sodium: 16 mg
- Fat: 4 g
- Saturated Fat: 1 g
- Carbohydrates: 9 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 3 g
Being a new convert to the WFPF way of eating, I am enjoying your recipes that you share on your website. One of my difficulties with adapting to this way of eating is that I have to eat a GF diet so oatmeal is a grain I have to avoid. What do you suggest as an alternative to oatmeal used in your recipes, i.e. Pumpkin Spice Energy Bites? SS
Oats are a gluten-free grain. The only thing that can be an issue is that they can be contaminated in the processing plant as the equipment often comes into contact with wheat. But if you look for certified gluten-free oats, they do not have gluten.
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Hi Sharon, this pumpkin energy bites are so clever and look so delicious. Thanks for posting, what a great treat for the holidays.