Nut Butter Protein Balls

Name: Nut Butter Protein Balls
Total time: 900 s
Yield: 10 pieces
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 12 oz almond butter; 4 oz smooth peanut butter; 1/2 cup toasted, ground golden flax seed; 1 cup hazelnuts, coarsely chopped; 1 cup Montmorency cherries, sliced in half; 1/2 cup cocoa powder; 1/2 cup chocolate whey protein powder; 1 tbsp espresso powder; 1/2 tsp fine sea salt (if you use salted peanut butter, otherwise 3/4); 4 tbsp maple syrup; 2 tbsp blackstrap molasses; 1/2 tsp vanilla

Jim Kennedy @jimkmaus

Almond and peanut butter, chopped hazelnuts, cocoa, and dried cherries give protein a flavorful blast to get an after workout boost of energy.

Jim Kennedy @jimkmaus

Almond and peanut butter, chopped hazelnuts, cocoa, and dried cherries give protein a flavorful blast to get an after workout boost of energy.

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Ingredients

15 minutes

10 pieces

12 ozalmond butter
4 ozsmooth peanut butter
1/2 cuptoasted, ground golden flax seed
1 cuphazelnuts, coarsely chopped
1 cupMontmorency cherries, sliced in half
1/2 cupcocoa powder
1/2 cupchocolate whey protein powder
1 tbspespresso powder
1/2 tspfine sea salt (if you use salted peanut butter, otherwise 3/4)
4 tbspmaple syrup
2 tbspblackstrap molasses
1/2 tspvanilla

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Steps

15 minutes

1

Preheat oven to 350º
2

On a silpat lined baking sheet, bake the flax seed for 8 minutes, being careful not to burn.
3

Remove from the oven, transfer to a bowl and cool for 15 minutes.
4

Chop the hazelnuts coarsely.
5

Slice the cherries in half, reserve.
6

Grind the flax seed into a coarse powder.
7

In a medium mixing bowl, whisk the dry ingredients: cocoa powder, chocolate whey protein, espresso powder, flax powder, and salt.
8

In a separate mixing bowl, stir the maple syrup, molasses, and vanilla extract. Fold in the chopped nuts and cherries.
9

Fold in both nut butters.
10

Add the dry ingredients, 1/3 at a time. Don’t be afraid to get your hands sticky!
11

Separate into 1 oz. balls, wrap in plastic, refrigerate.
12

Workout.
13

Consume.