Chocolate Tahini Butter Balls are about to be your new addiction so consider this your warning. This super-simple, super-fast no-bake recipe turns your favorite nut butter into a satisfyingly sweet snack when you mix in cocoa powder, oats, a little brown sugar and some mini-chocolate chips. Chocolate Tahini Butter Balls are a quick-hit of protein and they travel well.
How Chocolate Tahini Butter Balls Happened
I was waiting out a delay at the airport a few weeks ago. I’d already had dinner, but as the clock crept later and later I realized I would likely be starving by the time I got halfway through the flight home. I started scouting out the food stands for possible options.
I came across a peanut butter protein bite and decided it would be just the right thing. It turned out to be the beginning of an addiction. I decided to recreate them. After a few iterations, chocolate tahini butter balls were born.
Delicious Doesn’t Have to be Hard
This recipe for Chocolate Tahini Butter Balls takes 5 minute to make. No stove, no oven. Only one dirty bowl. Depending on how sticky your nut butter of choice is, you may want to refrigerate the mixture for 20 minutes before shaping it into balls. I don’t bother and mine work out just fine.
Chocolate Tahini Butter Balls – TSA Approved
For those of you who travel often for work, you know what it’s like to get a snack attack at 10pm. You’re in a hotel room and the options are pretty sparse. If the hotel has a market at all, you know you’re going to end up either eating crap or eating way more than you need.
Chocolate Tahini Butter Balls are about to be your new favorite travel companion. Pop a couple in a plastic travel container and take them with you. They will live just fine outside the refrigerator and they’re the perfect late-night snack attack solution. Their also TSA approved 🙂
Big Spoon Roasters Nut Butters
For this recipe, you’re going to combine your favorite nut butter (peanut, almond or cashew) with tahini, cocoa and oats. When I developed this recipe, I used Big Spoon Roasters Vanilla Caramel Almond & Cashew Butter which is the best thing ever but any nut butter will work.
Whole Foods sells Big Spoon Roasters though they usually only have one or two options. I buy mine direct from the manufacturer 3 at a time.
If you don’t have a favorite nut butter (or are still eating Jif or Peter Pan), you should check out Big Spoon Roasters products. They have all kinds of fun flavors and combos (and they use almonds or cashews or both instead of peanuts). They make limited batch nut butters with organic, clean ingredients.
You’d think the Vanilla Caramel butter would be full of artificial sweeteners, but there are only 5 ingredients: heirloom Mission almonds, organic cashews, organic maple syrup, organic coconut nectar, vanilla and sea salt.
Chocolate Tahini Butter Balls
One of the best things about this recipe for Chocolate Tahini Butter Balls is you only need a bowl. Don’t bother with measuring cups. Just eyeball it. Chocolate Tahini Butter Balls are not an exact science, so have fun.
For all my friends who think my recipes are too complicated, this one’s for you!
Ingredients
- 1 cup nut butter
- 1/2 cup tahini
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup oats
- 1.5 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
- 2 tsp maple syrup
- pinch kosher salt
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine all ingredients. Don't worry about dirtying up measuring cups. Just eyeball it. Use a fork to mix until combined. Use your hands to shape into bite-sized balls. Keep refrigerated, but they do fine at room temp if you are traveling or taking them to work. If they batter is really sticky, you may want to add more oats or refrigerate the mixture for 20 minutes to make it easier to shape into balls.
Nutrition
Love Tahini? Need More Chocolate?
If you love tahini, check out Jenny’s Salted Blueberry Tahini Smoothie. For a chocolate fix, check out my post from summer where I invented Indoor S’mores.
