Name: Trail Mix Peanut Butter Oatmeal Balls (No Bake)
Prep time: 35 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 1 1/3 cup oats; 3 tbsp coconut flakes (unsweetened); 2 tbsp pecans (chopped); 1 tbsp mini chocolate chips; 1 tbsp almonds (chopped); 2 tbsp dried blueberries; 1/4 cup peanut butter; 1/4 cup honey

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These trail mix peanut butter oatmeal balls started as a craving. I wanted no bake cookies again, but decided to change them up from my regular ones and go the trail mix route: oats, coconut, pecans, almonds, dried blueberries and a few mini chocolate chips, all held together with peanut butter and honey. No baking involved. 🙂

I have to be careful when I make these. They are just so yummy and hard to resist! 😉 The good news is they are only 1 Point each, so a couple in my lunch bag is an easy yes. With peanut butter and nuts in every bite, they make a great snack on the go, and a batch keeps in the fridge all week.

We used to call these trail mix no bake cookies. But you roll them into balls, not cookies, so the name finally caught up with the recipe.

Trail mix peanut butter oatmeal balls with dried blueberries and chocolate chips piled in a red bowl

Why try these peanut butter oatmeal balls?

One bowl, no oven. Stir, chill, roll. That is the whole recipe.
Trail mix in every bite. Chewy oats, toasty pecans and almonds, sweet dried blueberries, a little coconut, and just enough chocolate.
Only 1 Point each. One batch makes 20, so there is always one waiting in the fridge.
Built for the lunch bag. Peanut butter and nuts make them satisfying, and they travel without falling apart.
Easy to make your own. Any nut, any dried fruit, a different nut butter. More on that below.

Prep Time: 35 minutes (includes 30 minutes chilling)

Cook Time: 0 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Servings: 20

Serving Size: 1 ball

1 WW Point Per Serving. You can view the recipe on the WW App here. (WW login required.)

Ingredients

Think of this as trail mix that learned to stick together. The oats are the base, the nuts and fruit and chips are the fun part, and the peanut butter and honey are the glue. Everything goes in one bowl.

1 1/3 cups oats. Quick or old fashioned both work; quick oats make a softer, more compact ball, old fashioned give you more chew.
3 tablespoons unsweetened coconut flakes
2 tablespoons chopped pecans
1 tablespoon chopped almonds
2 tablespoons dried blueberries, for little bursts of sweet
1 tablespoon mini chocolate chips, just enough that every ball gets a few
1/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup honey

Oats, peanut butter, honey, dried blueberries, coconut flakes, pecans and mini chocolate chips in a glass bowl before mixing

Instructions

Mix all of your ingredients together in a bowl. Keep stirring until every oat is coated and there are no dry bits hiding at the bottom.

Trail mix oatmeal ball mixture stirred together in a glass bowl

Let the bowl sit in the fridge for 30 minutes. This is the step that makes them hold together. The peanut butter and honey firm up, the oats soak up a little moisture, and the mixture goes from sticky to scoopable.
Using your hands, roll the mixture into 20 balls. It helps to have your hands a little wet so the mixture sticks to itself instead of to you. Store in a sealed container in the fridge.

No bake peanut butter oatmeal balls rolled and piled in a white square dish

Variations and substitutions

Any nut works. Walnuts, cashews, or all pecans if that is what you have. Keep the total at 3 tablespoons chopped so the balls still hold.
Any dried fruit works too. Dried cranberries, chopped dried cherries, raisins, or chopped dried apricots in place of the blueberries.
Almond butter swaps in for the peanut butter one for one. A drippy natural nut butter gives a softer mixture; a thicker one gives a firmer ball. Either way, chill before rolling.
Chocolate, more or less. Skip the chips, or trade them for cacao nibs.
Not a coconut person? Leave it out and add another tablespoon of oats.

Swaps change the points, so run your version through the WW App if you change things.

Tips and tricks

Do not skip the chill. Warm peanut butter and honey are runny, and runny does not roll. Thirty minutes in the fridge is what turns this from a bowl of sticky oats into no bake oatmeal bites that keep their shape.
Wet hands, every few balls. Rinse and re-wet whenever the mixture starts clinging to you instead of to itself.
Portion with a tablespoon. A level scoop gets you 20 balls of the same size, which keeps the 1 Point per ball honest.
Too crumbly to roll? Stir in a little more peanut butter or honey, a teaspoon at a time. Too sticky? Chill it longer.
How long do they keep? In a sealed container in the fridge, about a week.
Yes, you can freeze them. Freeze on a plate until firm, then move to a freezer bag, up to about 3 months. Let one sit on the counter a few minutes, or eat it straight from the freezer.

Two trail mix oatmeal balls on a wooden board with coconut flakes and chocolate chips scattered around

More no bake snacks

If you like these no bake energy bites, the no bake shelf around here runs deep. My Weight Watchers no bake cookies are the sweet and salty version, and the Nutella no bake cookies are for the chocolate people. For more grab-and-go ideas, these 10 homemade Weight Watchers snacks with 1 Point each are the same idea in ten different forms, and the Weight Watchers snacks section has the whole lineup.

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