Peanut butter Energy Bites

I know I mentioned yesterday I was in the kitchen quite a bit...I am always looking for something new that is easy to have in the morning for breakfast.  I have never been much of a breakfast eater - however, I do know that it is the most important meal of the day.  

I would love to plan accordingly and make something delicious every morning but that isn't going down!  So what can we do to make sure that this happens?  Well I have already shared with you the blueberry energy bites - which have been a huge hit with everyone that has had them.  I started looking up other bites that did not have an oat base and found a ton.  So we will start to try each one weekly to determine which ones are keepers and which ones fall just a little short.

This weeks creation was so simple that I am sure you can knock it out in no time and well...after having a few this morning I am giving them two thumbs up!  Now if only they will provide the energy that I think they are supposed to we will be off to a great day!

Very simple...are you ready there are seriously only 2 ingredients which means there are about 3 total steps...get ready....here we go!

Step 1 - get the pits out of your dates!  Again you can buy the pitted ones but its way way cheaper to just buy the big tub!  The recipe called for about 11 dates (or 1 cup) I ended up using about 20 because the consistency wasn't where I wanted it to be. 

Step 2 - get your food processor out and dump the peanuts (I used about a cup) and dates in and mix until you get a sticky dough like consistency..side note..put your peanuts in the food processor first and grind those up, then add the dates - I tried it the other way this time and well  it was almost an epic failure! 

Step 3 - using your small cookie scoop - make some peanut butter energy bites!  I dropped them on to my handy dandy cutting sheets and then once all of the "dough" was dropped - I rolled them into pretty balls!

Here is the final product - as you can see I got about 2 dozen out of this mixture - which means that there are enough for about 8 days of breakfasts if you eat 3!  They seriously taste just like peanut butter cookie dough - but healthy and no risk of salmonella poisoning from consuming raw eggs!   

Not a lot of effort but a pretty good payoff

Enjoy and happy cookin'!