Ballz for All
Hi friends! How are you? I am blown away by all of the amazing comments and emails on the Winter Shape Up! Keep rocking it out 🙂
(Holler to my friend Mara who made the widget for the WSU on the left-hand side of the blog– you can click it to get to this week’s meals and workout plan)
Some Mexican skeletons to start the day 😀
So last night, I wanted a little snack before dance but didn’t know what to make. Something small (dancing on a full belly is a little rough) with a decent amount of protein, something dessert-y, not too high in fats.. and then it dawned on me:
BALLZ!
I remembered seeing a recipe for protein balls on the BodyRock website—here’s my version:
Chocolate Chip Protein Ballz
Adapted from Shweddy Balls
-2 T vanilla or chocolate protein powder of choice
-2 T of almond butter (drippy almond butter works best)
-2 T shredded unsweetened coconut
-1 T pure maple syrup (honey or brown rice syrup would work too)
-pinch of sea salt, Stevia and cinnamon
1. In a small food processor, add the protein, almond butter, coconut and pulse until the ingredients are well incorporated
2. Add the cinnamon, sea salt, Stevia and sweetener (maple syrup or whatever you decide to use) and pulse again- the mixture will start to clump together. It wants to be made into balls!
Not quite, though.
3. Add in 1 square of extra dark chocolate (break it apart with your hands), or whatever mix-ins you’d like to use. Dried berries would be delicious, too. Pulse together one more time to finely chop the chocolate, and assess the situation to see if you’ll need more liquid sweetener for the balls to stick together.
4. Roll mixture into 4 balls with your hands.
Save in a ziploc baggie and munch for the perfect pre or post workout snack.
Check out the stats on these babies!!!
Amazing and SO DELICIOUS. They taste like cookie dough balls, I kid you not. Make these ASAP, mmm k?
For breakfast this morning, since I still had ballz and cookie dough on the brain, I had an old fave:
+ my daily green juice
(Current fave combo: 1 cucumber, 1 green apple, 1 stalk of romaine, 1/2 lemon, lil Stevia)
I’m off to do the workout thang 🙂 Have a great day and I’ll see you laterrrrrrrr.
xoxo
Gina
What’s your pre and post workout fuel of choice?
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What little food processor do you use? I’ve been considering getting one in the future since I live alone and would love to whip up small batches for things. My VitaMix is awesome, but you have to make a certain amount for it to work properly.
it’s a little cuisinart. i love it!
Is the serving size one ball per serving? Sorry, I’m new here!! I absolutely love your blog though! 🙂
yes, but i usually like 2 for a snack
oh, thank you so much for your great article.
E.
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So, I have been looking at this recipe a lot and I really want to make it. However, I am not a coconut fan…will leaving it out be detrimental?
nope! just use more oat flour or some almond meal instead 🙂
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I saw this recipe and hope and prayed I would like it as I quadrupled the recipe to use in my regular size food processor. Thankfully I love them and glad they worked with my vegan Hammer Nutrition chocolate protein powder! I have 18 balls now – I made them all 20 grams.
Hi Gina,
What do you make your juice with? That combination looks very refreshing!
i use a jack lalanne juicer and love it
I’m about to travel for 2 weeks and wondered about making some of these to take along. How long would you guess they last?
i think at least 5 days, but i usually eat them by then 😉
what brand almond nut butter do you find runny? Mine are always so hard. Have you tried other types of butter besides almond? Or do you prefer almond? thanks much.
trader joe’s brand is usually pretty runny 🙂
We don’t have Trader Joe’s, but have an Earthfare and I bought smooth almond butter made by “Once Again” and it worked GREAT!
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Getting back into shape after baby #2 and made these for a post gym snack. My 2yr old grabbed one, took a bite and announced “Mmmm, deeeeelicious” before I even got to sample one!
amazing! liv loves them too
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