I love my easy no-bake oatmeal peanut butter balls (and judging by how many hits that recipe gets every day, you do too!), but now that it’s fall I’m craving a bit of pumpkin in my life. I found a few oatmeal pumpkin ball recipes on other blogs, but most required too many ingredients I didn’t have on hand (liked dates and pepitas), so I decided to come up with my own pumpkin oatmeal balls recipe.
Easy No-Bake Pumpkin Oatmeal Balls
- YIELD: 24 Servings
- PREP: 15 mins
Ingredients
- 1 cup old fashioned oats (you can make this recipe gluten-free by using certified gluten-free oats)
- 3/4 cup vanilla protein powder (I used Visalus brand)
- 1/4 cup PB2 (a dry peanut butter substitute)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 Tbsp raisins (optional)
- 1/3 cup pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie mix)
Instructions
- Blend dry ingredients in large mixing bowl, and stir in raisins.
- Blend in pumpkin and mix well.
- Using hands, form into balls.
- Enjoy! (Store in a covered container in the refrigerator.)
- For a “cooked” variation, you can heat a few balls (however many you plan to eat right away) in a microwave for a few seconds. In my microwave, 15 seconds was just long enough to give them a “baked” texture without burning the raisins.
- With the ingredients I used, each of the 24 balls has about 30 calories.
Have you tried a new pumpkin recipe this fall?
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you are awesome as I need something for the child to snack on…something NEW.
now, do I really need to get my booty to the store for nutmeg? or is it “good enough” 🙂 without?
Any similar spice will do – ginger, clove, mace? OR even more cinnamon. The pumpkin is pretty bland so it does need the spices.
OH HELLO YES I WANT!
I’m totally making these – minus the raisins and plus some mini chocolate chips.
And then I’ll listen to my kids giggle at the ‘balls’. Because I live in a house of middle schoolers (husband included).
LOL. The mini chocolate chips didn’t do much for me in the peanut butter balls, but I might try something like sunflower seeds in this one — but those are similar to the pepitas I didn’t have that led me to experiment with this recipe in the first place!
Oh my–I must make! And the pb ones, too. Thanks for sharing these recipes!
The PB ones are really gooood!
These sound really good. I love using PB2 in baking (and in sauces, or pretty much anything).
These sound fabulous 🙂
checking out this vanilla protein powder right now. I will just mix protein powder with pumpkin and eat balls all day long! lol
Yum! These sound great and I just so happen to have all of these ingredients at home 🙂
What an awesome recipe!!! I love how fast & uncomplicated it is! Thanks!!
I also tried a “cooked” variation, and heated up a few balls for 15 seconds in the microwave. That was just long enough to give them a “baked” texture without burning the raisins. Another way to enjoy these as the weather gets colder!
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