These Vegan Gingerbread Protein Balls are simple and nutritious and make a great snack, workout fuel, or dessert!
Hi Friends!
Time for another tasty guest post. Allow me to introduce you to my girl Deryn from Running on Real Food. I discovered her blog late last year and I’m obsessed with it. She posts amazing recipes, great blogging tips, and so much more! If you haven’t already checked her out, go do so immediately. Today she’s here to share a delicious snack with you guys!
Hi, everyone! I am so excited to be posting here on The Lean Green Bean today! I started following Lindsay’s blog a few years ago, just before I decided to start my own healthy living blog, Running on Real Food. She’s been a great inspiration to me and I never would have thought one day I’d have the honour of guest posting here. I’m so glad we were able to connect through the wonderful community of healthy living bloggers.
I’ve learned a lot from Lindsay over the last few years and not just about blogging. I’ve discovered a ton of healthy living bloggers through her Blog Roll and Bean Bytes posts, I’ve been inspired to food prep, enjoyed many of her recipes, been motivated by fitness posts, and learned a lot about nutrition.
For my post today, I decided to share one of my favorite kinds of recipes: no-bake energy balls! If you’ve been following Running on Real Food, you’re probably familiar with my love for really, really easy snack recipes. Everyone seems to be busy these days, and I think we can all use simple, yet nutritious and delicious recipes in our lives. Having healthy snacks on hand can prevent overeating, help you make better food choices, get you through that afternoon slump, and provide the energy you need for busy days and tough workouts.
Today’s no-bake energy ball variety features one of my favourite flavours: gingerbread! The molasses and ground ginger give them that classic gingerbread flavour while the cashew butter, protein powder, and ground flax provide an excellent nutritional profile. These are backed with fibre, protein, and essential fatty acids and they taste just like gingerbread cookie dough!
I hope you all enjoy this recipe! Thanks again for having me today, Lindsay!
Gingerbread Protein Balls
A taste of the holidays, all year round.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup cashew butter
- 1/3 cup Vega Perfomance Protein in Vanilla (1 serving)
- 1/3 cup ground flax seeds
- 3 tbsp molasses
- 1 tsp ginger
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
Optional Coatings
- -finely chopped pecans or walnuts (pictured)
- -unsweetened fine coconut
- -cocoa powder
- -quick oats
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix until it forms a dough.
- Roll into balls and then roll in your choice of coating
- Store in the fridge.
Note from Lindsay: How did she know I’m OBSESSED with gingerbread?! Cannot wait to try these.
Deryn is a Vancouver-based healthy living blogger at runningonrealfood.com. She blogs about nutritious, vegan recipes, workouts and tips to living a healthy, balanced lifestyle.
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Huge thanks to Deryn for sharing these delicious little treats with us today!
Try Vegan Gingerbread Energy Balls from @leangrnbeanblog & @runonrealfood for a tasty snack!Click To TweetLet’s chat:
What your favorite flavor combo for a no-bake snack?
Enjoy!
–Lindsay–
Oh baby! I am definitely going to adopt some sort of formulation like this, which includes the vega, cinnamon, flax, etc – YUM! 🙂 I love these flavors too!
yum! my favorite flavor has to be birthday cake! 🙂
I really need to try cashew butter! These gingerbread protein balls looks so good!
I LOVE cashew butter!! And I am a big fan of ginger so these look fantastic! My favourite energy combo is anything with cashews and cinnamon – so good!
I’m all about chocolate & pb in my no bake protein balls but these sound soooo good 🙂
This looks really interesting – I have never had a no-bake protein ball and don’t recognise some of the ingredients, off to check out this ladies blog now.
Ooh I love molasses! Beautiful photographs, too. 🙂
Oooh love gingerbread flavor. I also like anything with peanut butter!
mmm sounds great! we love gingerbread flavors
Ahhh thank you Deryn! I love bites of all kind but gingerbread?? Genius. Pinning 🙂
I LOVE gingerbread! These sound amazing!
Right up my ally. Ginger is one of my favorite spices!
These sound SO awesome! I LOVE molasses AND Vega One, so these would be perfect for me. Gotta love having convenient snacks on hand, too 🙂
These look amazing! I can’t wait to try them.
oh my gosh! I love gingerbread everything!! These look sooo yummy!
What a good idea, this would make a super yummy dessert, and I love that thy’re full of protein. I make energy balls pretty often, I’ll have to put this on the list to try!
I always love anything peanut butter or chocolate flavor. Easy enough.
I am going to have to try these! I am pinning for later!
These sound fabulous! I am all about anything ginger!
These sound amazing! Thank you for sharing them with us!!!
WOW! I made these immediately after I saw them except that I don’t have cashew butter and I used peanut free Nuttzo instead. They are sweet and delicious!
For non-bake snacks, pretty much anything that involves a lot of nut butters.
yay! glad you loved them!
These look fantastic!! must try 🙂
I haven’t tried protein balls yet. These look delicious and your pictures are amazing too!
Yum! Pinned! Thanks Deryn!
Thanks for all the comments everyone!! And thanks again for having me today, Lindsay 🙂 Hope you all enjoy the recipe!
My go-to recently has been a Cinnamon Toast Rice Cake, topped with almond butter and sprinkled with chia seeds. Yummy!!
that sounds delicious!
GINGERBREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! PROTEIN BALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These look delicious!
Looks delicious!
Those sound amazing!!
I really like the simplicity of this recipe! Quick, delicious and give you an energy boost! Gingerbread is definitely my favourite choice of flavour for these protein balls 😀
Can’t wait to try these. Is there a place I can find out the nutritional info on these per serving?
you could put the recipe into my fitness pal!
How many grams of protein, fat and sugar per ball? Thanks 🙂
I’m not sure. You could put the recipe into my fitness pal to find out!
Move over pumpkin… It’s time for the real MVP – gingerbread!! Totally trying these. They look amazing!
I love gingerbread, its my favorite holiday treat! These are perfect for a quick post workout snack 🙂
Homemade snack balls are my favorite and I love this recipe with the holiday spin.
ooo yum!! Perfect for after my winter workouts 🙂
These look amazing; can’t wait to try them. One question…do you use freshly ground ginger or the dry ginger “powder?”
the powder!