{"id":77223,"date":"2026-03-02T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=77223"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:19:08","slug":"peanutbutter-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/peanutbutter-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilt-free peanut butter balls"},"content":{"rendered":"

What better way to celebrate National Peanut Butter Lovers Day than with a delicious, healthy and ridiculously easy Peanut Butter treat?! Plus, it\u2019s vegan and dorm-room friendly\u2014no oven required!<\/p>\n

Watch the video.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. 1 1\/3 cup almond flour (can sub 1 cup oat flour)<\/li>\n
    2. 1 cup peanut butter<\/li>\n
    3. 3 tablespoons maple syrup (or more if you prefer it sweeter)<\/li>\n
    4. 2 tsp vanilla<\/li>\n
    5. 1\/2 cup chocolate chips (1 cup if you prefer them extra chocolatey)<\/li>\n
    6. 1 tsp coconut oil<\/li>\n
    7. Optional: Sea salt<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. In a bowl, mix together almond (or oat) flour, peanut butter, maple syrup and vanilla. Stir until creamy smooth.<\/li>\n
        2. Roll into small, 1-inch balls and refrigerate for 20 minutes.<\/li>\n
        3. In a small bowl, heat chocolate chips and coconut oil in the microwave for 30-second increments, stirring in between, until melted.<\/li>\n
        4. Dip half of the PB balls into the melted chocolate and set on plate or tray. Before chocolate cools, sprinkle with sea salt. Repeat until all the balls are dipped.<\/li>\n
        5. Place balls in fridge for 15 minutes before eating.<\/li>\n
        6. Store in fridge.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          What better way to celebrate National Peanut Butter Lovers Day than with a delicious, healthy and ridiculously easy Peanut Butter treat?! Plus, it\u2019s vegan and dorm-room friendly\u2014no oven required! Watch the video. Ingredients: 1 1\/3 cup almond flour (can sub 1 cup oat flour) 1 cup peanut butter 3 tablespoons maple syrup (or more if…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":77225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1816,1829],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lumberjack-lifestyle","category-student-edition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}