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No Bake Pumpkin Balls are a great way to welcome fall and all things pumpkin! This recipe is also a great way to use up ½ a cup of canned pumpkin you may have leftover from another recipe. For more pumpkin recipes try my Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread, my Pumpkin Bars!
These pumpkin spice balls are made with pure, simple, superfood ingredients that are actually good for you, so it makes for a great mid-day snack or even dessert!
How do you make pumpkin balls?
Mix the dry ingredients first: oat flour, rolled oats, pumpkin spice and cane sugar. Then add the wet ingredients: almond butter, maple syrup, vanilla extract and canned pumpkin. Then mix everything together, roll them into cute bliss balls and then coat them however you’d like.
Tips for making pumpkin balls
- Heat the almond butter to make it easier to stir. If you’re using very stiff almond butter without a lot of oil, it may help to heat it up so it’s more liquid in form for mixing in.
- Adjust the sweetness to your taste. Since the recipe is no-bake, you can add more cane sugar and remove it all together based on your preference.
- Test a small amount before rolling the rest. Make sure a small amount feels like dough – not too sticky and not too dry. That will make them easier to roll.
- Make sure toppings are finely crushed. Walnuts, coconut and cacao nibs will need to be crushed finely for rolling. That will make them adhere better to the pumpkin balls.
The great thing about this pumpkin ball recipe is all the ingredients are gluten free, so it feels light but energizing. It’s also paleo-friendly and vegan so it’s an all around healthy snack that will make you feel good!
For more pumpkin recipes:
- Healthy Pumpkin Pancakes
- Pumpkin Bars
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Pumpkin Spice Latte
- Pumpkin Pasta with Crispy Sage
If you make this healthy-ish feelgood No-Bake Pumpkin Balls recipe, please be sure to leave a comment and/or give this recipe a rating! I would love to hear about your experience making it. And if you snapped some shots of it, share it with me on Instagram so I can repost on my stories!
No-Bake Pumpkin Balls
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups gluten-free oat flour or grind oats in blender until flour-like
- ¼ cup rolled oats
- 2 tablespoon cane sugar optional
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- ¼ cup almond butter or other nut butter of choice
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ½ cup pumpkin puree or pumpkin pie puree
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Shredded coconut cacao nibs and crushed walnuts for coating
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the oat flour, rolled oats, cane sugar and pumpkin pie spice, and mix well. Add the almond butter, maple syrup, vanilla extract and canned pumpkin.
- Mix well until a firm texture is formed. If it needs more moisture, add a tablespoon of canned pumpkin, and if it is too moist, you can add a tablespoon of oat flour.
- Using a spring-loaded cookie scoop or your hands to form the batter into small bite sized balls. Makes about 12-15.
- Roll balls in optional coatings (shredded coconut, chopped walnuts and cacao nibs). Enjoy immediately or refrigerate for 10 minutes to firm up.
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Notes
- For paleo option, substitute the rolled oats and oat flour with ¾ cup coconut flour
- The cane sugar can be eliminated, especially if you are using pumpkin pie puree which is usually already sweetened
Nutrition
I made these tonight and liked both of the ones I tried – rolled in cacao nibs and rolled in walnuts. I like that they’re satisfying, flavorful, and a little sweet but not too much. I will make these again.
That’s so great to hear! I love that!
Hey! This looks wonderful! Are there any substitutes for pumpkin spice?
Oh, it’s a really big part of the taste for the recipe. But you can use cinnamon or just leave it out.
These were delicious!! I loved that they kept me feeling full! They definitely put me in the holiday spirit!
Yay! So glad to hear it!
These are amazing!!!!!!thank you so much for great recipes!!!!!!!
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Hi Yumna!!!!!! Just for your opinion do you like to use almond butter or peanut just curious which one I should use thank you so much 😀😀😀
I like the taste of almond butter with these but either one works well!
Can these be frozen?
Yes they can! Enjoy!!
I seen you make this on your Snapchat and I can’t lie I’ve been thinking about them every since!! Making them tomorrow. Thanks for the inspiration
Yay! So glad to hear that! I hope you love the recipe. Thank you for the sweet words 🙂
Can you use honey instead of the maple syrup? And if I still wanted to use the oats could I use 3/4 cup of coconut flour like you said, but still use the oats? Would that be a correct measurement? Just trying to use what I have….
I’m sure I would love the original recipe though!! Love your recipes and style!!
Hi there, yes you can definitely use honey instead of maple syrup. Also, you can use coconut flour instead of oat flour, but just remember that coconut flour is extremely absorbent so you can’t substitute it 1:1. If you’re substituting the entire oats and oat flour, I would try with just 1/2 a cup or maybe at most 3/4 a cup of coconut flour. See how that goes and add 1 tablespoon at a time until you get the right consistency. The cool thing is, they’re no-bake so you can taste and adjust 🙂 Good luck and thank you so much!