Last Updated on August 11, 2022 by Rebecca Huff
No one will believe these Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Dessert Balls are sugar-free! Yes, they're that good.
Just let them go on thinking it's unhealthy.
While “chocolate peanut butter balls” might make you think of buckeyes or the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup type of dessert, these are a bit different. They are cheesecake meets buckeye.
Friends have described them as similar to truffles. Looking at the macros you might call them peanut butter fat bombs. No matter what you call them, they'll satisfy your sweet craving without blowing your diet.
Keto Peanut Butter Balls
Originally I created these no bake nut butter balls for the Trim Healthy Mama group I hosted at my home. It was such a huge hit that I kept it in my rotation even when I switched to a keto diet.
This recipe works as a dessert for Low Carb dieters, Ketogenic, and other Sugar-Free Diets! I originally created this recipe for the Trim Healthy Mama diet, but it works just fine for those using the Ketogenic diet for weight loss or health.
You can use any sweetener you prefer. A couple to try are Pyure Organic Confectioner or Swerve confectioners. If you don't avoid sugar, you can simply use organic cane sugar.
For those of us who prefer keto recipes or desserts without sugar, you can make keto peanut butter balls using powdered monk fruit, allulose, or erythritol. All will give good results. (My children make them with maple syrup sometimes, my youngest daughter has a strong sweet tooth.)
THM Friendly Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
My household likes creamy peanut butter as the base for these. I've used crunchy peanut butter as well and it adds a nice satisfying crunch. If you prefer not to use peanut butter, substitute with almond butter. Cashew butter is delicious, for sure, but the carb content is a bit higher. If that matters to you, stick with peanut or almond butter.
Speaking of substitutions, these are amazing with an additional 1/4 cup of chopped macadamia nuts.
They're delicious just as they are without a coating or being dipped. Still, if you want to go the extra mile you can also make a peanut butter hardshell or chocolate hard shell to coat them. As you can see in the video below, we used sugar-free chocolate chips.
You can also use unsweetened bakers chocolate and add your own stevia or other sweetener to save money. Bakers chocolate is usually less expensive than sugar-free chocolate chips. Another method for coating them is to mix coconut oil with cocoa powder and the sweetener of your choice.
Tips For Making Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
You can use a cookie scoop to keep the size uniform, but you might still want to shape them up a bit by hand. Chilling the dough a little bit before rolling can help.
Nana hand rolled these (I teased her for not getting them round) and I coated them in a hard shell. I also asked her to roll out 24 instead of 12 this time so we'd have more. I used these cute little animal pics so we wouldn't have to get our fingers messy! Not always perfect, but definitely delicious. My son doesn't like to touch food and always prefers to use picks or utensils for everything, even these.
Once you've added the chocolate coating (if you decide to do so) let them harden on a wax paper or parchment paper lined baking sheet until they're dry to the touch.
They store well for about two weeks in an airtight container in the fridge. You can keep them at room temperature if your house is on the cool side, but they probably won't last as long.
If you liked this recipe, you might want to check out my menu plans. I come up with a few ideas from time to time! Here's one of my favorite THM menu plans.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls – THM Friendly
Ingredients
- 8 oz Neufchatel Cream Cheese ⅓ less fat
- ¾ cup crunchy peanut butter or smooth if you prefer
- ½ cup of Confectioners Style Sweetener Like this one
- ¼ cup Lily’s Dark Chocolate Stevia Sweetened Baking Chips
Instructions
- You won’t find many dessert recipes that come together this easily! Simply throw the first three ingredients into a mixer and mix until combined. Turn off mixer and add the chocolate chips stirring just till combined. Form into 12 balls.
Video
Whether you use these as Keto Fat Bombs or a simple Keto Dessert, you'll enjoy eating them all the same. You'll be happy knowing your dessert contains zero added sugar and you're sticking to your goals. Because nut butter and cream cheese both contain protein and fat, these could be considered energy balls!
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Like these? Then you will LOVE my other keto snacks and low carb recipes.
For example try my Low Carb Salted Caramel Peanut Crunch Chocolate Bars made with Catalina Crunch cereal and topped with melted chocolate. See how yummy they are!
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They’re kinda like PB cheesecake meets cookie dough
Do you bake these? Am I missing that part of the instructions? Thank you!
No you do not bake these! You eat them cold.
I made these tonight and it was such an easy treat thank you ?. I was surprised at how 2 were almost too much to eat in one setting.
I’m glad you liked them! Yes, they are very filling! My favorite way is to add chopped macadamia nuts!
I bought some Peanut Delight Natural Creamy Peanut Butter Spread at Aldi’s and I noticed it had cane sugar in the ingredient list. What are the on plan peanut butters? Thanks
I am not familiar with this but I do avoid any nut butters that say “spread” as that usually indicates “other” ingredients. As far as what nut butters are on plan, you can find lots of natural style peanut butter brands all you have to do is look at the ingredient list first. I usually buy mine at Trader Joe’s so it is the store brand. But I have found several at Kroger, Target, Publix and Costco where I live. The brand isn’t as important as the ingredient list. All that should be in it is peanuts and salt.
Now, I have a question for you, what do you like to buy at Aldi? I have been in two and I didn’t really see much in the way of fresh foods, it looked like all processed foods. Is that true everywhere or does our town just have a poor selection? Thanks for checking out my recipe!
My Aldi’s in Alabaster, Al is carrying fresh produce.
I’ll have to try again locally with a fresh perspective…
Aldi has another natural organic peanut butter that is very good, just peanuts and salt. I also get my cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, cheeses, butter, eggs, frozen and fresh veggies, and brown rice there at a lower price than anywhere else. They also have many more products (nuts, chia seeds, almond milk etc.) that I don’t purchase there because I am able to get them cheaper at our Sam’s Club.
I’ve only been in Aldi 2 times, both times I couldn’t find anything but processed foods… the meats all had nitrates.. I’ll have to go check again for the items you mentioned. Either I overlooked the good stuff or our local Aldi doesn’t carry some of them? Thank you for the suggestion. I really WANT to find good deals at Aldi like I keep hearing about!
What would the nutrition facts be if prepared and portioned exactly as described? I use my fitness pal and was going to put the nutrition facts in, and my mom does Weight Watchers so was going to calculate the number of points for her!
This sounds great! Can’t wait to get the ingredients and make them!! Thank you!!!
I actually did calculate the nutrition facts on myfitness pal and I’ll add a screenshot to this blog post so you can see it. 1/12 of the recipe is 152 calories, 13 grams of fat, 4 carbs, 1 gram of dietary fiber so net carbs is 3 grams, 6 grams of protein. If you want to see the recipe, you can add me as a friend on myfitnesspal, my username is ThatOrganicMom 🙂
To clear up any confusion, the screenshot numbers above are a little different than what I put in the reply list, because when I originally added the recipe to myfitnesspal I had used Trader Joe’s Chia and Flax Peanut Butter, it has 1 gram more carb per serving than just plain ‘ole natural peanut butter. So I calculated it a second time with just regular (no seeds) peanut butter! I hope that doesn’t cause any confusion!
Jenny, I also wanted to mention it, since you already use myfitnesspal, you can calculate the nutrition facts for virtually any recipe you find on the internet quite simply. Here’s where I show how to do it on myfitnesspal. https://youtu.be/eSnMVkAZ8uw
Is this S or E category? How many is 1 serving?
This is an S dessert and 1/12 of the recipe is a serving. I made 12 really big ones the first time, then the next time I did 24 and ate two. I think from now on though, I’ll do 36 and eat 3 because they’ll last longer and you can just pop one little one in your mouth rather than taking bites of a giant one. You know?
I’m super excited about these. Mine came out a little runny. I’m wondering if you could use half pb and half peanut flour.
Runny? Hmmm. What kind of peanut butter did you use? I’m sure they would come out great with peanut flour. I may have to give that a try to see! Let me know if you try it that way? Thanks!
You did AMAZING! You are a ROCKSTAR!
Thank you!!!