Who wouldn’t want to eat a Mudball?! These treats give the idea of making mud pies a whole new meaning!
These are great fun to make…and great fun to eat!
Just ask my boys…who have gone through about 4 double batches of them since Jayme sent me the recipe!
As Jayme put it…
“Sometimes we eat them warm right out of the pan…sometimes we eat chill them and then eat them…but mostly…we just EAT them!”
Perfectly said!
You have to try these! They are a great snack to have on hand in the fridge. And they really do just take about five minutes to make.
Mudballs
1/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup wheat germ
1/2 cup oats
1/4 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup sesame seeds or flax seeds
Cook the peanut butter and honey over low heat until melted. Add remaining ingredients. When cool enough to handle roll into oohey gooey mud balls.
Have fun! Let me know if you don’t like the name of these treats just as much as my boys do!
UPDATE
Every time I make these, I have to do way too much mental math to figure out how to make a large batch. Finally I realized that I needed to update this post with an additional recipe card to help us all just make these without having to stretch our brains to figure out how many 1/4 cups are in 40 ounces. Oy.
You may wish I had some sort of happy medium recipe – somewhere between Tiny Recipe and Monster Recipe. I suggest that you might want to cut the Monster Recipe in half, or make the big recipe and then wrap/freeze some Mudballs for another time!
NOTE: If you do the math, you’ll notice that not all of the ingredient amounts listed above are multiplied the same. This is because I refuse to use that much honey, which then changes the liquid consistency of the big batch. What you see below is how I make these now as I use a 40-ounce jar of our favorite peanut butter from Sam’s. (40-ounces is 5-cups, by the way. You can see then, that I don’t want to use 5-cups of honey!?!?! These are perfectly sweet with way less honey!)
Monster-Sized Recipe for Mudballs
- 40 ounce jar natural peanut butter
- 1 cup honey
- 1 cup wheat germ
- 1 cup flax seeds (ground or regular)
- 1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
- 1½ cups chocolate chips
- 4 cups oats
- Cook and stir the peanut butter and honey over low heat until melted together
- Add remaining ingredients.
- Use a medium-sized cookie scoop to form balls.
- Store in an air tight container.
