MADDIE DAY here, delighted to host my uber-talented friend, Amanda Flower! Her new Truffle Trouble, the tenth Amish Candy Shop mystery, releases at the end of this month, and two lucky commenters will win an audiobook version of Gingerbread Danger, book nine in the series. Amanda brings us a recipe for peanut butter energy balls, something I'm sure she needs in order to write ten (or however many) books a year AND provide a home with her husband for many needy cats.
Take it away, Amanda.
In the name of research for the Amish Candy Shop Mysteries that have been a part of my life for over ten years, I eat a lot of candy. It’s research. It’s work. Don’t judge. However because of that, sometimes I want something sweet that I can at least claim is good for me.
If you
are like me, you have seen the seemingly sudden craving for protein all over
the place last couple of years. The love or protein is all well and good.
However, I am always a vegetarian and sometimes a vegan, so there are
challenges to get the protein that people keep telling me that I need. A girl
can only eat so much tofu.
So one
sweet way that I add more protein to my diet is with these energy balls. They
are sweet, delicious, and a great pick me up during the afternoon slump. I
should note that I make my with peanut butter and peanut butter chips, but if
you have allergies to nuts, you can use any kind of nut butter or sunflower
butter instead. Also, the sky is the limit on the kind of chips. I just love
peanut butter. Another addition you can make to the recipe is adding protein
powder if you are really want to up your grams per day.
Bailey
King from the Amish Candy Shop Mysteries
would certainly approve of this recipe because she is a woman on the go. With
all the jobs she juggles plus solving multiple murders a year in Ohio’s Amish
Country, she needs to keep her energy up. I could definitely see her adding
these to her offerings at Swissmen Candyworks. She is going to need more offerings
too after her wedding and the murder that occurs in during the reception at her
candy factory! You can read all about it in Truffle
Trouble, the tenth novel in the Amish Candy Shop Mysteries,
releasing on March 31st.
Peanut Butter Energy Balls
Ingredients
·
1 ¼ cups old fashioned rolled oats
·
½ peanut butter
·
¼ cup chia seeds
·
½ cup walnuts
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¾ cup peanut butter chips
·
2 tablespoons of maple syrup
·
¼ teaspoon salt
·
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
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Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
·
Refrigerate for at least thirty minutes. It
makes the balls easier to roll.
·
Roll balls to the desired size.
Enjoy and store in the refrigerator.
Readers: How would you change this recipe to make it your own? I'll give a copy of the Gingerbread Danger audiobook to two lucky commenters (be sure to leave your email address).
Amanda Flower is a USA Today bestselling and three-time Agatha Award-winning author of over fifty mystery novels. Her novels have received starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Romantic Times, and she has been featured in USA Today, First for Women, and Woman’s World. Her first Emily Dickinson Mystery, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, was an Agatha Award winner and Mary Higgins Clark Nominee. Her first mystery featuring the Wright Brothers, To Slip the Bonds of Earth, was an Agatha Award and Ohio Book Award winner. A former librarian, Flower and her husband own a farm and recording studio, and they live in Northeast Ohio with their adorable cats.
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Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction. She lives with her beau and sweet cat Martin north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.
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