Birthday Cake Protein Balls
on Jan 25, 2024, Updated Apr 03, 2024
These Birthday Cake Protein Balls are made with cashew butter and rolled in sprinkles. An easy energy bite recipe that tastes like vanilla cake batter!
You’ll love these birthday cake protein balls!
Craving dessert but still need to get your protein in? These cake batter protein balls are made with easy ingredients and rolled in sprinkles for an irresistible snack that tastes incredible!
My original energy balls are one of my top recipes for a reason: they are absolutely delicious. Once I mastered how to make protein balls taste like dessert (some readers say they taste like cookie dough), the possibilities were endless.
Since then I have made many variations of protein balls, and these sprinkle covered cashew ones are my newest creation!
They are made with the classic protein ball ingredients: oats, protein powder, and nut butter, and rolled in sprinkles for a fun and colorful treat.
You can find the full recipe and instructions at the bottom of this post, but here are the ingredients that you will need to make these easy protein balls.
Protein Ball Ingredients
- Cashew Butter: Cashew butter is the secret for making these taste like cake batter
- Rolled Oats: Also known as old fashioned oats
- Salt: to taste
- Honey: the all natural sticky sweetener to hold the ingredients all together
- Protein Powder: vanilla flavored protein powder
- Sprinkles: we used dye free sprinkles
- Vanilla extract: don’t skip this! This really makes the cake flavor stand out!
How to make Birthday Cake Protein Balls
Step 1: Add the cashew butter, vanilla protein powder, rolled oats, vanilla extract, honey, salt, and sprinkles to a mixing bowl.
A note about the cashew butter: I used unsalted cashew butter for this recipe. If yours contains salt, omit the added salt in this recipe until after you mix it together. Then you can salt to taste, if needed.
Step 2: Use a rubber spatula to mix all of the ingredients together until it looks like cookie dough batter. There should be no streaks and the consistency will be slightly sticky.
Step 3: Use a mini cookie scoop to drop balls of batter onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet. You should get around 15 protein balls.
Step 4: Roll each ball with your hands, then dip the top into a small bowl of sprinkles. Place the ball onto the baking sheet sprinkle side up, then repeat until you are finished.
How to store protein balls
In the refrigerator: Store leftover birthday cake energy balls in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 1-2 weeks.
In the freezer: Store in an airtight bag or container for 2-3 months. The texture will be firmer when frozen, so make sure to allow the protein balls to thaw for several minutes for the best consistency before eating.
Protein Balls FAQs
You can, but I do not recommend it. Vanilla flavored protein powder will work best to achieve the cake flavor that we are going for.
If you use regular cashew butter, just leave out the additional salt. You can mix it all together and do a taste test to see if you need to add any more salt.
I have had luck finding sprinkles without artificial dye at Walmart, Kroger, and Amazon.
Birthday Cake Protein Balls
Ingredients
- 1 cup creamy no salt added cashew butter
- ½ cup vanilla protein powder
- ¾ cup rolled oats
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ¼ cup honey
- 3 tablespoons sprinkles, plus more for rolling
- ¾ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Mix all of the ingredients together in a mixing bowl using a rubber spatula
- Use a mini cookie scoop to drop balls of batter onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet. You should get around 15 protein balls.
- Roll each ball in your hands, then dip the top into a bowl of sprinkles and press down lightly
- Place the protein ball back onto the baking sheet, sprinkle side up. Repeat until you are finished dipping all of the protein balls
- Refrigerate the birthday cake energy balls until firm, then transfer to an airtight container. Store in the refrigerator or freezer
