Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls

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These robust, hearty Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls are quick and easy to make.  Made with ground oats, peanut butter, maple syrup and mini chocolate chips, these couldn’t be tastier and are definitely irresistible to the tastebuds! Vegan & Gluten Free options! 

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls - GF option

These balls of cookie dough love will be a winner recipe for the whole family. We just scoop the dough up into balls using a small cookie scoop to get a very sizable snack that is filling, delicious and easy to whip up in just minutes.  No-bake treats are the best!  

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls - GF option

Healthy snacking is always welcome around our house and these healthy cookie dough balls includes ingredients that you already have in your pantry.

For these snacking treats, all you need is oats, peanut butter or any natural nut butter, maple syrup or honey, butter or coconut oil and chocolate chips.  Add some vanilla for an extra boost. As you can see, many of the ingredients are inter-changeable as needed with ingredients you have on hand.  

About Oat Flour

Oat flour is one of my favorite ingredients to use!  You can also buy it gluten-free, especially if you have allergies.  And if that is the case, switch out the peanut butter for Sunbutter

For the oats, I used Thrive Organic Gluten-Free Rolled Oats.  They are chewy, filling, and hearty and are safe for those with allergies or sensitivities to gluten. They’re also free of preservatives and artificial ingredients.  But you can also use any type of oats in these.  Oats also give a subtle hint of nuttiness when used in recipes.

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls - GF option

How to Make Oat Flour

Just add oats to a food processor and blend until coarse.  Then, keep pulsing until the oats become a fine flour, with little to no flakes of oats remaining, depending on texture you wish for your recipes.  

Use as needed in oat flour recipes and measure but it’s nice to know when grinding oats, there is an almost 1:1 ratio for rolled oats to ground oats, (example, if the recipe calls for a 1/2 cup oat flour, simply measure just over a 1/2 cup of rolled oats).  

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls - GF option

Ingredients You Need

  • oat flour
  • peanut butter or nut butter of choice
  • maple syrup agave or honey, add more if want sweeter
  • butter or coconut oil melted
  • vanilla extract
  • pinch of salt, if no salt in nut butter
  • mini semi-sweet chocolate chips

How to Make Healthy Cookie Dough Balls

  1. Mix together all ingredients in a bowl until well combined and consistency reached.
  2. Scoop into balls using small cookie scoop or roll into balls and store in fridge or freezer.

Tips

  • Refrigerate cookie dough balls and pop them in your mouth when you want a quick treat!
  • Freeze cookie dough balls for up to 3 months.  Defrost for a few minutes before eating.  
  • For vegan option, use maple syrup or agave, vegan butter if using butter and non-dairy chocolate chips.

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls - GF option

Whether you strive to maintain a healthy lifestyle or just need some balance every now and then, these Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls are healthy delicious, nutritious and good fat/calories for the body.  Eat them for breakfast, snacking or even as dessert after your meals.  So yummy!

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Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls - GF option

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls – GF option

Kim Lange
These robust, hearty Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls are quick and easy to make.  Made with ground oats, peanut butter, maple syrup and mini chocolate chips, these couldn’t be tastier and are definitely irresistible to the tastebuds!
5 from 2 votes
Prep Time 5 minutes
Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 14 Servings
Calories

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup oat flour more if needed for consistency and depending on oats used.
  • ½ cup + 2 tablespoons peanut butter or nut butter of choice
  • 2 tablespoons maple syrup agave or honey, add more if want sweeter
  • 1 tablespoon butter or coconut oil melted
  • Optional: 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • Optional: Pinch of salt if no salt in nut butter)
  • ½ cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions
 

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Mix together all ingredients in a bowl until well combined and consistency reached.
  • Scoop into balls using small cookie scoop or roll into balls and store in fridge or freezer.

Notes

  • If you don’t have oat flour, you can easily make your own.
    Add oats to a food processor or blender and blend until coarse. Keep pulsing until the oats become a fine flour, with little to no flakes of oats remaining, depending on texture you wish for your recipes.
  • Use as needed in oat flour recipes and measure but it’s nice to know when grinding oats, there is an almost 1:1 ratio for rolled oats to ground oats , (if the recipe called for a 1/2 oat flour, simply measure just over a 1/2 cup of rolled oats). Oats also give a subtle hint of nuttiness when used in recipes.
  • Defrost for a few minutes before eating if freezing.
  • For vegan option, use maple syrup or agave,  vegan butter if using butter and non-dairy chocolate chips
Keyword chocolate chip, cookie dough, healthy, healthy snack, raw cookie dough
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