How to make healthy chocolate chip cookie dough bites. A chocolate-covered cookie dough made from healthy ingredients oatmeal and almonds butter and no cookie dough without chocolate chips.
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Healthy chocolate chip cookie dough bites are small, delicious treats made with healthier and more nutritious ingredients. They capture the flavor of traditional cookie dough but without less healthy elements like raw eggs. It's a delicious and guilt-free option that you can enjoy."
If you like to eat cookie dough, you will love this recipe, even more so because it's safe to eat and made with healthy ingredients, it's easy to store because it is egg-free.
Why you'll love this recipe
Ingredients you need
You need these ingredients to make the chocolate-covered cookie dough balls:
- Oatmeal: Rolled oats, you can substitute oatmeal with other cereal flakes of your choice.
- Almond meal: Almond flour or hazelnut meal or remove it from the recipe and simply add more oatmeal. You can replace it with heat-treated flour.
- Almond butter: serves as a binder in addition to bringing a delicious almond flavor to the truffles, you can replace it with homemade peanut butter or another homemade chocolate spread.
- Natural Sugar: Natural and liquid sugar like honey or maple syrup.
- Chocolate Chips: Use mini chocolate chips or make your own following this recipe for homemade chocolate chips.
- Vanilla and salt: Pure vanilla extract and sea salt or table salt.
How to make Chocolate Covered Chocolate chip Cookies dough bites
Here are some quick visual instructions. Don't forget that full recipe instructions with exact ingredients can be found in the recipe card below!
- Blend the oatmeal and almonds in a blender or food processor until finely ground and place in a large bowl.
- Add all the other ingredients, almond puree, honey, vanilla, salt and chocolate chips.
- Mix until you have a smooth, homogenous dough.
- Shape the dough into balls of about 20-25 g between the palms of your hands.
- Let the balls rest in the fridge for about 20 minutes.
- Melt the chopped chocolate in a double boiler or in the microwave and place in a small deep bowl.
- Dip the balls completely into the melted chocolate and place on a cooling rack or on parchment paper.
- Allow chocolate truffles to cool completely to room temperature.
Tips for this recipe
Storage instructions
Room temperature: They can be stored at room temperature or in the refrigerator for about 1 week, placed in a storage box with a tight-fitting lid.
How to freeze: You can also put them in the freezer and keep them for up to 3 months.
Variations & Substitutions
More truffle and Balls
I hope you love these healthy chocolate chip cookie dough bites. If you make it, be sure to leave a comment and a rating so I know how you liked it. Happy Baking!
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Chocolate chip cookies dough bites
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 15 truffles
Description
Recipe for chocolate truffles with oatmeal and almonds - For about 15 truffles)
Ingredients
- 120 g ( 1 ½ cups) Oatmeal - rolled oat
- 60 g (¼ cup) honey - or maple syrup
- 50 g (½ cup) Almond meal
- 100 g (½ cup) Almond butter - or peanut butter
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1 pinch Sea salt
- 50 g (⅓ cup) Chocolate chips - mini
- 100 g (⅔ cup) Baking chocolate - semi-sweet
Instructions
- Finely blend the oats with the almond powder in a blender or food processor until you have a fine powder.
- Place this powder mixture in a large container.
- Then add the remaining ingredients, almond puree, honey, vanilla and salt and blend until smooth.
- Form balls of about 20-25 g by rolling them between your hands and place them in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes.
- In a double boiler, melt the dark chocolate, then dip one ball at a time, place each ball on parchment paper or a cooling rack and let them cool completely at room temperature.
- Sprinkle with fleur de sel, or crushed hazelnuts.
Equipment
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- Substitute another liquid sugar for the honey
- Use peanut butter or another spread instead of almond puree
- For vegans, use maple syrup instead of honey
- Gluten-free, choose gluten-free cereal flakes
- Replace powdered almonds with hazelnut powder, or remove the and use more oat flakes.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: cakes, Dessert, snack
- Cuisine: american
Nutrition
- Calories: 97
- Sugar: 6
- Sodium: 2
- Fat: 7
- Saturated Fat: 1
- Carbohydrates: 8
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 2
Looks like a great recipe, but one suggestion. How about making these measurements in U.S. amounts? (lbs.,ozs.,tsps.etc.). Id be more inclned to make this recipe if it were.
Hello Annette, thank you for your message, I will update all my recipes including this one in US cups and amounts very quickly.