Show of hands: who eats cookie dough regardless of if there are eggs in it?
*Slowly raises my hand too*
Whether your hand is up or down, these Vegan Cookie Dough Bites are meant to be eaten straight out of the bowl. Other than sneaking a sweet spoonful (or two) from the bowl as you’re making this insanely easy dough or grabbing one out of the fridge once the bites are rolled, you can:
- Break a few up to mix into vanilla ice cream
- Use it as a yogurt bowl topping
- Flatten a bite and add it to s’mores
- Make cookie dough stuffed brownie bites (spoon Healthy Fudgy Brownie batter into muffin tins until they’re half full, press a bite in, cover with brownie batter, and bake)
- Layer the dough in a cheesecake or ice cream sandwiches
- Crumble on top of a warm bowl of oatmeal
The ways that you can sink your teeth into this soft, smooth chocolate chip cookie dough are as vast as your creativity and imagination!
Vegan Cookie Dough Bites
Ingredients
- 160 g creamy cashew butter*
- 2 TBSP oil, melted: coconut, walnut, almond
- 2 tsp. maple syrup (Lakanto, monk fruit)
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 100 g flour: oat, spelt, GF, WW*
- ½ tsp. stevia
- ¼ tsp. sea salt
- 30 g mini vegan chocolate chips (Enjoy Life)
Instructions
- In a bowl, combine the wet ingredients – cashew butter, oil, syrup, and vanilla
- Add the remaining ingredients, except the chocolate chips, and mix until it’s smooth
- Fold the chocolate chips into the dough
- With a cookie scooper, measuring spoon, or by hand, form the dough into bite sized balls and place them on a lined cookie sheet or plate*
- Put the bites in the fridge or freezer (if you’re the kind of person who likes to put candy bars in the freezer, you might prefer the freezer for these too) to set, then store them in an airtight container in the fridge
Notes
- *Cashew butter: other nut butters can be used, feel free to experiment with different flavors! Aside from cashew butter, I’ve used and loved Hank’s Snickerdoodle Protein Peanut Butter and regular, creamy PB – the peanut butter came through strong which made the bites more like a PB chocolate chip cookie dough, so for a classic cookie dough flavor, a neutral nut butter such as cashew butter works best
- *Syrup: honey could be substituted for syrup as the two are often used interchangeably, but with honey, the bites would no longer be vegan and could have a thicker, stickier feel to them
- *Flour: most flours should work – although coconut flour absorbs moisture so if that’s used, use less than the recipe calls for otherwise the bites will be very dry and chalky – but be sure to measure the flour carefully as too much flour can make the dough dry and the bites crumbly
- *4. 1 TBSP, ½ TBSP, or 2 tsp. measuring spoons make for the perfect bite sizes pieces
Depending on the type of nut butter used, the cookie dough could end up being vegan-ish; which may not be a big deal to some, but it absolutely is for those practicing veganism. Most but not all nut butters are vegan. Especially common in peanut butter, some nut butters are sweetened with honey, which is obviously produced by bees. Other methods that can contaminate a seemingly plant-based nut butter include: supplementing with omega-3’s that are sourced from fish, containing refined cane sugar which may be processed with bone char, and being manufactured in a facility that also produces animal products. If maintaining the vegan aspect of this addicting dessert is important to you or someone you’re sharing with, double check the ingredients and nutrition label or play it safe and buy freshly ground nut butter!
Not only are these vegan and gluten-free friendly bites kin to their “unsafe to eat” counterparts, but they’re versatile too – check out the birthday cake version!
If interested, the macronutrients are below. They are kept separate at the very end of each recipe blog so that this can remain a safe, positive space for all as not everyone wishes to see the nutritional information.
Macros per bite (based on 30 bites, ½ TBSP size): 4.4 C | 2.8 F | 1.4 P
If you make different sized bites and want to know what the macros are, take the macros for the entire batch (below) and divide each number by the number of bites you make!
Whole batch: 133.3 C | 83.9 F | 42.2 P
The macros for recipes are also available on MyFitnessPal. Simply search the name of the recipe followed by “ – SUNutrition” (so for this recipe, search “Vegan Cookie Dough Bites – SUNutrition”).
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