Cookie Dough Balls - Chocolate Covered Katie (2024)

These no bake chocolate chip cookie dough balls are completely impossible to resist!

Homemade cookie dough balls

Whip up a batch of these secretly healthy cookie dough balls whenever you are craving soft, gooey, and delicious chocolate chip cookie dough.

The entire recipe takes just five minutes from start to finish, with no eggs and no flour required!

Seriously, what are you waiting for???

Also try these Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Healthy chocolate chip cookie dough balls

Cookie dough balls are the perfect portable healthy snack.

Grab a few on your way out the door for instant happiness on the go. Or pack them into a lunchbox. There is no wrong way to eat these babies!

They are great on car trips too.

And the chocolate chip snack balls can be flourless, dairy free, egg free, vegan, gluten free, sugar free, soy free, and high in protein.

The best part is how quick they are to make, with no need to ever turn on an oven.

Add them to Homemade Frozen Yogurt or Coconut Milk Ice Cream for an easy and eggless cookie dough ice cream.

Cookie dough ball ingredients

The recipe calls for just five ingredients: dark or semi sweet chocolate chips, sweetener of choice, a pinch of salt, nut butter of choice, and oat flour or protein powder.

The nut butter can be cashew, macadamia, peanut butter, or almond butter. For nut free cookie dough balls, try pumpkin seed butter or sunflower butter.

You can use any all purpose sweetener, such as regular or unrefined sugar, honey or pure maple syrup, or erythritol for sugar free cookie dough balls.

If using liquid sweetener instead of granulated, add more oat flour as needed to achieve a cookie dough texture.

Feel free to go with your favorite plain or flavored protein powder if you do not wish to use oat flour. Adjust the sweetener amount if using a sweetened protein powder.

Try standard or mini chocolate chips. Or have fun with other add ins like raisins, M&Ms, cacao nibs, white chocolate chips, or homemade Vegan Peanut Butter Chips.

How to make the cookie dough bites

Start by letting the nut butter come to room temperature. Or gently warm it up on the stove top or in the microwave if it is not already easily stirrable.

Stir everything together in a medium sized mixing bowl until the mixture turns into a soft chocolate chip cookie dough texture.

Break the dough into pieces, and roll the cookie dough pieces into balls with your hands or by using a mini cookie scoop.

Enjoy the no bake cookie dough bites now, or you can bake them in the oven.

For baked cookie dough balls, preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Place the dough balls on a greased or lined cookie sheet, and bake for eight minutes.

*If you prefer a recipe with a chickpea base, try these Cookie Dough Truffles.

Step by step video

Above, watch the cookie dough ball recipe video

Recipe storage tips

These chocolate chip snack balls go quickly!

However, if you do happen to find yourself with leftovers, store them in an airtight container on the counter for up to two days or in the refrigerator for up to three weeks.

Want instant cookie dough whenever a craving hits? Transfer the balls to a lidded container and place a sheet of parchment paper between each layer of cookie balls so they will not stick together.

Freeze the container for up to four months or so, and take a cookie dough ball straight from the freezer whenever you wish.

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