Welcome to the very first… Nutella Week!
A week where every single new recipe published on this website will revolve around Nutella. (I’m using the term Nutella as a proprietary eponym; you can make any of this week’s recipes with Justin’s Chocolate Hazelnut Butter, Rawmio, or your favorite chocolate spread. I like to use my recipe for Homemade Nutella.)
Technically, if you have a nut allergy, all of the recipes posted during Nutella Week will work with Sunbutter. They’ll just have a different flavor.
Today’s recipe–in classic Chocolate-Covered-Katie fashion—can be made with just 4 ingredients, and no baking is required. The balls are healthy and portable; perfect for road trips, lunch boxes, or afternoon snacking.
Nutella Cookie Dough Balls
- 1/4 cup rolled oats, gluten-free if desired (28g)
- 1/4 cup chocolate hazelnut spread or Homemade Healthy Nutella
- 1 tbsp oat bran, gluten-free if desired (8g)
- pinch stevia, OR 2 tsp pure maple syrup
- handful mini chocolate chips or chia seeds, optional
Stir all dry ingredients together in a cereal bowl. Add remaining ingredients and stir, then slowly add up to 1 tbsp water or coconut oil until a thick dough forms. Break off pieces of dough and roll into balls. Store leftovers in the fridge or freezer for freshness. Makes a small batch (10 if made the size of the ones in the photos), so feel free to double the recipe if desired.
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Question of the Day: Do you have a favorite portable snack?
Some of mine include fudge babies, peanut butter cookie dough cookies, or chocolate Jocalat bars. If you’re in need of some no-bake and portable snack ideas, feel free to check out the following post:
Healthy Snack Recipes – over 50 healthy and portable recipes you can take on the go!
Hi, I have celiac disease, and my grocery store is out of gluten free oat bran. What would be a good substitute?
Hi, I’m celiac, too, and as we don’t have gf oat bran here, I always use rice bran.
You could probably use a gluten free flour too; I think the oat bran is just there as a thickener
I was just thinking that I need to make some “cookie dough” balls. These sound tasty.
Nutella, my childhood favorite. This is my kind of snack!
nutella week is my favourite kind of week! love these little cookie dough balls, definitely perfect for when my afternoon sugar cravings hit. yum!
I LOVE that you’re doing Nutella Week! I’m looking forward to see (and then trying!) all the recipes you come up with 🙂
These look sooo pretty! I have made something similar before and hiiighly approve, yum 🙂 x
Awesome! I love Nutella; especially your homemade version. A friend and I have a weekly ritual of making your Nutella, and it always disappears very quickly. Hope your broken bone gets better soon (:
Instead of oat bran (I have none in the house) do you think the same amount of flax meal would do the trick?
I’ve vacationing in Italy this summer and I’m desperately missing my homemade raw bars!! I can’t find almond butter anywhere! Thanks for the reminder…there’s no shortage of Nutella here. Looks like I found the perfect substitute! 😉
These are my fave on-the-go snacks:
http://www.bitesforbabies.com/recipes/cherry-pie-energy-bars-2/
http://www.bitesforbabies.com/recipes/raw-hazelnut-chocolate-goji-berry-cookies/
Oh, yeah nutella week 🙂 My newest favourite baby is almond nutella, i.e. almond butter with some brown rice syrup and cocoa powder.
My favourite portable snack are tahini balls. Tahini, honey, chia seeds, ground almonds.