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.
Click for: Nutella Cookie Dough Balls Calories & Nutrition Facts
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!
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.
These. are. amazing. running to the store to get ingredients now! I’ve been following your blog for 3 years now Katie! It’s the best thing ever!
Do you have a substitute to recommend for the oat bran? I don’t have any but would love to make these. It’s going to be hotter than h-e-double hockey-sticks out here in the pacific northwest and don’t want to use the oven for treats for the kids (both small and adult). I think i have some ground flax; would that work? other than that no “bran” things to speak of in the house at this time.
I’ve not tried anything else. You can always experiment! 🙂
I would LOVE to make these! Unfortunately I don’t even tolerate gluten-free rolled oats. Would using Quinoa flakes (by Ancient Harvest) work? Could I substitute flax meal for the oat bran?
Thank you SOOOOO much for the Nutella homemade recipe! My milk allergy has banned the “real thing” from my diet years ago–so this is a real GEM!
You can always experiment!
Fave portable snacks… raisins, larabars, dried cherries… I have a lot! I actually have a video on my YouTube channel about my favorite convenient healthy store-bought snacks. Here’s the link if anyone’s interested! http://youtu.be/NqUOXdwSAYM
This recipe looks so good, Katie, I think I’ll try it with Wild Friends Chocolate Almond and Sunflower Seed Butter. YUM!
http://www.youtube.com/sparklesandsuch26
This looks sincerely incredible! My kind of recipe…. I want it now! I don’t think I have a favorite portable snack, honestly, but if I did it would probably be Earth Balance Vegan Buttery Popcorn… it’s so good! Either that or Bai5 juice. Or Larabars and Svelte Protein Shakes. I really like vegan products hahaha!! (:
Hey Katie,
How often do you eat sweets and treats? 🙂
Usually some chocolate at breakfast, and an afternoon snack and a dessert a few hours after dinner 🙂
These look seriously yummy – oh boy how am I going to stop myself from eating tons of them?! Thank you for the recipe.
OMG Nutella week. Best idea ever…I love Nutella!
Genius Katie does it again! I made these this evening with Justin’s chocolate almond butter, didn’t have oat bran so used crushed up Life cereal and agave as the sweetener. Heavenly! Thank you for another healthier way to get my chocolate fix!
Thank you so much for making them!
These are fab! They weren’t looking particularly chocolatey and were still quite loose so I mixed a bit more Nutella with a splash of warm water and added that it and it was perfect!
These look so good! I will have to try these!!!
Christian | http://www.mysimplemodestchic.com
I will try this out using the maple syrup (not a fan of stevia). This looks so yummy. Looking forward to all the nutella recipes I get to try out because of you 🙂
Bright and Shiny