These no-bake cookie dough babies can be raw, vegan, gluten-free, grain-free, and paleo – with just four ingredients!
NO eggs
NO flour
NO butter / NO sugar / NO oil
If your favorite part of making chocolate chip cookies has always been eating the raw cookie dough, these snackable cookie dough babies are the perfect healthy answer. Take them on-the-go for long car rides or running errands, pack them into a lunchbox, or keep a few on hand so you always have a healthy snack any time you’re craving something sweet.
You could also totally stir some of these into my Banana Ice Cream, for a homemade cookie dough nicecream sundae!
This is the cookie dough variation (one of my favorite flavors) of the fudge babies I made for the live USA TODAY segment on Wednesday. The broadcast went out to over 8 million viewers and was posted on all of their official facebook pages… both crazy exciting and completely terrifying at the same time.
So please just ignore my nervous hair flipping and not looking at the camera in the video if you watch. Definitely will fix those things for the future!
Here’s a link to the shortened version of the video, and if you’re a visual person and prefer to actually see recipes being made, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel while you’re over there, because it’s where I post all of my recipe videos.
Going back to these cookie dough balls – If you’ve ever tried a Cookie Dough Larabar, that’s what these little energy balls might make you think of when you try them. Just like Larabars, they need no refrigeration and are fine to store in a container for up to a few weeks. The cookie dough bites can also be frozen to always have on hand when a cookie dough craving hits.
To make them refined-sugar-free, you can use naturally sweetened or unsweetened chocolate or cacao nibs, or the chocolate chips can also be left out completely to give you something similar to a Cashew Cookie Larabar, only bite-sized. You could also change up the chocolate chips for raisins, add some shredded coconut or chia seeds, or dip them in melted chocolate – the best part about these fudge babies is how easy it is to customize them… and also how easy they are to eat!
Cookie Dough Fudge Babies
If you want a brownie version, also try the original Fudge Babies.
Cookie Dough Fudge Babies!
Ingredients
Instructions
*If your dates are rock hard, just soak them in boiling water for a half hour. Most regular grocery stores carry dates; be sure to buy them pitted.
Blend all ingredients in a food processor (or halve the recipe and use a single serve blender or mini chopper). You can add the chips before or after blending. I’ve found that a food processor works much better than a blender because it processes more evenly and the results are not a sticky mess. Roll into balls – I find it easiest to transfer the dough to a ziploc and smush into one big ball, then break off pieces and roll into smaller balls. Feel free to dip in melted chocolate. You can also form bars or even roll out the dough and cut shapes with cookie cutters.
More Cookie Dough Recipes:
Raw Cookie Dough – To Eat With A Spoon
I just made these and they are so yummy! Will definitely be making them again! 🙂
Where do u buy your nuts? At my grocery store it is $10 per pound for cashews!!
Look in the bulk section for cheapest nuts.
hi katie.
i just made these, and my Magic Bullet hated them, so i had to add about a sixth of a cup of water in there, so it turned to like chunky cookie dough pudding, so it is in the freezer right now. very yummy, very sweet. i used almonds.
After walking past the dates in my grocery aisle countless times, I finally decided to pick up and box and try making these despite not having tried a lara bar before. Needless to say, these are AMAZING!!! I added a small spoon of cacao nibs instead of chocolate chips because I thought the dates made it sweet enough already. I also included some puffed kamut to add some volume 🙂 Thanks Katie!
I made these a few days ago, and they were a hit with my family! I did make some adjustments:
-My food processor chops pretty poorly, so I had to add a little flax milk and honey to the dates in order to adhere the bits together
-I added cocoa powder because more chocolate never hurt anyone
-Since the flax milk made the rounds a bit wet for my liking, I baked them for 10 minutes at 350 degrees F and then stuck them in the fridge overnight. (I know, that’s not raw, but it gave them EXACTLY the same texture as real cookie dough)
Thank you so much for your recipes! I feel great because I can eat delicious food while still being healthy about it 🙂
I made this once before and they were pretty good. I decided I would try them again because I am traveling the next couple of days and enjoy having healthy snacks, and let me just say how even more amazing they were. This time I was able to fix the mistakes I made the first time and bars (I made them into “lara bars”) are fabulous. They hold together better and I added a little more vanilla because I love the flavor. I used a magic bullet and would highly suggest to blend the ingredients in sections and combine them after. Thank you Katie !! <3
Hey there… so, couple quick questions, to clarify!!
To make the sugar free raw chips, you pour mixture into a bar mold and freeze and then shatter, or crumble to make chips?
And when you write cocoa powder did you mean regular cocoa, or could raw cacao powder be used, and if so, same ratios/amount??
Anyways, putting these on the Christmas cookie list this year!! THANKS!!
Yes and yes. Same amount.
I am so happy I found you on Pinterest!
I love all your recipes, and make them all the time!!
Just wanted to say how much I love making and eating it all!! 🙂
Jessica lloyd
What is the nurtition info for these? The link takes me to a laurabar page, but no nutrition info for the cookie bites.
Thank you,
Sarah
*nutrition info
Can you use medjool dates?