Make these healthy chocolate no bakes any time you want to satisfy your chocolate cookie cravings in a deliciously wholesome way!
Healthy chocolate no bakes
These nutrition packed no bake cookies will make you forget what time it is, what day it is, and basically everything else that was once important in your life.
While eating these cookies, you will think about one thing, and one thing only:
These cookies.
Also make my Healthy Oatmeal Cookies
Six ingredients
Super easy to make
Ultra fudgy and delicious
Loved by kids and adults
Healthy no bake cookies recipe video
What’s your favorite type of cookie?
My favorite is anything with chocolate or chocolate chips and no oven required.
I am one of those people who likes to eat the raw cookie dough (doesn’t everyone?) and impatiently watches the oven as cookies slowly bake.
In fact, I initially planned on baking these chocolate cookies… but the dough was entirely too good to wait that long!
Ingredients
The recipe calls for unsweetened cocoa powder, oats, peanut butter, pure maple syrup or honey, salt, coconut oil, and optional pure vanilla extract.
Add a handful of mini chocolate chips, chia seeds, or shredded coconut if desired.
You can use either rolled or quick oats. I love them both ways equally, and I’ve made these a lot! The version with rolled oats will have a chewier texture, so it just depends on your own personal preference.
Peanut butter may be swapped with almond butter, cashew butter, or sunflower butter.
How to make healthy chocolate no bake cookies
Gather your ingredients, along with a lined baking tray, large plate, or cookie sheet.
Warm the liquid ingredients until they are easily stir-able. You can even do this in a saucepan on the stove if you want to make the entire recipe in one pot.
Stir in remaining ingredients. Chill until firm enough to form into balls or cookie shapes with your hands or a cookie scoop, then place on the lined plate and chill to set.
You may also like this Healthy Chocolate Cake
The recipe was adapted from these Healthy Butterfingers.
Healthy Chocolate No Bakes
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder (20g)
- 2 cups quick oats (180g) (For keto, try these Fat Bombs)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup peanut butter or allergy friendly sub (120g)
- 1/2 cup pure maple syrup or honey
- 1/4 cup coconut oil (48g)
- optional 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- optional handful mini chocolate chips or shredded coconut
Instructions
- Warm the liquid ingredients until easily stir-able. (Feel free to do this in a pot on the stove if you want to make the entire recipe in one pot. Turn off the heat once liquid ingredients are softened.) Stir in remaining ingredients. Chill until firm enough to form into balls or cookie shapes with your hands or a cookie scoop, then place on a wax or parchment-lined plate and chill again to set. I like to refrigerate or freeze leftovers, but they can also be left out in a cool place.View Nutrition Facts
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I look forward to making these as well, wow. My husband would for sure love them as well. 🙂
Hey Katie! I just made these for some people at work. (We have rotations we switch up every 2 weeks in this training program and I always reward the people I work with by giving them cookies on the last day if they were pleasant to work with.) I just used regular oil because of the pricing on coconut oil and they came out too liquidy to be no-bake. I’m sure they’ll come out gloriously baked, but just a head’s up that some sort of nut butter might sub in for half the oil and make the texture more formed. 🙂 The batter was absolutely delish, though!
My favorite cookies are oatmeal chocolate chip.
These are awesomely addictive!! So rich and chocolatey. I used 1 tablespoon canola oil and 3 tablespoons applesauce. The dough was still pretty moist so I just added a little more oat flour and it came out perfect (I didn’t chill the dough). I got about 20 bite-size cookies from the recipe but then I ate about four while I was making them! I made them into little balls and then pressed a chocolate chip into the top of each one so they look like mini chocolate thumbprint cookies.
Thanks for another great recipe. Everyone in my family is a chocoholic so they all love you now. 😀
Hi Katie,
I just found your website and have just started using coconut oil. I made your lemon bars and they turned out fantastic. I would like to make these cookies as well but was wondering if you melted the coconut oil for this recipe or used it in its solid form.
You should melt it so that when mixed with the water and vanilla extract you have the liquid part that you can pour into the dry and combine. If you don’t melt it first it won’t get evenly distributed throughout the dry ingredients it will just be a big lump in your dry stuff.
I can seriously recommend you to make them having just whipped up an amazingly good batch in all of about 3.5 minutes!
I just made these cookies and they are absolutely delicious! The ratios are perfect love the slight saltiness and rich chocolate-mocha flavour. They literally took less than 5 mins to make too. I didn’t bake and used veg oil because I was out of coconut. Highly recommended.
I just made these in hopes that the kids will eat them. I don’t think they will (too much texture), but I WILL! They are awesome! I didn’t have “non-stinky” baking soda so i omitted it, and I left out the coffee -in the hopes the kids would eat them-, and I subbed Splenda for the sugar. I baked a few in hopes that the smell would entice them (it didn’t)- they came out great and I think I will bake the rest later.
Thanks for the recipe!
Excellent! Using dark chocolate chips, xylitol and coconut oil allow this recipe to conform to our Cancer Prevention diet! I will try these and may reblog! Cheers!
My co-worker, Kathryn, made this for me as a thank you…and they were DELISH! I shared them with my boyfriend who enjoyed them, but has trouble with the fact it was cookie that didn’t require any baking (men are so silly). Another YUMMMMMMY recipe!
I made them with almond flour to send to my sister in Afghanisgtan, but they didn’t last! So yummy! I thought I made them small, but only got about 15. I’m going to try them again with the almond flour and hemp seeds instead of oatmeal (grain free!).
These look amazing!! I can’t wait to try them!
Thanks to you, my favorite cookies are now your Peanut-Butter Cookie Dough Cookies! I love those things! Oh and raw cookie dough is ALWAYS wonderful!