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.
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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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Whoops, also I left out the coffee.
I don’t have a food processor or special flours so I use white flour to make this (I wouldn’t even have that but a friend left some at my apartment once haha).Instant coffee is expensive so I don’t use tht either an sub peppermint extract. Nevertheless, these are great! I make small batches for myself using a food scale so I can eat it all at once 😀
Made these yesterday, and as it was only 20 degrees outside, I baked them. Soooo good. Try them baked. Right out of the oven. I literally hid them from my kids so they could be all mine.
Hi, I tried these cookie bites today and I think they came out so so good ….I did how ever sub a few things,omit an ingredient and added an ingredient as well lol … I used a 5 calorie stevia-sugar blend (8 tsp) as the sweetner and used apple sauce instead of oil. I also left out the coffee bc I was giving it to my young kids.. And I added 1/4 cup slice chopped almonds. I got 17 bite size balls … Yum yum yum! Thank you
I just want to say YOU ARE MY HERO! 😉 I love this recipe! I baked them at 350. They were great but would like to make them a little thicker maybe, they were a tad runny and thin when I made them. Would I add more oat flour do you think? or? And what are the benefits of using oat flour? Is it just that it’s gluten-free, are there other things about it?
Hi, Jamie, did you chill them long enough? I made them twice, and the first time I chilled them for the exact amount of time that the recipe said, and they came out perfect. The second time, I cut the chill time by a little, and then they ran a little too much during the baking. It definitely made a difference!
i missed the “chill” part, thanks for the tip!
I LOVE these! I made them today exactly as recipe is written, I am only sorry that I didn’t make them sooner! These will be my new go to snack when craving chocolate. Chocolate Covered Kate, thank you so much for introducing these to me!
These are sooo goood!!!! I’m pregnant and I crave sweets constantly. I will be living off these and many of your other desserts from now on. I love that I could eat them all up and have no guilt about it. lol
I made these twice and they’re amazing. The dough is delicious, but I prefer these baked for just a few minutes.
My roommate and I made these last night. The flavor was delicious but we couldn’t get a cookie-like consistency (too soft- probably our wacky weather). So we pressed them into a pan and coated them with a layer of melted chocolate chips to hold everything together. Tada- best mocha bars ever!!
I’m usually a very nervous substituter (is that a word?), to the point that if I don’t have the ingredients for a recipe, I just don’t make it. But I have a lot of oats to use up, I really wanted chocolate, and I had a chance to read through the comments while nursing my daughter to sleep. I used rolled oats and raw cacao powder, subbed hemp seeds for the oat flour (couldn’t risk waking the babies with the blender), date syrup for the sweetener, coffee in place of water and left out the instant coffee (didn’t have it), and applesauce for the oil (coconut oil is expensive!).
They turned out delicious! Thank you, Katie!