Pecan Pie Cookie Dough Balls


Side note:

Yes, I’ve gone back to the old blog header.

This change isn’t permanent. Currently I’m working with a web designer the most patient person in the world to completely overhaul the site’s layout, making it much more user-friendly (including a print option for the recipes). Hopefully it will all be completed soon. New year, new blog?

Now back to your regularly-scheduled cookies…

pecan pie energy bites

Pecan pie cookies you can make in minutes.

Delicious and good for you at the same time. If you’ve ever had a pecan pie Larabar, that’s exactly what these pecan pie energy bites taste like.

raw pecan pie bites!

(No bake) Pecan Pie Cookie Dough Balls you can make in minutes. https://lett-trim.today/2012/12/16/pecan-pie-cookie-dough-balls/

 

Pecan Pie Babies

(raw and gluten-free)

  • 1/2 cup raw pecans (For all substitutions on this recipe, see nutrition link below) (52g)
  • packed 1 cup pitted dates (I use Sunmaid, found in regular grocery stores near the raisins, as they are softer and stickier than the ones found in natural food stores.) (160g)
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • optional: chocolate chips (or mini chips, or a piece of your favorite chocolate bar)

Combine all ingredients in a food processor until it makes a crumbly dough. (You can add the optional chocolate chips either before or after blending.) Pour crumbles into a bag and smush into one big ball. Remove from bag and form little balls. Or you can make bars or cookie-cuttered shapes if you prefer. This can also be made in a Magic Bullet: halve the recipe for best blending in a bullet.

View Nutrition Facts

 

pecan pie energy bites

Question of the Day:

Christmas is coming up too quickly, and I have quite a few cookie recipes left to post, meaning some of them will have to wait until next year.

If you have a preference, please let me know which ones you’d most like to see:

  • Flourless Sugar Cookie Cut-Outs
  • Mint-Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Chocolate Quinoa Cookies
  • Cookies in a Jar
  • Cake Batter Macaroons

Link of the Day:

reeses peanut butter cups-- healthy makeover!
….Chocolate Monkey Bites

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233 Comments

  1. Anonymous says:

    mint chocolate chip all the way!

  2. Olivia @ OmNom Love says:

    Please, please, please do flourless sugar cookies! You would be my favorite person ever if you did! (Not that you already aren’t 😉 ) The mint chocolate cookies sound delicious too. As do the pecan pie babies. Pecan pie is one of my favorite Larabar flavors! I need to get in my kitchen sometime soon to do some cookie baking. Hopefully I’ll be able to this week.

  3. carolyn says:

    Cake batter macaroons or flourless sugar cookie cutouts

  4. Stefanie @ Thin Vegetarian says:

    The chocolate quinoa cookies sound very interesting.

  5. Dharshi says:

    I really can’t wait to try the mint-choc chip cookies and cake batter macaroons 🙂 I am also going to make either the peanut butter sandwich bread or banana bread soon and can’t wait! All of your recipes look amaaazing Katie! 🙂

  6. Christina says:

    Flourless sugar cookies!!! And chocolate quinoa cookies if you have time 🙂

  7. Abby says:

    The cookies I would love to see the recipe for are:
    Mint-Chocolate Chip Cookies ( I’m obsesed with Mint)
    Cake Batter Macaroons ( I’m also obsessed with cake batter AND macaroons;)

  8. Sunnie says:

    In order of preference:

    1. Chocolate Quinoa Cookies
    2. Flourless Sugar Cookie Cut-Outs
    3. Mint-Chocolate Chip Cookies
    4. Cake Batter Macaroons
    5. Cookies in a Jar

    They all sound super yummy! 😀

  9. Irene says:

    These sound so good. I’d love to see a recipe for mint chocolate chip cookies. I just bought some mint chocolate chips to make something with mint in the spirit of Christmas so that would be great.

  10. Jackie says:

    My top 3 choices in order:
    1. Chocolate Quinoa Cookies
    2.Flourless Sugar Cookie Cut-Outs (must have icing recipe too 🙂 ! )
    3. Cookies in a Jar

    Thanks for all you do!

  11. Olivia says:

    All of them! But if I had to choose one I would pick the chocolate quinoa cookies!

  12. Linde says:

    Chocolate Quinoa Cookies sound sooo good! Cookies in a Jar as well though, how can I choose between all these amazing ideas?!

  13. OliveraMaria@Instagram says:

    Cookies in a jar! 😀

  14. Sophie D says:

    Oooh cookies in a jar sounds interesting 🙂

  15. m says:

    chocolate quinoa cookies sound really interesting!!

  16. Gi says:

    I’d love to see the quinoa ones, or the “biscuits in a jar”!
    Or I’ll wait till next year…