These no-bake chocolate chip cookie dough bites taste like buttery chocolate chip cookie dough, but are made with nutritious ingredients! These little cookie dough balls are meant to be eaten unbaked. No worries about raw eggs here! You will never guess that these chocolate chip cookie dough balls are made with healthier ingredients! These are absolutely delicious on their own for a healthy snack, but my favorite way to eat them is crumbled over homemade vanilla ice cream. YUM! 🙂

These chocolate chip cookie dough bites are going to be your new favorite snack!!! They literally taste like eating straight up COOKIE DOUGH but aren’t made with your traditional cookie dough ingredients! These chocolate chip cookie dough bites are made with nutritious ingredients and a *secret* ingredient that makes them taste SO buttery…without using actual butter!!

They are naturally gluten-free, whole-grain, vegan, and no-bake…which means you don’t need to turn on your oven and you will be eating these in literally less than 10 minutes. So basically these are perfect to make whenever a chocolate chip cookie dough craving strikes! Like many of my recipes, I love making these on the weekend to have on hand for easy snacks during the week! ? I sincerely hope you give this recipe a try!! I’d love to hear what you think.

I thought it was about time for a classic CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH flavor for my no-bake energy bites! I love the other no-bake cookie flavors we have on the blog:

No-Bake Energy Bites:

Mocha No-Bake Cookie Energy Bites

Monster Cookie No-Bake Energy Bites

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Granola Bars (technically a bar recipe versus energy bite, but made with similar ingredients like oats, nut butter, and honey!

Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Dough Bites -I just recently made these again, and despite not having any chocolate I was reminded how much I love these!! Honestly I think I prefer them to baked oatmeal raisin cookies because I love the cookie dough texture!

What is your favorite flavor so far? My husband’s favorite is the oatmeal raisin cookie, while I am obsessed with the chocolate mocha no bake energy bites!

These chocolate chip no-bake cookie energy bites use very similar ingredients like my other energy bites! Here’s what you’ll need to make this chocolate chip version:

Ingredients and Substitution Ideas

Oats

Instead of using whole oats, I wanted a more traditional chocolate chip cookie dough flavor profile so I decided to grind up the oats into oat flour versus using the whole oats. You can easily make homemade oat flour by grinding oats in a food processor or high-speed blender, or buy store-bought oat flour in the baking aisle at your grocery store! Using oat flour versus whole oats gives these chocolate chip cookie dough bites a smoother cookie dough flavor, taste, and texture!

Cashew butter

I HIGHLY recommend using cashew butter in this recipe for the best cookie-dough taste. Peanut butter would completely change the profile (I’d recommend making these monster cookie energy bites or chocolate chip peanut butter granola bars instead!). Almond butter is another option that works well, although I preferred cashew butter for the cookie dough flavor.

Sweetener

This ingredient is probably the most flexible in this recipe! I initially tested these chocolate chip cookie dough bites using honey like in many of my other cookie dough bites. Honey works great. You can also sub pure maple syrup or agave. I prefer honey or agave for liquid sweeteners for the best cookie dough flavor.

However, after I tested this recipe many times and photographed it, I made this recipe using brown sugar on a whim one evening. And that worked surprisingly well AND possibly even better than using liquid sweetener. The brown sugar provided a more “gritty” texture (for lack of better word haha) than the liquid sweetener!

I honestly had such a difficult time deciding what version (honey versus brown sugar) I liked better, so I decided to just let you know that both options work, and you can decide for yourself which one to use! Or make a ½ batch of each and then you can do a little taste test yourself to see which version you like best. ? If using the brown sugar version, you will need to add about 1-2 tablespoons of water or milk to ensure the ingredients mix and stick together well since you’re not using a liquid sweetener.

Sea salt

Honestly, this may seem like an insignificant ingredient but it’s actually so important it gets an entire section devoted to it. Do NOT omit the salt!! It brings all the flavors together and brings out the sweetness in this cookie dough. The cookie dough is definitely lacking without it!

Butter extract

And now for the secret ingredient! This was a last minute addition (I was initially thinking of adding vanilla extract). But since this no-bake cookie dough uses healthy cashew butter (or almond) instead of butter like traditional chocolate chip cookies, this small amount of butter extract provides so much yummy flavor!!! I highly recommend buying it (just look right next to the vanilla extract in the baking aisle of your grocery store). You can of course substitute vanilla extract instead, but this cookie dough will definitely not taste the same if you omit the butter extract, so be warned! ?

Chocolate chips

Obviously needed for a chocolate chip cookie dough energy bite version! I highly recommend using mini chocolate chips, since you will get more chocolate chips in every bite this way and since we are rolling these into small bites/balls. They will also hold together better using mini chocolate chips!

Serving Suggestions

I loved eating these cookie dough bites crumbled up over homemade vanilla ice cream (link) for a cookie dough ice cream situation! It was SO yummy. They are also delicious on their own with a glass of milk! Store these bites in the fridge to keep fresh for up to two weeks, or in the freezer for up to a couple months.