After I came home from our Aruba trip, I had to make something with my Vita-Mix. I just had to turn on the beast.
It had been 3 whole weeks and my hearing had normalized so any sane woman would turn her Vita on at 2am after being awake for 24+ hours if she was apart from her beloved appliance for 3 weeks, right?
I looked around the kitchen and my vat of coconut flakes and coconut oil were calling out to be used.
If you like cookie dough, infused with the flavors of coconut, these are for you. The coconut flavor is present, but not overpowering, and I love the combo of coconut + cookie dough + chocolate.
And if you “don’t like coconut”, well, try it again. You’ll come around. I sure have over the years.
And if you still don’t like coconut there’s just more of these for the rest of us. Fine by me!
For the non-cocnut fans, you make these non-coconutty raw vegan chocolate chip cookie dough balls instead.
And for the coconut lovers, enjoy the recipe.
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No Bake Coconut & Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites
Ingredients:
2/3 c cashews (unsalted, and raw if possible)
1/4 c coconut flakes (unsweetened or sweetened)
2 tbsp oats (whole, rolled not quick cook)
3 tbsp agave or maple syrup (or combination)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp coconut oil (optional, and if using it and batter gets too wet after adding, add a pinch more dried coconut flakes, oats, or cashews and re-blend)
1/4 to 1/3 c chocolate chips or chunks
Yields: approximately 16-18 bites
Directions:
First add cashews, coconut flakes, and oats to Vita-Mix or food processor and grind into a fine powder. Then, add the agave, vanilla extract, and coconut oil, and blend again. Finally, the chocolate chips and either stir in by hand or barely blend/pulse until incorporated. Retain some texture to the chips or chunks.
Remove the dough and form into cookie bites. If dough is soft or hard to work with, refrigerate/freeze for 20 minutes prior to forming into bites.
Optional Ideas:
After the bites are formed, drizzle them with dark or white chocolate by melting 1/4 c dark/white chocolate. With a spoon, drizzle chocolate over the top of the bites (see here for an example) Or, dip each bite entirely into chocolate.
Add dried coconut flakes to each bite by rolling them in coconut flakes at the end.
Dust finished bites with cocoa or carob powder.
Store the dough bites in refrigerator or freezer.
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Pop a coconut cookie dough bite, or four, as a snack.
A snack that happens to be vegan, gluten free, soy free, dairy free, and that you can make in 5 minutes. I promise they don’t taste “healthy” or “healthified” even though that description made them sound like they may.
Or eat them as dessert.
At 4am after a long night out. Or for breakfast with coffee. Mmm, good.
Or really just any time the Cookie Dough Monster comes calling. Which, for me, is quite frequently.
I store all my bites and balls in the freezer so that I have a wide variety and assortment of different flavors on hand, at all times. Freezing has no effect on the taste, IMO. Major blessing. My grandma used to keep about 17 different types of cookies in her deep freeze in Folger’s Coffee cans and I suppose raw vegan cookie dough bites in the freezer is really just a new variation on her very old theme.
That way if I am feeling like No Bake Toffee & Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
or No Bake White Chocolate & Mango Cookie Dough
I can just pop of few of whatever flavors I want rather than having to make from scratch at a moment’s notice and you know how it is when you get that sudden craving!
Now I can add coconut flavored dough to my recipe arsenal. An to the freezer. That makes me happy.
I am also adding this recipe to my Coconut Recipes post so if need ideas for how to use Coconut Oil or Coconut Flakes, I’ve got plenty of suggestions with photos there.
As well as to my No Bake/Raw Dessert Balls & Bites compilation post with photos, too.
I’m glad you liked my last post, Powder, and the product reviews.
Questions:
1. Best thing you ate or did over the weekend?
Making, and eating, these coconut and chocolate chip cookie dough bites ranked right up there.
As well as enjoying the sunny, albeit cool-ish, weather.
After being in Aruba for 3 weeks, 70F and no humidity in San Diego feels cool. Spoiled, yes.
And I went and did something fun Saturday afternoon. More on that in my next post.
2. Do you like coconut flavored things?
I never used to like coconut but as time has gone on I like it more and more.
Now, I can’t really “taste” coconut oil in recipes the way I used to be able to about five years ago.
In fact, I have come to adore coconut oil in desserts. Or for roasting veggies.
But raw vegan coconut oil chocolate is a favorite of mine.
Chocolate recipes using coconut oil trumps using it for veggie-roasting in my book.
3. Favorite kind of cookies or cookie dough?
Fill me in and inspire me to create something else!
P.S. If you’re just catching up on posts from this weekend, here are mine since Friday:
Yup… coconut lover here! Can’t wait to try these!
Yum! Such a delicious treat, they look so good!
Your ball recipes always make me wanna head straight to the kitchen – so yummy looking! you’re a genius!!
Wow Averie! Perfect timing, I was just about to make some cookies for my snack this week. The ingredients are going in my proccesser as we speak! Love coconut almost as much as mint… :)
good, and hope you enjoyed!
Love the picture of the “No Bake White Chocolate and Mango Cookie Dough”!
best thing I ate over the weekend… hm, probably Chocolate-Cookie-Dough-Pancakes infused with peppermint oil :)
I do love coconut!
favorite cookie flavour… I do like ones that combine sweet and salty, and I do love chocolate chip cookies, and let´s not forget about oat cookies! well, why decide when you can make them ALL? ;)
Haha! I love that you said your hearing has normalized over the past 3 weeks that you haven’t been using the Vita! I use a regular blender and just recently started using my husband’s massive aviation ear protection when blending, lol!!!! I know I probaby look retarded but that’s fine, it doesn’t hurt my ears!
I love coconut but try not to eat it, which can get a bit difficult in Hawaii where I have access to fresh coconut at all times! Having just said that, yesterday I made your no-bake peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough balls with, umm, coconut flour. I might’ve even enjoyed one crumbled and mixed into my overnight oats this morning. I might be trying these balls too at some point. They look delicious!
glad you made and enjoyed :)
Am I crazy? Or do those chocolate chips look massive!! lol what a great recipe :)
Awesome job, these look fabulous! I’ve gotta try them. And the No Bake White Chocolate & Mango Cookie Dough look amazing too.
1. Went to an awesome food and garden fest.
2. Yes!
3. Dark chocolate and chocolate mint.
How about something with pineapple and cherries?
I am absolutely OBSESSED with all things coconut! I buy coconuts, hack them, drink the water, eat the meat, inhale coconut flakes, and slather coconut oil on everything (including my dog… it’s good for their fur) :-)
I too live in SD and this weather is making me feel giddy inside! Definitely not our typical “May grey, June gloom” weather… THANK GOD! Best thing I’ve eaten this weekend … will be today when I go get some vegan dumplings again in Kearny Mesa (seriously, Averie, go to the Dumplings Inn, it won’t let you down).
thanks for telling me you’re local! and about the Dumplings Inn…good info!
and yes i am sooo glad for no june gloom!
Averie, Made your oat cake…..so good! Thank you!
thanks for lmk :)
I am like Princess coconut! Those cookie dough balls are calling my name now I’m gonna have to make some :)
I like puttin shredded coconut or cocnut butter (or both!) in my oats and coconut milk ice cream is da bomb!
As for cookie dough, I never met a flavor of cookie dough I didn’t like!
it’s funny how addicted you get to the vita…i’m moving and have been separated from mine for a week and going into withdrawals…
I love so many little insights into you in this post! Love the sensitized ears+Vita+no sleep/2am! Totally relate to the ‘missing the Vita, got to do something with it.’ I adore your tip about having all kinds of flavors of balls and bites in the freezer, and love even more that your grandma did something like that.
And, of course, I love this recipe! I’m all about coconut and I think it goes so well with chocolate. Lately, I’ve cut my fat intake very low (just kind of happened and I’m feeling better for it) but coconut and occasional chocolate are the fats that I still feel good about.
Best thing I ate? Probably watermelon, my breakfast the past five days!
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Ela
Welcome Home and one word: YUMM! Huggies!
These pics are soooo fantastic! I LOVE that pretty green plate. Hope you submitted!!
Been a busy weekend, so nice to get back to normal, though, right? Vita at 2 am, that’s so me. If we were close to each other we’d go shopping at 3 am and make dough balls at 4!
I love the thought if subtle coconut with chocolate. Sounds so good! Yummmm
submitted yes and FG just took one! yay :)
“Vita at 2 am, that’s so me. If we were close to each other we’d go shopping at 3 am and make dough balls at 4! “-
yes and I was submitting to the foodie sites at 4am. Totally normal thing to do, right :)