Growing up I loved Heath bars.
In candy bar form
In Blizzard form
One summer I think I slurped down my weight in Heath Bar Blizzards, horrible dairy intolerance reactions and all. It was worth it.
But since I don’t plan to raid Dairy Queen for a Heath Bar Blizzard anytime soon, and because I love cookie dough, I came up with today’s recipe which satisfied my toffee cravings. I think it will do the same for you. C’mon, cookie dough, chocolate and toffee. What’s not to love?
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No Bake Toffee & Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites
Ingredients:
2/3 c cashews (unsalted, and raw if possible)
1/3 c dry oats
3 tbsp agave or maple syrup (or combination)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 c chocolate chips
1/4 c toffee bits
Yields: approximately 16-18 bites
Directions:
First add cashews and oats to Vita-Mix or food processor and grind into a fine powder. Then, add the agave and vanilla extract and blend again. Finally, add the chocolate chips and toffee bits and either stir in by hand or barely blend/pulse until incorporated. Retain some texture.
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.
Dust finished bites with cocoa or carob powder.
Add dried coconut flakes to each ball by rolling them in coconut at the end, or adding 1/4 c dried coconut to the dough. Increase agave/maple slightly if dough is too dry.
Store the dough bites in refrigerator or freezer.
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Pictures of the Process:
Cashews + Oats. Grind into powder
Add agave/maple and vanilla extract to the cashew/oat powder and blend again.
Dough. You will know when your dough is the right consistency because it just looks like it’s going to stick together without being too wet or too crumbly.
Add Chocolate Chips + Toffee Bits and do a light and quick blend or hand stir. Don’t pulverize the goodies.
Dough is ready
Form into bites
And Enjoy!
The little crunchy toffee bits combined with the dark chocolate chips are perfect in the chewy, raw, doughy bites.
When is cookie dough ever a bad thing?
Never.
Don’t forget to check out my previous Cookie Dough recipe for No-Bake White Chocolate & Mango Cookie Dough Bites
And there’s also my Dessert Balls & Bites Post Showing about 20 of my Balls & Bites Recipes from Raw Vegan Donut Holes to Chocolate Covered Oreo Balls.
Including my original Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough from over 18 months ago, which is where today’s recipe was derived from.
From my last post about Sandwiches & ‘Shrooms, as predicted mushrooms are a love ’em or hate ’em food. But I was surprised to hear how many of you really love your shrooms!
And glad you liked my creative twist on “bread” sandwiches. Gotta think outside of the gluten box.
Questions:
1. Best thing you ate or did over the weekend?
These Toffee Cookie Dough Bites rank right up there but I got together with a friend and it was great. Stay tuned.
2. Do you like Heath Bars or Toffee?
Yes, clearly!
3. Favorite mainstream candy bar?
If you rattle off some favorites, I can put them into dessert recipes. Not necessarily just into raw dough bites, but into other cooked recipes like brownies or cookies, too. I am thinking Butterfingers, Snickers, Mounds Bars, Laffy Taffy even. What should I try next?
P.S. If you’re just catching up on posts since Friday, here are mine:
YUM! Toffee dough balls sound soooo good! I love toffee, well, any candy really, LOL.
I also don’t think I can pick a favorite mainstream candy bar; I like soooo many! Kit-Kat’s, Whatchamacallit’s, (sp?), Hershey’s bars with almonds, Nestle Crunch, Take Five… so, so, so many. :lol:
Oh boy–blizzards are AMAZING!! Yum.
Wow…YUMMY!!!
Now… i will take this one step further and add it to low fat frozen yogurt! (or soy icecream)
Thanks for sharing!
http://www.flawlessfoodie.blogspot.com
POP ROCKS!!!! How fun would that be? :)
AWESOME new recipe, averie!
and thanks for the detailed photo tutorial…fyi, never think that the info you provide is “too basic” – as a novice in the kitchen, i appreciate seeing what the “dough” should look like at various stages of the prep process, for example. and, of course, your photography is great quality!
fave choco bar ever? crispy crunch. i think it was the first choco bar i ever had in my life (didn’t get a lot of them as a child, but it’s an early memory) and still can’t be beat!
if i dont post it, then someone writes to me with 17 questions so it cuts down on how many email replies i have to do too :)
Toffee is one of my all time favorite things. I love the buttery salty sweetness. I’m going to have to get in my kitchen and make a batch of these…..YUMMMM!!!!
We don’t have Heath bars in Canada, but I have tried one before while in the US. We have Skor, which I think is similar.
skor and heath bar are very similar, yes.
Oh, I’m so envious! These look amazing but I’ve never seen toffee chips in Australia :(
Oh my gosh, these look GREAT! Definitely foresee making these in the near future :). Also love the ribbon plate!!
Dang. I loved heath bars too. I could never decide between peanut butter cup, oreo, and heath blizzards. My favortire christmas candy was always the toffee too.
I bet you could just smooth thes and make them into bite-size bars if you are lazy like me and don’t want to make them into balls. Not the prettiest presentation that way though.
Best thing I did over the weekend: I slept in on Saturday. It was because I didn’t feel well, but…I SLEPT IN! :-)
I love toffee!
Favorite mainstream candy bar would have to be a Kit Kat or a Snickers. Oh yummers! :-)
This is fantastic. I love making these. Thank you for delectable recipe. This would be a delicious and healthy treat for me and my nephew. He’s 2 years old now. Thank you Averie…:) You look great in the photo as well…:)
Those cookie dough balls sound delicious! I’d mix them with ice cream to make my own blizzard ;).
Mmmm, Averie! Those toffee bites look good!
Your blog is the second one I’ve read recently that’s mentioned… DQ Blizzards (Oh She Glows is the other). Angela made a healthy Blizzard (banana soft serve + cookie bites). Have you thought about trying that with all the de-lis-cious cookie bites and treats that you post? :-)
xo
I know I saw her blizzard. When the weather warms up, yes indeed!