Feast your eyes on these.
Why did I create today’s recipe? Well….
….There is something about mango that I love.
…And there is something about cookie dough that I love.
…And there is something about white chocolate that I love.
So when I was brainstorming about what I’d like to create, I decided to combine those flavors. I think you’ll love the result.
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No-Bake White Chocolate & Mango Cookie Dough Bites (Gluten-Free, Soy-Free, Seed-Free, Vegetarian)
For the Cookie Dough:
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 dried and diced mango
1/4 c white chocolate chips/chunks + 1/4 c white chocolate chips/chunks for melting and drizzling on top
Yields: approximately 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 mango and white chocolate chunks 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.
After the bites are formed, drizzle them with white chocolate by melting 1/4 c white chocolate. With a spoon, drizzle white chocolate over the top of the bites. Optionally, dip each bite entirely into white chocolate.
Optional: 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 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.
Chop and add mango + white chocolate
A light and quick blend or hand stir. Don’t pulverize the goodies.
Dough is ready
Form into bites
But I thought they were looking a little….
….Naked.
So I frosted them with 1/4 c of melted white chocolate.
Much.Better.
I thought they looked pretty sitting in the sun.
So I took a hundred pictures of them. Not kidding.
This picture shows light coming in from the right hand side, the shadows are on the left. Hello, Daylight Savings Time.
But I realize this is a food blog, not a photography blog.
So how did they taste you’re wondering?
They are perfect.
The cookie dough is spot on in terms of texture and flavor (you won’t miss the eggs, flour, or butter) and the mango adds a hint of sweetness. But mango can also be a bit tart.
The white chocolate in the dough adds a bit more sweetness and balances the tartness of the mango.
And the white chocolate drizzles droplets on top complete them. You can never have too much chocolate. White, dark, or otherwise.
Chomp.
Leftovers won’t be a problem.
The dough I used for the White Chocolate Mango Bites is very similar to my Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough balls, which are closing in on an 18 month old (and one of my most popular!) recipes to date.
And I have other recipes with White Chocolate such as…
White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups with Chocolate Peanut Butter Centers
Or all white chocolate outside
…Or
Peanut Butter Cup Brownie Cupcakes with White Chocolate Frosting drizzle
From my last post about the Time Change and Daylight Savings time, sounds like most of you like the lighter evenings but did miss your hour of sleep and productivity over the weekend.
Thanks also for the tripod tips. I am really trying to improve my photography. As I mentioned in the last post, it’s my photography that has really become a new hobby and dare I say a new passion lately, and so I am willing to invest in a tripod and photography gear as needed. It’s interesting because when I started my blog, it was about sharing recipes. And now, I do love to come up with and share recipes, but I also want to photograph the food as beautifully as possible, too.
Questions:
1. Do you like mango?
Yes!
2. Do you like white chocolate?
Yes and I think white chocolate compliments other flavors, such as fruits, in a way that dark or milk chocolate doesn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I will always love dark chocolate (and milk chocolate has never been high on my hit list no matter what) but something about white can be nice in the right recipe.
3. What should I include in my next cookie bite recipe?
Hit me with your ingredient lists and I will try to work them in!
P.S. If you’re just catching up on posts from the weekend, here are my posts since Friday:
- Time Change & Tripod Tips
- Brazilian Blowout
- Stinky or Not
- Boots
- Balancing It All & Feeling Balanced
- Candy Friday
How was your weekend?
i feel like white chocolate is SUCH an underrated ingredient. the combo of mango and white chocolate is so genius on your part! i bet it’s like a sweety nutty combo :) in my life i need to get a vitamix and not be in school so i can make delicious treats like this and not have my blender smell like burnt rubber haha
my roommate is IN LOVE with white chocolate! I’m dreaming up a recipe for blondies with white chocolate chips
white choc blondies..oh THAT sounds wonderful!
Fancy lookin dough treats :) Love your creativity! The mango makes them look nice and “spring” like!
Love the vita step by step. Sounds like a yummy combo. Did you see my white chocolate (no sugar, no dairy) recipe I put up a couple days ago? I’m with you, I adore dark choc, but my adrenals take a pounding from it, so it was nice to make an alternative.
So much daylight here! I don’t like daylight savings because I think it’s ‘artificial’ (may have bored you with that before!) and also I’m a morning person and don’t care how late it’s dark in the evening, but I heard that they actually instituted it because it saves power use overall.
Awesome photography–even a rube like me can see it!
love
Ela
So many recipes in the sphere, so little time to catch all the posts! Sorry I missed that one :)
Aimee told me in the comments here about your white choc, and I also know one can order vegan white choc online, too. But making it at home sounds perfect.
Oh, why didn’t I think of adding white chocolate to my mango sunflower bites? You’re a clever one! :P
right AFTER i got done taking 258 photos of this recipe, I went to Angela’s site, and saw your balls.
Since I used my orig cookie dough recipe that’s 18 mos old as the “base”, and simply added white choc rather than dark choc chips, and added some mango, I was relieved when our recipes were different :)
Teehee! I was originally going to write “great minds think alike” when I saw this post but then I decided that your great mind thought better than mine… cookie dough is just the best :)
Oh my goodness, these look so freaking good!!
Your presentation is so beautiful!! I want to reach into my computer screen and pull out a cookie dough bite. I LOVE both white chocolate and mango.
I think your next bites should have a coffee flavour!
thank you jolene!!
You totally need to start a raw cookie dough ball business – I swear you would make millions!
you can be my first customer when i get it open :)
Love mango! (not so much white chocolate but I bet dark choc. would be good too!) Have you ever had salted mango?? If you haven’t, before you say “ewww”..you should try it! There’s something about the salt that changes the mango’s taste, and almost the consistency too, definitely does not taste like salty fruit, which I agree, sounds sick!
my grandma used to salt her watermelon, nothing shocks me with food :)
Your pictures look outstanding!!!! You should be very proud. I know it probably gets old hearing me say this, but I so appreciate it when people truly want to learn about photography and how to use their cameras to the best of their ability, and I can tell you do :) Excited to see what gear you get!!
And the bites? You are a Jill of All Trades, Master of everything ;) They look amazing, too!!
I would be SO interested in a salty-sweet cookie dough ball!! I love the combo of apricots and pretzels, because of the salty and sweet. That’d be amazing in a cookie dough ball, methinks :) Of courseee, maybe I’m just weird…
thank you so much Jess. I truly want to get better at photography and I am loving it…and so it’s fun “work” and your photos are awesome and i truly appreciate your compliments :)
Wow, Averie, you’re really vamping up your photography!
thanks, Evan, I am reallllly trying to improve :)
Mango sounds so refreshing right now – I can’t wait until spring and summer!
Must…eat…those! Grrr, no mango on hand…I just might try them with dried apricots, although I know it’s not the same.
dried apricots would be just as perfect. try it!
Yum yum, those were GREAT!
these look fantastic! what is that you use as white chocolate?? looks delish… is it nondairy?
it’s white baking chocolate or you can use white chocolate chips. I showed the photos of what i use in the post.
And it does contain dairy.
There is vegan white choc online if you google it if you need it, you can order it.
I go to town on dried mango when I buy it. Its kind of a dangerous thing for me to get. Mango and white chocolate is a brilliant flavor combination! Seriously. It sounds awesome. I can actually taste the flavors jumping out of the screen with these photos!