Healthy Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies

These chocolate cookies are chewy and sweet. They don't require any cooking or baking as there is no raw eggs or flour in them.  This is the new way of “unbaking”, healthier, quicker and easier.

Made with 5 nutritious ingredients, these healthy, no bake cookies are gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar free and make a super healthy snack or dessert that can be made ahead of time and they store well.

Just when you thought there was no way to improve on a classic chocolate cookie here is the recipe. These cookies are the stuff of dreams.

Sometimes you just want a simple dessert and when those cravings strike, reach for this fabulous cookies recipe. These treats are a bit like fudge in consistency, perfectly sweet, richly peanut butter-y and balanced with warm hints of vanilla. They come together very quickly and satisfy the cookie, fudge and quick snack craving!

This recipe is so easy that even your kiddos can make them. All you do is mix the ingredients together, add them to a baking sheet and let them firm up.

They come together in no time at all and make the perfect snack or dessert when you need something that’s on the healthier side fast. I can see these making great gifts.

Or make in a large batch and keep them in the freezer so there’s always a healthier treat on hand!

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine Healthy Clean Eating

Keyword clean eating dessert or snack, healthy no bake cookies, healthy peanut butter no bake cookies, no bake peanut butter cookes

Servings 14

Ingredients

• 1 cup dates, soaked 30 minutes and drained
• 1/2 cup peanut (or any other nut) butter
• 1/2 cup oats, instant or quick
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

• Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Or use a silicon baking mat.

  Add dates to food processor and process until a smooth paste forms. You may need to stop and scrape down the sides of your food processor with a spatula to help it mix if necessary .

  Add in peanut butter, oats, cocoa powder and vanilla. Pulse until they are evenly incorporated and blended in. The mixture should be the consistency of cookie dough.

  Using a 1 tablespoon cookie scoop, scoop out dough and place on to prepared cookie sheet, spreading 1 inch apart. Repeat with remaining dough.

  Pick up a dough ball and roll between hands to form a round, smooth ball. Place back on to cookie sheet. Lightly press down on the dough ball so that it flattens into a thick disk. Use the back of a fork to make criss-cross pattern across surface of the cookie. Repeat with remaining dough balls.

  Place cookies into the fridge to help them firm up about 30 minutes before serving.

  Store refrigerated for up to 5 days or freezer for up to 3 months.

   

   

   

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