Oatmeal Cookie Dough Bites. No Bake, Healthy, Delicious!
Oatmeal Cookie Dough bites with pecans, raisins, and a hint of cinnamon are an easy, healthy, and delicious treat when the cookie dough craving hits!
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Craving classic oatmeal cookies but no time to bake? Enter these super healthy, SUPER delicious no-bake oatmeal raisin cookie dough bites with a healthier twist! If you’re a raw cookie dough lover like me (shhh…don’t tell!), this edible oatmeal cookie dough, sans raw eggs, is just what this dietitian ordered! Wink, wink.
This easy recipe is gluten-free (if you use purity protocol oats), vegan, low FODMAP, MIND Diet, Mediterranean Diet, and DASH Diet-friendly.
What you’ll love about this recipe:
Oatmeal Cookie Dough Bites Ingredients & Substitutions
- Pecans. Many cookie dough bite recipes call for peanut butter, cashew butter, almond butter, or your favorite nut butter. But I like these Oatmeal Cookie Dough Bites best with raw pecans.
- Oats. I use purity protocol oats to keep these oatmeal cookie dough bites gluten-free. Quick oats will work as a non-gluten-free option.
- Maple syrup. Many oatmeal cookie dough recipes call for brown sugar, but I prefer maple syrup. And while this recipe is low in added sugar, use a non-nutritive sweetener like Allulose or monk fruit to reduce it even more.
- Ground cinnamon. These cookie dough bites are delicious with cinnamon alone, but you might add other tasty spices: ginger, nutmeg, cloves, or cardamom.
- Ground flaxseed. Besides boosting nutrition, ground flaxseed helps keep the shape of these oatmeal cookie dough bites. If you don’t have ground flaxseed, you can add raw flour, like sorghum flour, brown rice flour, or almond flour.
- Salt. Just a pinch to bring out all the flavors.
- Raisins. If you’re following a low FODMAP diet, you’ll be happy to know that the amount of raisins in this recipe is low FODMAP.
- Optional: Vegan protein powder, vanilla extract, dark chocolate, or milk chocolate chips (in addition to or in place of the raisins).
How to Make Healthy Oatmeal Cookie Dough Bites
- Add dry ingredients (gluten-free oats, pecans, flaxseed, cinnamon, and salt) and maple syrup to a food processor bowl.
- Process the ingredients until well combined and the dough separates from the food processor bowl.
- Stir in raisins. Or chocolate chips if you prefer oatmeal chocolate chip cookie dough.
- Place parchment paper on an ungreased cookie sheet or large plate. Roll the oatmeal raisin edible cookie dough into ~ 10 !-inch balls. Or eat it straight off the spoon! You do you 🙂
- Enjoy at room temperature or store in the refrigerator or freezer. Perfect for any time your sweet, healthy treat craving hits!
What makes Oatmeal Cookie Dough Bites healthy?
- Pecans are rich in heart-healthy monounsaturated fats. They’re rich in antioxidants and gut-healthy fiber. And they’re one of my favorite foods on a brain-healthy MIND diet.
(Read more in this post: Pecan Nutrition 101 + Easy Homemade Maple Pecan Butter)
- Oats are rich in soluble fiber (good for digestion and lowering cholesterol). They’re also a good source of resistant starch for gut health.
- Cinnamon may help with blood sugar control (1).
- Ground flaxseeds are rich in lignans, a type of phytoestrogen, which may help lower the risk of heart disease, reduce breast cancer risk, and ease menopausal symptoms. (2)
In terms of nutrition, one oatmeal cookie dough bite has:
- 120 calories
- 11 grams of carbohydrates (2 grams of fiber, 3 grams of sugar)
- 2 grams of plant-based protein
- 8 grams of fat (only 1 gram of saturated fat)
- 31 mg of sodium
Oatmeal Cookie Dough Bites. No Bake, Healthy, Delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 cup raw pecans
- 1/2 cup gluten free oats
- 2 tablespoons ground flaxseed
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/3 cup raisins
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients, except the raisins, in a food processor with blade attachment. Pulse ingredients together, scraping sides as needed, until well combined. The dough is ready when it pulls away from the side of the food processor bowl and is easy to shape into balls.
- Stir raisins into cookie dough until well combined. Lay parchment paper on a tray or plate.
- Shape dough in to ~ 10 1-inch balls and enjoy, and place on the parchment paper.Enjoy right away or cover and store in refrigerator for up to 4 days, or eat.
- You may also store them in the freezer, in an airtight container for up to 1 month.
Notes
- Any nut can be used in place of pecans. Walnuts would be tasty!
- Use purity protocol oats for a safe gluten-free option.
- Try allulose or monk fruit in place of maple syrup for a low-cal sweetener.
- Other spices to include are ginger, cardamom, cloves, or nutmeg.
- No ground flaxseeds? Add gluten-free flour like almond, brown-rice, or sorghum flour. Or, for a higher protein version, add protein powder in place of the flaxseeds.
- I love these Oatmeal Cookie Dough Bites with raisins, but chocolate chips would be delicious too.
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This was a great recipe! My whole family loved it. I got only few cookies since my wife and son ate them all 🙂
I’m so glad you and your family enjoyed the recipe. Hopefully your family will share more with you next time you make them. Lol. Cheers!
Raw cookie dough balls are one of my favorite indulgences! These little bites are a great!
We have a nearby shop that makes all kinds of raw dough goodies (although they don’t call it that) and we love them, although they are expensive. I have made a kind of raw blueberry cheesecake type thing that was delish (and taken dreadful photos of so haven’t blogged it yet until that’s rectified). Generally I try and stay clear of these things because although healthy, tiny things are hard to eat in moderation. Especially when you have a husband who has the metabolism of a hummingbird and can scoff anything he likes, and in any quantity, without gaining an ounce. I really should hate him. No, I’m not bitter! Lovely oaty balls, m’love
June, July….they both start with a ‘J’! 🙂 LOL! Your summer celebration treats looks yummers! Nice part is that they don’t require the oven being turned on. Quick, easy and whole ingredients…pretty awesome in my book!!!
These look super yummy and I just posted them to my pinterest low FODMAP recipe board. I will definitely be trying these.
I’ve never made raw cookie balls before but these sound really good. It would feel like licking the bowl every time you ate one.
Using two tablespoons of maple syrup per recipe, a Costco 1/2 gallon of maple syrup will allow you to make a 64x recipe. Be sure to drop some by the house and encourage Si-Si to set up a stand on the street corner. One never can have too much maple syrup!
These were so easy to make, I will definitely make more and send them your way if you keep me stocked in maple syrup 🙂
It’s been a long time since I made raw cookie dough balls. Yours sound delicious!
I’m glad we aren’t half way through the year yet! 🙂
Thanks Andrea! Me too 🙂
If you like all these ingredients, I think you will love these dough balls Julie 🙂
I made raw carrot cake balls at work the other day, for the customers and team members, and they LOVED them!! So…I think I’ll be making these soon 🙂 With a few modifications. I can’t wait! I know they will be a hit!
Enjoy your weekend 🙂
I need to get your raw carrot cake ball recipe Gina-yum!!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought of making cookie balls recently. I see them everywhere and know my fam would love them. Yours look delish, of course 😉
Thanks Regan! I was the same way too…I saw so many delicious ideas, and now that I’ve made these and they were SO easy, I’m thinking why did I ever wait so long!
These look wonderful! I haven’t made raw cookies before but I need to try it.
Thanks Ann! And, yes, you do. Soon 🙂
LOL! That’s my problem — trying to manage to save sweet treats when I make them.
I’m usually pretty good about having just a little, but I’m having a hard time resisting these so i can save them for tomorrow’s surprise 🙂