No-Bake Cookie Dough Bites (made with ghee!)
These simple, gluten-free, no-bake cookie dough bites are one of our favorite nut/seed free snacks! They can be rolled into tiny balls and stirred into ice cream, or just cut into squares and eaten as a snack.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup ghee
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 1/2 cups oat flour
- 1/2 cup finely chopped dark chocolate
Instructions
- Line a loaf pan with parchment paper.
- Stir ghee, maple syrup, vanilla, and salt together in a mixing bowl. The ghee and maple syrup won't want to fully emulsify, and that's fine. Just stir them up. Add oat flour and chocolate, and stir until fully incorporated.
- Dump mixture into prepared loaf pan, and use the back of a spoon and/or your hands to press it out into a flat layer. If your dough is very sticky at this point, place in the fridge for 10 minutes to firm. If yours feels like it could be sliced right away, lift the parchment out of the pan, and use a knife to cut into 18 squares.
- Eat immediately, or transfer to a container with a lid and keep at room temperature for up to 5 days.
Notes
To make into cookie dough balls, stop at step 2 and simply roll into balls.
You can make your own oat flour by placing 2 cups of rolled or quick oats into a blender/food processor, and blending until fine.
ALTERNATE COOKIE DOUGH FLAVORS: use raisins instead of chocolate and add 1 teaspoon cinnamon; omit chocolate and use sprinkles and/or a handful of crushed freeze-dried berries; try a different extract like almond or lemon and add chopped nuts or another dried fruit in place of the chocolate.
MAKE IT VEGAN: replace the ghee with soft/room temp coconut oil
MAKE IT GLUTEN-FREE: simply ensure you're using a certified GF oat flour/turning certified GF oats into flour, if you're serving these to someone with an allergy