Healthy Cookie Dough Cups: Cashew-oat cookie dough center, coated in dark chocolate. Gluten-free and protein-packed.
So back when I was experimenting with some other thumbprint cookies, I also experimented with making some cookie-dough-filled chocolate cups. Since the cookie dough used for the thumbprint cookies is eggless and totally edible without being cooked, I thought, why not?!
So that’s exactly what happened – out of one of the final test batches for those cookies, I used half the dough to make these little candies. Of course, I fell in love with them. Because what’s not to love – cookie dough + chocolate? I mean that’s straight-up happiness right there.
And then I took pictures of them and planned on sharing them, but it’s already mid-January and this whole healthy eating thing is going so well–I mean besides all of the touristy eating I’ve been doing for just about every meal. Okay, right, I am totally failing at this healthy-January thing. But dang. The food and restaurants here are satisfying. There’s a little restaurant called Nando’s that I’m mildly obsessed with. It’s been three out of the past five meals for me. So that’s probably classified as more than a mild obsession, but I digress.
Ingredients in Healthy Cookie Dough Cups:
These treats aren’t full of ingredients you can’t pronounce, and they’re also not full of ingredients you can’t find in the grocery store! Take a gander at the products you’ll need; you could very well already have them in your pantry.
- Old-fashioned oats: This is what we use to create the flour. Processing the oats in the blender turns them to dust, and that’s the flour for this recipe!
- Honey: Honey makes a great sweetener.
- Coconut oil: You’ll find coconut oil in the grocery store near the other vegetable and cooking oils. Coconut oil is high in medium-chain triglycerides; those are the fats that our body needs.
Vanilla: Vanilla helps smooth out the flavors and provides a familiar richness. - Dark Chocolate Chips: You can get dark chocolate chips in the baking aisle of your grocery store. If you’re sensitive to dairy, check the ingredients to be sure there’s none included.
- Raw Cashews: OK, you may not have raw cashews in your pantry, but they’re not hard to find. Look where the rest of the nuts are sold in the grocery store, or check where bulk items are kept.
More Healthy Treat Recipes:
- Healthy Crunch Bars
- Healthy Fruit Tart
- Healthy Ice Cream
- Healthy Blueberry Muffins
- Healthy Pumpkin Cake
