3 Ingredient No Bake Healthier Chocolate Cookies
These soft and chewy no bake chocolate cookies are healthier than classic chocolate cookies. Made with just 3 ingredients, the cookies don't contain any flour, eggs, refined sugar, dairy, butter or oil.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (128 g) pitted Medjool date halves
- 5 tbsp (80 g) natural cashew butter with no added oils, or natural peanut butter with no added oils
- 1/4 cup (24 g) unsweetened Dutch process cocoa powder
Instructions
- Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Add dates to a large food processor. Pulse until the dates are completely smooth and like a paste. This can take a few minutes and you want to stop your food processor and scrape the sides a few times to help it blend. A few bits of visible date skin is okay but you do want a mostly smooth paste.
- Add the cashew butter to the date paste and blend until the cashew butter is fully incorporated, scraping down the sides of the food processor as needed to help it blend. Your mixture should become thicker once the cashew butter is added.
- Add in the cocoa powder and blend until the cocoa powder is fully incorporated. Your mixture should appear crumbly, almost like small cocoa pebbles cereal, but when you pinch it together, it should stick. If it is not sticky and your mixture is too dry, you can add a little bit of water or a little more cashew butter until the mixture is sticky enough to stick together when pressed together.
- Use a 1.5 tbsp cookie scoop to scoop and pack the dough. Release onto your palm and roll into a smooth ball. Place ball onto your prepared baking sheet and press down so that it forms a thick round disk, about 1/2 inch thick. Repeat with remaining dough. If desired, you can use the back of a metal spoon to smooth and round the edges of the cookies. If you are planning on decorating the cookies with melted chocolate drizzles, do so at this time.
- Place the cookies into the fridge for about 30 minutes to 1 hour to firm up further. The cookies won't change much but they should firm up enough so they are easy to hold. Store any uneaten cookies in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer.
Notes
- Make sure to use fresh soft dates which will blend better. You want to avoid using dates softened through soaking in water if possible because the added water makes the date paste a little too wet and sticky and you'll need a lot more cocoa powder to firm up the cookie dough.
- The cup measurement for the dates is after the pits have been removed and the dates are broken into halves.
- Make sure your cashew butter or peanut butter has no added oils. The cookie dough will not set if you use a cashew or peanut butter with added oils.
- I use Joolies Medjool Dates (Amazon | Target)*, Octonuts pure cashew butter* and Rodelle Dutch process cocoa powder*
- *These product links are affiliate links. This means I earn a commission from qualifying purchases.
- The optional chocolate drizzle is made from 1/4 cup chocolate chips melted down with about 1 tsp coconut oil to keep the chocolate very thin and easy to drizzle. The coconut oil also helps the chocolate stay soft even after it has set/firmed up.
- Please note that these cookies are not low sugar. Even though they are naturally sweetened, dates do contain a high amount of sugar.
- Estimated nutrition does not include melted chocolate drizzle on the cookies.
Serving: 1cookie, Calories: 101kcal, Carbohydrates: 14g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 5g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 10g, NET CARBS: 12
The nutrition information provided are only estimates based on an online nutritional calculator. This is not a comprehensive list of all the nutrients in the recipe (i.e., does not include vitamins, cholesterol, etc). I am not a certified nutritionist. Please consult a nutritionist or doctor for accurate information and any dietary restrictions and concerns you may have.
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