Healthy Sugar-free Edible Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough–Dangerously Delicious
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Can’t keep from eating cookie dough? Now with this healthy edible cookie dough, you can eat as much as you please! It’s ready in a flash and is vegan, grain free, paleo, and sooo good–it was even called “dangerously delicious” by one of my taste testers.
What are you waiting for? Grab a bowl and get mixing!
May I introduce to you, the temptation of the week–Chocolate Chip Healthy Cookie Dough.
You’re going to really thank me for this.
And you’re going to want to make it now and stuff it in your mouth, and maybe hide in the closet and eat it.
And keep it all for yourself.
This paleo cookie dough is literally our favorite snack right now. Now, we still LOVE these Green Bean Chips and Coconut Chips, and these Almond Joy Bars, I have to say that I think I knocked it out of the park with this healthy cookie dough recipe.
Not only does this dough not have any eggs in it so you don’t need to fear the dreaded salmonella, but this paleo cookie dough is seriously good for you.
Like really healthy.
Most “healthy cookie dough recipes” out there either have grain flour or oats in them, or they are high in carbs. Well, carbs can be fine, depending on their source but I am not a fan of eating uncooked and unsoaked grains (See How to Soak Grains). Soaking grains helps reduce phytates and makes them more digestible.
But this paleo cookie dough recipe has no grains. None. It’s full of healthful almond flour and organic coconut flour, and depending on what sweetener you use, it’s low in carbs too.
But believe me, when you eat this vegan cookie dough you’ll think you were eating the real thing. Tollhouse heaven, I’m telling you. 🙂
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Why We LOVE this Sugar-free Cookie Dough
Our household is really busy. I run this blog and my husband is a busy professor, plus we homeschool and have special dietary needs and health issues we are always working on. (my oldest has life-threatening food allergies and had severe eczema as a baby) and well, let’s just say things are hoppin’. So no bake easy recipes are king around here.
When we’re running all directions, it’s great to be able to whip up something easy and healthy that will fill up my growing boys (boy can they EAT!!) and not take me a bunch of time. I really don’t like buying packaged foods–no matter how healthy they are, because frankly, they are expensive.
And due to my son’s allergies, it’s hard to find things that fit his diet, AND fit my frugal ways, AND pass my standards for being healthy enough.
This vegan edible cookie dough does all of that.
It’s healthy, allergy-friendly (except for the almonds, which there are options for–), and it’s pretty inexpensive to make, AND it’s easy.
I mean those videos of bloggers making edible cookie dough in their Kitchen Aid might look nice, but this mama doesn’t want to deal with cleaning those beaters if she doesn’t have to.
This healthy cookie dough? Just mix and eat.
And did I mention delicious? I had one tester of this recipe tell me that it’s “dangerous.”
Dangerously good, I say :).
This edible cookie dough comes together so simply, you don’t even need electric beaters, but you can use them if you like–because it’s kind of fun to lick the beaters and know it’s OK to do so, amiright?
Super Tasty Variations
Butter or Other Fat:
The recipe has butter as an ingredient. I’ve made this with coconut oil also, but we like it better made with butter.
If you would prefer the vegan version, please do use coconut oil, but if you don’t need to avoid the butter, by all means use it. You’ll be glad you did.
Walnuts….Yes!
Walnuts taste great added to this dough. Typically I make a whole batch without walnuts and then portion off 3/4 of the dough and add the walnuts to that part so my son has his dedicated “walnut free” paleo cookie dough to munch on without worries of a reaction.
Chocolate Chip Options
For the chocolate chips in this vegan cookie dough, we tried several options. The Kirkland Fair Trade Chocolate Chips were amazing. However, our local Costco isn’t carrying them any longer :(. So we tried Nestle chocolate chips and we weren’t really pleased.
The chips tasted kind of waxy to me, plus after I opened the bag I found that they had GMO soy in them–blech:(.
We’ve tried Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips, which are pretty good–they just have sugar in them so if you are watching carbs or sugar intake, they won’t work.
I love that Lily’s are low carb, and they were pretty good.
In my mind, if you are trying to eat low carb, making this paleo cookie dough with my Homemade Chocolate Chips is the way to go. If you make them with chunks, it doesn’t look as pretty, but the dough will taste great!
Add in the walnuts and you have an incredible easy no bake dessert. Kirkland’s walnuts are much more fresh than a lot of nuts out there. You can really tell. We’ve purchased nuts from Aldi and compared them side by side to Kirkland’s. I’m not saying this to knock Aldi, because it’s a great place to shop but if you are able to spend the extra on Kirkland’s nuts–do it.
Serving Options
You can serve this paleo cookie dough in little jars like these with a spoon (aren’t they fun??). Alternatively, you could make them into little cookie dough bites similar to my Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Bites. I’m going to maybe work on making this dough a little more cookie dough bite-friendly to share with you later. This recipe seems possibly better suited to just eating as dough.
Can You Make Cookies Out of This Dough?
So–the answer is–yes!
I plan on working on the recipe more going forward, but we tried it using the equivalent of 2 eggs and 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, and the cookies didn’t last very long.
For the eggs, you could use this powdered egg replacer or alternatively you could use a flax egg, chia egg, or gelatin egg.
Special Diet Substitutions
- Coconut Oil: You can sub in coconut oil for the butter if you like, but we love the flavor that the butter gives to the dough.
- Stevia: 1/4 teaspoon stevia is equivalent to 8 scoops stevia (see How to Use Stevia). If you would like to substitute another sweetener, 1 scoop (1/32 teaspoon) stevia equals 2 tablespoons of another sweetener.
- Sweetener: You can use whatever sweetener you would like instead of xylitol, but if you use something like organic coconut sugar it will affect the resulting color.
- AIP: For AIP, use Organic Tiger Nut Flour for the almond flour, carob chips for the chocolate chips, and coconut oil for butter. Use coconut oil instead of butter for vegan and paleo. Also use an AIP-compliant sweetener.
- THM: This recipe is an “S” for those on the Trim Healthy Mama plan.
Recipe Notes
- Homemade Vanilla: If you would like to make your own vanilla, here is my recipe for an alcohol-free version.
- Homemade Chocolate Chips: My DIY Chocolate Chips are a great make-your-own option for chocolate chips.
- You might want to blend the sweetener before adding it to prevent the dough from being grainy.
How to Store
You can keep edible cookie dough in the fridge likely for up to five days, and in the freezer for at least a month. It’s best to scoop the dough into balls before freezing.
Thaw the dough balls the refrigerator.
Chocolate Chip Sugar-free Cookie Dough (grain-free, vegan, & low-carb)
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups almond flour
- 1 1/4 cups granulated low-carb sweetener (see notes above for substitutions)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup coconut flour
- 1 cup butter (use coconut oil for vegan alternative)
- 1/4 teaspoon white stevia extract powder (see alternatives in Recipe Notes)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups chocolate chips (see Recipe Notes above for Homemade Chocolate / Carob Chip alternative)
- 1 cup walnuts (optional)
Instructions
- Soften the butter at room temperature. If desired, melting the butter will make it very easy to work with.
- If desired, powder sweetener in blender, to make the resulting product more smooth.
- Blend flour and sweeteners with the butter and mix well to combine. You can use an electric mixer if you like.
- Add in remaining ingredients and stir gently to combine.
- Get out your spoon and dive in!
Notes
- You might want to blend the sweetener before adding it to prevent the dough from being grainy.
Nutrition
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So that’s it.
I guarantee you will be making this paleo cookie dough over and over again…..and eating it gleefully.
You might even hide it from your kids :).
Better yet–make a batch of this healthy cookie dough and don’t tell your kids it’s edible. Then whip out a spoon and start digging in and see what their reaction is!
Did you sneak eating cookie dough when you were young (or older)?
What is the serving size and net carb?
We are working on getting this functionality on the site – in the meantime you can use a nutrition calculator to determine the values. I think a serving is the same as what you would use for a serving of cookies. Enjoy!
Can you use “stevia in the raw” instead of Xylitol? Would the amount be the same?
It should be the same. Enjoy!
Okay thank you! Will try it and let you know how it comes out! This sounds yummy!
Hope you like it!
Love this idea, thanks.
BTW – Our Costco doesn’t carry the chips anymore, but we have a new Costco Business Center opened nearby and they do carry the Kirkland chocolate chips. If you have one nearby, perhaps you can get them there.
Thank you! There is a Costco Business center that is a brick and mortar? I think they might have the chips online…
Yes, they have brick and mortar in some areas.
This is from Wikipedia:
As of August 2017, there are 17 Costco Business Centers in the United States, located in Orlando, Florida; Phoenix, Arizona; California (Commerce, Hawthorne, Hayward, North Hollywood, San Diego, South San Francisco and Westminster); Denver, Colorado; Morrow, Georgia; Bedford Park, Illinois; Hackensack, New Jersey; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Washington (Lynnwood, and Fife)
So interesting! So how is this different from a regular warehouse?
Looks amazing! How much would you consider a serving for THM standards ? I know almond flour is super calorie dense so I don’t want to go overboard as I’m sure I could fall in love with this recipe, ha! Also if you don’t have xylitol, would you say THM gentle sweet instead at the same ratio ? Thanks !
Hi Mel. Hmmmm. That’s tough to say. My understanding is that you just have to watch the calories b/c I haven’t seen other restrictions. Have you? For THM Gentle Sweet you do 2/3 the amt of xylitol. Sorry for the delay in responding and hope you like it!
I used monkfruit sweetener in place of xylitol and omitted stevia. I also used unsweetened chocolate and O…M…G…it tastes soooo good!!! I absolutely love it! I’ve embraced the low-carb way of eating and this will for sure satisfy any occasional sweet craving! Thanks for the recipe!! ???
So glad to hear it!! Which monk fruit do you like? Unsweetened chocolate – wow! I always use low carb chocolate chips but that’s a great idea!
I use Lakanto Monkfruit Sweetener, purchased on Amazon. I wasn’t sure how it would turn out because I just started using that type of sugar substitute, but I was really impressed by the results ?. Thanks again for sharing your recipes!
So great- thanks for telling me!! Working on a new recipe soon!
HI Adrienne, I haven’t tried this yet because I want the cookies and not just the cookie dough! I’m not allergic to anything, but I am trying to avoid sugar. Do you think that if I added baking powder o something like that, that I could bake the dough and have great cookies? I’d rather have advice than have something to toss in the garbage when I ruin it!
Thank you for sharing your work!
Hello Anita – sorry for the delay! I have been inundated w/ things re: the blog and personal life and am getting over being sick. I think they would work w/ a leavening agent and egg or egg replacer. I haven’t tried it but I think so. I could try hopefully over the next week. I would add in the same amt as regular Toll House dough and see. Feel free to touch base in about a week if I haven’t tried and gotten back to you!
Hi there! I finally tried making cookies with these. I would like to make them again to develop a better recipe but they were pretty good. We don’t eat eggs so we used 2 flax eggs and I think I did 1 tsp baking soda. They held together better when we baked them longer. They were gone in a flash though! Did you ever try them?
Could you use peanut butter as a replacement for the butter in the recipe?
I think that would be too heavy. I would do either butter or coconut oil instead. But you could try….maybe a small amount.
This was delicious! I did use half the amount of sweetener listed since it was sweet enough without the full amount
What is the nutritional info, particularly grams of carbs and sugar? Also, what is a serving size? Thanks!
Great! I don’t have nutritional info on the site right now but hope to add it—I’m up to my eyeballs right now :). I guess a serving size…hmmmm….maybe 2-3 T worth??
Is there a nut-free alternative to almond flour? I’m pulling out my hair trying to find nut FREE low carb, healthy ideas for packing in his school lunches and thought this would be PERFECT, but alas, no nuts allowed in his classroom! *sigh* Thanks! 🙂
You could try pumpkin or sunflower seed flour – if you grind it yourself. I find they grind up “OK” in a coffee grinder or vitamix.
I can try to do another version with butters instead of flour perhaps? This one tasted better, however. How about this recipe? https://wholenewmom.com/recipes/snickerdoodle-cookie-dough-balls/
Here are some more:
https://wholenewmom.com/recipes/no-bake-coconut-delights-sugar-dairy-egg-and-grain-free/
https://wholenewmom.com/recipes/green-bean-chips/
This with coconut butter or seed butters: https://wholenewmom.com/recipes/healthy-chocolate-almond-joy-home-made-candy/
https://wholenewmom.com/recipes/honey-bunches-of-oats-coconut-chips/
hope that helps!
I made this on Christmas Eve — I cut the recipe in half because it was just for me. It’s really good. I was pleasantly surprised as I always loved the real deal. I would definitely make this again. Oh, and the only thing I did not do was add the stevia.
So happy to hear it! 🙂 I am working on more flavors now!
I made this with 1 cup Swerve sweetener and no stevia. It tasted really good. Plenty of sweetness. Almost more sweet than necessary. I may reduce to 3/4 cup next time. Thank you for the recipe.
So glad you liked it!
I made this today, it’s awful, way too sweet and nothing like cookie dough in consistency or flavor. I followed the recipe exactly as written except I used Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips because that’s what I always buy. Xylitol isn’t readily available here so I had to order, at $10/lb, using 1 1/4c made this an expensive bowl of something I can’t eat.
Hello Shelly. I’m so sorry you felt that way. We make it all the time and love it and others have said the same to me including the friend I mentioned who called it “dangerous”. Maybe something went wrong along the way? If you decide to try it again, maybe do 1/4 batch.
I don’t know what could go wrong? I think 1/4c of xylitol would have been more than enough, not 1 1/4c., at least for me anyway. Won’t be making it again, trying to decide if it’s worth it to try to add to it to make it edible or just throw it away.
I think it’s a matter of taste. I have seen recipe that are less sweet than mine and those that are more (based on the ratio of flours & nut butters to sweeteners) -maybe if you left out the stevia it would have been just right for you. I would for sure just add more of the other ingredients to taste and make it to your liking.
Ghee is dairy; it’s clarified butter. (I’m Vegan too)
This looks delicious. Can’t wait to try it! Will you have any Christmas recipes coming soon? Alternatives to the Christmas Cookies, Candy (caramel, fudge), etc?
Thanks!!
Hi there. Yes it is dairy – did I write somewhere that it isn’t? I know that some ghees are certifiably free of milk proteins.
Hmmmm……I have this post https://wholenewmom.com/recipes/holiday-recipes/30-healthy-christmas-cookies-healthy-cookie-recipes/ and this: https://wholenewmom.com/recipes/healthy-fudge-dairy-free-fudge/
This is one of my all time faves. https://wholenewmom.com/recipes/healthy-chocolate-almond-joy-home-made-candy/
Hope that helps!
Is there a substitute for the stevia powder? Or is it really necessary?
I think the added sweetness is necessary. You could add another 1 cup of sweetener but you might have to play around with the type and amount as it will change the texture. Hope you like it.
How is this vegan when there is Butter?
Hi Marie. I wrote that you can use coconut oil instead for a vegan option. Hope that helps and that you like it!
You could use Enjoy Life chips maybe? They taste so good and should fit your needs!
Yes you could but they have too much sugar. I forgot to mention that we prefer lower carbo options but bought the Nestle and the Kirkland for convenience and cost’s sake. But you are right that Enjoy Life would be better w/o having the non GMO soy. I will share that in the post. Thanks~
What’s the texture like? I made some like this before (different recipe) and they had the consistency of sand. ?
I’m hoping these don’t AND I have some of the Kirkland chocolate chips laying around so I’m excited.
It’s great. It is just like cookie dough. I will say that I should add that it’s a bit gritty b/c of the xylitol but you could blend it first. I believe I wrote that in the post?
Have you ever tried making this dough into baked cookies?
No, I haven’t. It would need leavening but I was thinking I should try!
This stuff looks delicious, we are doing a low carb diet, ketogenic, do you know how many carbs are in this and the serving amount? Look forward to trying this recipe. thanks
Hi Debra. We are working on getting this done but we have been held up with technical issues. Do you have a reliable online calculator? None of these ingredients has a bunch of carbs. Thanks for your patience.
We can’t do dairy or coconut. Suggestions ? Looks great !!
What solid fat would you typically use? Can you do ghee? You could use more almond flour for the coconut flour. Hope it works well!