Edible Cookie Dough Bites (Vegan)

Edible vegan (and gluten free) chocolate covered peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough bites. In other words, the best no bake dessert ever! The perfect way to satisfy your cookie cravings.

Is there anyone out there that doesn’t like eating raw cookie dough? It’s obviously the best part of baking cookies. If you disagree, you should probably stop reading here.

Instead of making actual cookies and eating half of the dough “just to taste test”, stop fooling yourself and just make cookie dough bites instead. They’re easy to make, vegan, gluten free AND covered in chocolate, as if the plain cookie dough wasn’t enough.

For both texture and taste, we also added some peanut butter to the mix. In my opinion, that makes these even more addictive. Peanut butter + cookie dough + chocolate? Yes, yes and yes.

While these are delicious as an easy dessert or snack, they’re also PERFECT for adding to homemade vanilla ice cream. (Let’s be honest, cookie dough is the best ice cream flavor. Always.) So good!

Edible vegan cookie dough

Since this cookie dough is (obviously) eggless AND doesn’t contain regular flour (which needs to be pasteurized to be eaten raw), it’s perfectly edible. Plus, no complicated ingredients like flax eggs, which are often needed for baked vegan cookies.

Let me start by saying that you could definitely just make the cookie dough (pictured above) and stop right there. If you’re like me, you’ll happily enjoy eating it straight from the bowl with a spoon. No shame.

I will say, however, the chocolate coating is worth the effort. Plus, the cute, bite-sized balls aren’t a bad idea for portion control.

Here’s what you’ll need:

Vegan peanut butter cookie dough ingredients

• Vegan butter: be sure to soften the butter at room temp before starting these cookie dough bites.
• Creamy peanut butter: peanut butter helps bind these cookie dough bites. Plus, who doesn’t love peanut butter cookies?! You can also sub with almond or cashew butter.
• Maple syrup: real maple syrup adds some moisture to the mix and tastes great. Plus, it helps cut down on processed sugars.
• Cane sugar: that being said, a small amount of cane sugar adds that cookie dough sweetness that you need. Feel free to omit if desired.
• Oat flour: oat flour doesn’t need to be pasteurized, so it’s perfectly safe to eat raw. You can either purchase oat flour pre-ground (the best option) or make some by pulsing oats in a blender or food processor until fine.
• Salt: plus extra flaky salt for topping!
• Mini chocolate chips: You could use regular size chocolate chips, but we find that they’re a bit too large for these tiny cookie dough bites. Alternatively, chop a dark chocolate bar into small shards.

Dark chocolate coating

Once your cookie dough bites are portioned out and rolled into cute little bites, pop them in the refrigerator while you make the quick dark chocolate coating.

To melt chocolate, you can either use a double boiler or microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring well between each interval, until fully melted. You can also add a teaspoon or so of coconut oil to loosen up the chocolate a bit.

Once the cookie dough bites have been in the fridge for about 30 minutes, you can start coating in chocolate. I typically use a fork to dip each ball in the bowl of chocolate. Be sure to let any excess chocolate fall back into the bowl, then transfer to parchment paper to harden.

If you don’t want to go through the mess of dipping, you can also just drizzle chocolate over each cookie dough bite. I always sprinkle a little flaky salt on top for that salty/sweet perfection, but it’s totally optional.

Store your edible cookie dough bites in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week.

More easy vegan dessert recipes

• Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
• Healthier Almond Joy Bites
• Dark Chocolate Bark with Strawberries and Pistachios
• Dark Chocolate Dipped Figs
• Watermelon Berry Popsicles
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Tart

If you make these Edible Chocolate Covered Vegan Cookie Dough Bites, we’d love for you to leave a comment and rating below! We also love to see your creations on Instagram – tag us at @crowded_kitchen so we can see what you’ve been cooking.

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