Cookie Dough Protein Balls

These delicious cookie dough protein balls have all the flavors of classic chocolate chip cookie dough but rolled up into a bite sized protein rich snack, healthy treat, or delectable dessert! With 9 grams of protein per protein ball, hitting your protein goals has never tasted more delicious!

Cookie Dough Protein Balls

Having protein rich snacks on hand is my favorite way to balance my blood sugar, maintain my energy, and help me hit my protein goals throughout the day.

But what if those protein snacks could also satisfy your sweet tooth? With these cookie dough protein balls, you can have both a protein rich snack and a sweet tooth satisfier all in one bite!

Loaded with the familiar flavors of a chocolate chip cookie, this protein cookie dough is rolled into easy to eat protein balls that are the perfect no bake treat to help you hit your protein goals throughout the day.

Let’s get to the recipe:

Why you’ll love this protein cookie dough:

You’ll love this protein ball recipe because it is:

• No-bake: A no bake dessert or snack is an easy way to eat more protein. By using oat flour, this no bake protein ball is perfectly safe to eat with no baking. Simply mix all of these protein cookie dough ingredients together in a bowl, roll them into a ball, and enjoy!

• Easy to snack on: Keeping protein snacks on hand is essential to meeting your protein goals throughout the day, balancing blood sugar, and maintaining your energy levels.

• Customizable: This recipe mimics a protein chocolate chip cookie dough but you can easily swap out the chocolate chips for other preferred cookie ingredients that can be added to your protein cookie dough mix.

• Meal prep friendly: Prep this protein balls on a sunday and enjoy them throughout the week.

• DELICIOUS: Protein cookie dough that ACTUALLY tastes like cookie dough? That’s a recipe worth trying!

Ingredients you’ll need:

Here’s what you’ll need for protein cookie dough:

• Oat flour: Oat flour keeps this a no-bake recipe. You can swap this for almond flour if that’s what you have on hand.

• Almond butter: I recommend using almond butter for these cookie dough protein balls because I find the flavor to be less over powering than peanut butter.

• Butter: You may be tempted to leave this out of the recipe (and you can if you insist) but I highly recommend using butter for this protein ball because it will enhance the cookie dough flavor. Trust me on this one!

• Vanilla whey protein powder: This will add a perfect level of neutral sweetness to your protein cookie dough. Feel free to substitute this for another flavor of protein powder that works best with the cookie flavor you are trying to mimic.

• Milk: This will hydrate your protein cookie dough and give it the moist texture of typical cookie dough!

• Vanilla extract: A cookie dough must.

• Maple syrup: To add some sweetness and help your protein cookie dough balls stick together. Otherwise, your dough will be too crumbly.

• Chocolate chips: you can use mini or regular, dark chocolate or semi-sweet, or even sub for cacao nibs! This will really give your protein cookie dough that classic cookie dough flavor.

• Salt: To balance out the sweet

That’s all you’ll need for these protein balls.

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Step by Step Instructions:

Now let’s walk through how to make these protein cookie dough balls:

Step 1:

Place your almond butter in a microwave safe dish and warm for 20-30 seconds or until runny. Melt your butter.

Then, add all of your ingredients to a medium mixing bowl and stir until they have reached the consistency of cookie dough.

Step 2:

Add all of your ingredients to a medium mixing bowl and stir until they have reached the consistency of cookie dough.

Step 3:

Take 1-2 tablespoons of protein cookie dough mix into your hands and roll them into a ball, pressing the chocolate chips in so they are secure within each protein ball. Place your protein ball in a glass pyrex storage container and repeat this process until your have used all of your batter.

Cover your container of protein balls with the lid and place them in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes to set. Keep these stored int he refrigerator and enjoy them throughout the week!

Swaps, substitutions, and suggestions:

Here are a few changes you can make to this recipe:

• Use a different flour: The key to a no-bake dessert recipe is to make it with flour that is safe to eat raw such as oat flour or almond flour. This recipe calls for oat flour but you can easily swap that for another safe to eat flour option that you have on hand.

• Make them into homemade protein bars: Cookie dough protein balls not your thing? Make this recipe into cookie dough protein bars instead! Simply press your cookie dough into a loaf pan, cool, then cut it into bars.

• Skip the chocolate chips: If you drop the chocolate chips, you have a classic protein cookie dough recipe that can be mixed with any fillings of choice and turned into any healthy cookie dough recipe.

And more! Make this recipe your own and tag me on instagram with any fun ideas you come up with!

Recipe FAQ:

1. How many grams of protein are in each protein ball?

   1. This depends on how many protein balls you make but on average, each protein ball will have about 8 to 9 grams of protein.

2. Do I have to use oat flour?

   1. You can swap the oat flour for almond flour to keep this a no-bake recipe.

3. How to store protein balls?

   1. Store these protein balls in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one week!

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Protein Balls

These delicious cookie dough protein balls have all the flavors of classic chocolate chip cookie dough but rolled up into a bite sized protein rich snack, healthy treat, and delectable dessert! Hitting your protein goals has never tasted more delicious!

Prep time: 10 MinTotal time: 10 Min

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cup oat flour
• 1/2 cup almond butter, warmed
• 2 scoops vanilla protein powder (~1/2 cup)
• 2 tbsp milk
• 1/4 cup maple syrup
• 1 tbsp melted butter
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp salt

Instructions

1. Place your almond butter in a microwave safe dish and warm for 20-30 seconds or until runny. Melt your butter.
2. Add all of your ingredients to a medium mixing bowl and stir until they have reached the consistency of cookie dough.
3. Take 1-2 tablespoons of protein cookie dough mix into your hands and roll them into a ball, pressing the chocolate chips in so they are secure within each protein ball. Place your protein ball in a glass pyrex storage container and repeat this process until your have used all of your batter.
4. Cover your container of protein balls with the lid and place them in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes to set. Keep these stored int he refrigerator and enjoy them throughout the week!

Nutrition Facts

Calories

240

Fat

13 g

Carbs

25 g

Sugar

11 g

Protein

9 g

Fiber

2 g

*All nutrition information has been approximated and may vary based on brands used, portion size, and any other personal recipe modifications.

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