Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Balls

These peanut butter cookie dough balls are a real treat that’s also a guilt free one and made with healthy ingredients.  You won’t know it after biting into one of these gems. Made without raw eggs or flour. They are sure to become a family favorite. Enjoy!

These tasty little treats are a great recipe to make with the kids.

For one reason, they’ll love running their hands in the batter and rolling it into balls.

My son who is now a teenager still likes making these and has been helping me since he was a little boy.

This recipe is about ten years old. Even before cookie dough was a big thing, and you know how big it is these days.

Everyone is talking about it. It’s now sold in the refrigerated department in the grocery stores. Of course, there’s bunches of recipes all over the internet. 

There is even a store in New York City that only serves cookie dough. Every flavor you can imagine. 

 A few years ago, a friend sent my family a gift from that store and we had a fun and delicious time eating it all up. 

We’ll, the first time I made these particular cookie dough balls, I was thinking of something tasty and healthy for my kids to have as a snack to bring to school or an after school snack.

  At the time, my daughter was 17 and my son 6. My niece Cara used to watch my son Josh when he was little a few days after school.

We were all the kitchen at the same time while I was making these. So, perfect time for them to taste my first go at it. 

To say the least, they loved them. 

Who doesn’t love digging into some cookie dough? I can’t think of anyone.

I made these into bite size balls. It makes them even more fun and yummy to eat.

These are made without raw eggs or raw flour and has great textures from the dried fruit and chocolate chips.

However, this recipe is very versatile, you can add your favorite dried fruit, nuts, chips.  They come out so scrumptious; you’ll find it hard to just have one! 

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Balls

Yields: about 26 balls

Nutrition: per ball: calories 82, fat 3 g, sat fat .6 g carbs 11.8 g, fiber .8 g, sugar 8.9 g, protein 2.6 g

WW Smart Points: 4 – WW Points Plus: 2

What’s in these peanut butter cookie dough balls

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup oats, quick cooking or regular
• 3/4 cup fat free powdered milk
• 3 tbsp graham cracker crumbs
• 1/2 cup all natural peanut butter — smooth or chunky; I used Skippy All Natural for this recipe
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
• pinch salt
• 1/4 cup dried currants or rasins
• 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
• 1-3 tbsp cold water or apple juice – the actual amount depends on when you have the right consistency to roll up into balls

This is one of the easiest and simple recipes

Directions:

1. In a large mixing bowl, stir all the dry ingredients first. You can place oats in the blender if you want a smoother texture. Either way is delicious. 
2. Add the rest of the ingredients.
3. Stir until you can roll the batter into small walnut size balls. You may need to add the water or apple juice to be able to roll them.
4. You should have a total of 26. Place in fridge for about 15 minutes. That’s all there is to it! I keep these in a sealed container up to 2 days on the counter or store in fridge up to 4 days.

Enjoy the peanuty deliciousness! 

Here are a few more peanut butter recipes to enjoy!

Chocolate Sweetheart Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut Butter Cup Banana Cake

Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Oat Bars-No Flour Added

Low Carb Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

No Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Pie