Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies Dough Protein Bites

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Every now and again, a little voice pipes up inside my mind. I’d like to say that this voice comes out of nowhere, but it usually comes out of a day in which I’ve survived solely on chocolate and vegetables.

This is what the little voice says:

Protein. Prooooooootein. PROOOOOOOOOTEIN! Please?

Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Protein Bite

I think it might be this little voice that keeps causing my jars of sunflower seed butter and White Chocolate Wonderful peanut butter to magically become half-empty in the space of fifteen minutes, and for my stomach to become correlatively half-full. But that could also just be my nut butter addiction, for which a twelve step process has yet to be formalised.

Sure, I could react to this protein craving by pulling together savoury ingredients like normal people would (chickpeas, quinoa, tempeh, meat-if-you’re-into-that-kind-of-thing, nutritional yeast), but I get the distinct feeling that it isn’t “normalcy” that you glorious folk keep returning here for.

Wayfaring Chocolate with Rodin Sculptures at the National Gallery of Australia

Because really, who wants normal? I much prefer my brand of doing high-kicks with Jenni, enacting spy poses with Lorraine, writing the scribe reports for my choir in rhymes or haiku, imitating Rodin sculptures in public, and making cashew dips that are erroneously called cheese. And laughing. I don’t know if the amount I laugh in a day would be called normal by most people but, by golly, I refuse to stop finding this world an hilarious place (most of the time).

Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies Dough Protein Bite

Then again, I refuse to accept that making chocolate chip cookie dough treats instead of a casserole is abnormal, even if the treats have been protified (it’s totally a word; don’t look it up) with Sunwarrior Vanilla protein powder (raw and vegan!). Particularly when the treats are tasty like this, and involve not only sunflower seed butter, coconut flour, and protein powder, but also delicious dark chocolate. And even more particularly when they taste rather nice (if your protein powder is nice) in their no-bake state, but even better when microwaved for half-to-one-minute so that the chocolate melts and the texture and taste becomes more baked-cookie-like.

Deliciousness with a side of healthiness is my kind of normal. I hope it’s yours too.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Protein Bite

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Protein Bites

Inspired by Mama Pea’s Cookie Dough Redux Bars
Makes 15-20, depending on the size of your balls. Giggle.

  • 2.5 tb (50g) sunflower seed butter
  • 4 scoops (84g) Sunwarrior Vanilla protein powder
  • 2 tb (20g) coconut flour
  • 3/4 cup soy milk
  • Stevia, to taste (or other sweetener of choice, see recipe)
  • 1/4 cup (40g) dark (vegan) chocolate chips (or carob chips or cacao nibs)
  1. In a medium bowl, stir together the sunflower seed butter, protein powder, coconut flour and soy milk until well combined and the batter has reached a cohesive cookie-dough-like consistency. Add in stevia to taste (I used 16 drops of NuNaturals Vanilla Stevia. If you’d rather not use stevia, I’d recommend cutting the soy milk down to 1/2 cup and added in a liquid sweetener like agave, honey, or maple syrup to taste, starting with 2 tb, then adding more soy milk if needed).
  2. Stir in the chocolate chips, then roll the cookie dough into balls.
  3. At this point you have two options. The first is very easy, and involves storing the high-raw vegan chocolate chip cookies dough bites in the fridge and eating them willy-nilly. The second is almost as easy, and involves microwaving individual bites for 30 seconds – 1 minute, until the chocolate is melted and the cookie dough has become more cooked-cookie-like. As I mentioned, I prefer the second option, as the chocolate chips blend in more this way and, overall, I like the taste better. However, those of you who think that the microwave is the devil’s plaything may like to stick with the no-bake treat, or have a go at baking the bites in the oven.
  4. The End.

I’m submitting this to Amy’s Slightly Indulgent Tuesdays Event, Ricki’s Wellness Weekend, and Allergy-Friendly Lunchbox Love!

81 thoughts on “Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies Dough Protein Bites”

  1. Hmmm coconut flour…. I can eat that. I didn’t even realise there was such a thing. I can’t believe I’m getting food ideas from your blog – will wonders never cease??!

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  3. hey I came across a new word today that seems to synchronise with your post – proteinaceous – I think it is what you get when you protify food

    I also bought sunflower seed butter today – though am a bit dubious about it because I love peanut butter made with 100% peanuts – and this one (eskal?) has sugar and salt an all that stuff! More synchronicity!

    But I just don’t have any protein powder – I am sure I get enough protein without it – maybe it is all that tofu and legumes etc

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    • I like protify more :P Proteinaeous makes me think of deep-sea creatures, for some reason!

      Hmm, if you’re used to unsalted peanut butter, then the Eskal sunflower butter might taste a bit too intense for you in that regard! I still find it addictive from the spoon though :P

      Rather than suggest you sub for protein powder here, though, I’d suggest using the sunflower butter in the coconut treats I made a while back, or else just buying Medjool dates for my brownies ;)

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    • Oooh, martial arts training! That’s awesome! I, on the other hand, devoured these after an intense session of sitting on my bottom all day.

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  6. The recipe sounds interesting, it contains ingredients I don’t have unfortunately.

    “to magically become half-empty in the space of fifteen minutes, and for my stomach to become correlatively half-full”. And you have discovered that the jar and your stomach are the same size.

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  9. Protein powder creeps me out to the max, because my parents would always make a “drink” in the morning filled with all sorts of nasty healthy stuff. I was always bothered by them talking about having their “drink.” Time for your “drink!” In my mind, the air quotes exist around that word always. On occasion I would drink some (of my “drink”) and want to barf. However, I’m sure there’s way better protein powder out there nowadays, including some that doesn’t even taste too much like chalk! Yay!

    These sound like something I would be willing to try, but I do get plenty o’ protein. I don’t get enough showing off my guns while posing as a sculpture. I do think September 21st hasn’t been very bad thus far. I don’t think I’d like Stevia. I do like the spelling of savory savoooooooooooooury.

    Okay, enough. To sum up, I would “drink” these down!

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    • Oh heavens, I can’t imagine my parents ever engaging in protein-powder behaviour! The idea makes me giggle. :P I actually ordered this Sunwarrior online because, in my very very limited experience, the majority of protein powders in Australia are whey-based and/or revolting. I have to admit I bought Sunwarrior mostly for the novelty value.

      Emma, when you come live with me in November, we’ll eat and drink far more delicious things than this. And I’ll take you an a sculpture-posing adventure all over Canberra. It shall be GRAND.

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  10. I like your iherb note :)

    Do you think subbing another flour would be okay? I want to make these!

    I concur with your statement about being normal – totally overrated! We would so be friends in real life – I’d even bring you bananas.

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    • Bahaha, you caught that? Darn late-night editing. I did catch it before reading these comments, and have been wondering who would make fun of me for it :P

      I’d actually just leave out the coconut flour, for sure. If you wanted you could add more protein powder, but I think I’d rather just leave the coconut flour out and start with 1/2 cup of soy milk instead of 3/4. That would definitely work :)

      You’d bring me bananas?! Oh, Errign! You wild thing! :D

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  11. I would propose a cookie exchange, except I believe there is absolutely nothing (mail-able) in Taiwan that you couldn’t get in Australia. Famous dumplings, cilantro-ice cream-peanut rolls, and papaya milk — all things that would make the mailman very unhappy. But if you ever think of something you’d like, it shall be on.

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    • Oh lady, that’s a lovely idea! In fact, I think you should stop teaching and devote your time to inventing a Bubble Tea that can last the distance, or simply sit back and wait while I build my teleportation device, so that you can bring it here in person. HUGS!

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  13. I love how in the last picture, the cookie looks so pleased with its own deliciousness that it has started dribbling chocolate everywhere. Good thing you had the foresight to sit him on a plate (I don’t usually go round assigning gender to anything, let alone cookies, but it just seems like a ‘he’.)

    I’m pretty sure you are directly responsible for my own nut butter addiction – thank you! :D

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    • Laura, you’re so right about that. I know that I always start dribbling everywhere when I’m happy. Even though I’m not a He.

      *bows* You’re so welcome, fabulous lady! Every moment I spread the nut butter love is a moment of joy.

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    • With the help of your registered official dietician status, we shall make “protify” the next Oxford dictionary word of the year. Fingers crossed.

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  15. WOWZA, how freakin good do these look? I want one, any left overs? Cool pics too, love the ooozy chocolate. YUMMO!!!! Reminds me of my visit to the US years ago, chowing down on dough with the kids who didnt make it to the cooking stage. Soooooo good!

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    • There would have been if you’d asked last night. Too late! :P Teehee, I’m glad you like the oozy picture; I wasn’t sure whether people would think it looked icky or not!

      And being reminded of the US is nothing but fabulous in my books.

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  16. Um yum. I like anything in ball form. Oh yes – I do.

    I’d make these straight away but they won’t be vegan – I have heard of Sunwarrior protein powder and Stevia (such is the influence of the blogging world!), but where in the world can we get them here in Aus??

    PS – You know I just bought 1kg worth of coconut flour because I saw one recipe on a blog. I looked at it all and was thinking WTF am I going to do with it all. So thank you :D

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    • I ordered Sunwarrior from here, because iHerb gave me an error message when I tried to order through them, saying it was forbidden by Customs. But I know others have had luck with iHerb, and I also saw Sunwarrior in a health food store up in Brisbane! So it can be got :) And I also ordered the stevia from iHerb :)

      P.S. I’ve eaten almost my entire bag of coconut flour just as “coconut cream”, where you mix one part coconut flour to three parts liquid (soy milk) and sweetener. So good on pancakes/oatmeal!

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  17. “Deliciousness with a side of healthiness” = my dream for the world :)

    I have never used coconut flour or protein powder, but I now foresee an introduction to both. This recipe looks incredibly amazing and scrumptious and like it might assist me with my own protein under-consumption tendencies!

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    • I still like my raw brownies far better, but these do in a pinch ;) The Sunwarrior is pretty expensive for us here in Australia, but it doesn’t taste awful and is vegan, so that’s a plus! :P

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    • Yes and no. In this, you can’t taste much in the way of coconut, but in other applications there’s a subtle hint of coconut. I’d say it depends whether you allow the coconut flour to be the star or not?

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  20. You adorable creature!! Yes yes, I do think a microwave is the devil’s plaything! Followed closely by sugar and grains!
    Do you make your own sunflower seed butter? The only Australian brand I know of contains sugar.
    I’ve seen that white chocolate peanut butter on iherb. It looks deliciously evil!

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    • Teehee, I know you must truly like me when you call me adorable despite the fact that I continuous flaunt sugar all over this blog ;) No, I haven’t yet made my own sunflower butter, I use the Eskal one with sugar. I just bought the crunchy kind, which I’ve loved before, but this one has a vague taste of petrol and it’s weirding me out…

      P.S. You can also get that peanut butter via USA foods. It can’t be evil when it’s vegan, right? :P

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    • Yay! You do have to like the flavour of your protein powder to like these, though microwaving them cuts down on the strength of the powder’s flavour a little too :)

      P.S. Toby is who I was referring to above when I said I knew someone who managed to get Sunwarrior through iHerb’s shipping restrictions :P

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  22. Normal is highly over-rated. That said, any recipe that starts with “cookie dough” should be the norm in my opinion! I think I’d still go with raw (not a fan of melty choc chips), but really, had never thought about baking protein bites!

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    • How funny! I didn’t like them as much non-warmed up because, to me, the chocolate chips didn’t feel incorporated that way, more like some random chocolate had accidentally fallen into my creation :P Whereas the melting made it feel more cohesive! But that’s perhaps because I almost never eat chocolate in any way but straight-up…

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    • Thank you Tammy! I have at least four raw creations I’ve made in the past few months, though I’ve been keeping some with the vague idea of making an e-Book. Probably never going to happen though! :P

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    • Oh how fantastic! I think Mama Pea used almond butter but no coconut flour, so it’s interesting how many different versions are out there! I’ll have to track down your recipe to try :)

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  31. Now here is a way in which we are very different: I survive many days on nothing but protein (usually in the form of cheese, cold cuts, or nuts) and sugar (often in the form of chocolate), and my body cries out for Vegetables! Vegetables, please!

    Here’s a story to which you might relate though: when we were kids, for some reason my mom thought my brother and I might not be getting enough protein (I do recall I didn’t much like meat, though this is almost certainly because it was always overcooked, but still thought vegetarians were lucky, except for the whole eating more vegetables part – ah, the logic of childhood) so she bought us these Mighty Mouse chewable protein pills. They were vanilla flavored and kind of chalky – it was kind of like eating the inside of a malted milk ball. We ADORED them. In fact, I think the whole plan sort of backfired, because we loved them so much, and asked for them all the time, at which point my mom realized we should probably not be getting our protein in what was essentially candy form. Good times.

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    • Nuts, cheese, and sugar I could definitely do for extended periods of time :)

      Bahahaha! Oh Camille, I love that story! All your mum was trying to do was feed you well, and she accidentally got you addicted to crack protein candy. It must be hard to be a mother sometimes. ;)

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  33. I skipped the coconut flour and used maple syrup and pb but these were still great. Thanks for sharing. Btw, I just blogged my adaption.

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