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WW Recipe of the Day: No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Balls
Looking for a simple sweet treat you can feel good about indulging in this holiday season?
These no-bake treats are super-simple to make and taste a lot like peanut butter cookie dough.
But they’re hiding a secret healthy ingredient: pureed chickpeas (aka Garbanzo beans).
I must admit it sounds a little strange to make a sweet, peanut buttery cookie dough treat with chickpeas, but you really cannot taste them.
And they provide a wonderful creamy texture with minimal calories.
I was pleasantly surprised and can imagine whipping up a quick batch any time I have a peanut butter cookie craving, but don’t feel like baking cookies.
You only need about 15 minutes to get them ready, but the dough will need to chill for about an hour – so be sure to plan ahead.
How Many Calories and WW Points in Peanut Buttery No-Bake Cookie Dough Balls?
According to my calculations, each individual bite only has about 32 calories.
To see your WW Points for this recipe, track it in the WW App!
(You must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.)
1 SmartPoints (Green plan)
1 SmartPoints (Blue plan)
1 SmartPoints (Purple plan)
1 PointsPlus (Old plan)
While I love this combination with peanut butter and peanut butter chips, I think I’ll make them next time by substituting in mini chocolate chips. Then I’ll have some no-bake peanut buttery chocolate chip cookie dough balls 🙂
If you like these no-bake peanut butter cookie dough balls, be sure to check out some of my other Weight Watchers friendly recipes for sweets including WW No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares, No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Parfaits, No-Bake “Brownies”, No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies and Easy Baked S’mores Bites
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No-Bake Peanut Buttery Cookie Dough Balls Recipe
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained
- 3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- 1/3 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon low-fat cream cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons peanut butter chips
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
Instructions
- Add chickpeas, peanut butter, brown sugar, low-fat cream cheese, vanilla, salt and baking soda to you food processor (affiliate link) and process until smooth and creamy.
- Add flour along with peanut butter chips and pulse until thoroughly combined.
- Refrigerate dough at least 1 hour, until well chilled.
- When ready to roll cookie dough balls, sift together cocoa powder and powdered sugar in a small bowl (affiliate link) and set aside half the mixture.
- Scoop dough with a melon baller and gently roll into a firm, small ball. Roll ball in half the cocoa powder and powdered sugar mixture until evenly coated.
- Continue rolling balls with remaining dough.
- Chill until ready to serve.
- Before serving, dust with remaining cocoa and powdered sugar mixture.
Notes
(Must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.) 1 SmartPoints (Green plan) 1 SmartPoints (Blue plan) 1 SmartPoints (Purple plan) 1 PointsPlus (Old plan) You only need about 15 minutes to get them ready, but the dough will need to chill for about an hour – so be sure to plan ahead.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Source: Weight Watchers Magazine Nov/Dec 2014
Watch how to make healthy no-bake peanut butter energy bites with chocolate chips:
Can I make these using Powdered PB? Please You may answer via my email if you wish, . Thank you.
Hi Gene, I haven’t tried them with powdered peanut butter. If you do, would love to know how they turn out for you. ~Martha
I have seen this recipe on the weight watchers site as well, and I’m very upset. There is no way that the small amount of ingredients here makes 36 melon ball sized bites! I doubled the recipe and still only got 24 bites using my smallest melon Baller. That means the points per bite are dramatically higher than misrepresented here.
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I wish for good health so that I can continue to work out, I wish for someone to follow me around and slap the chips and cookies out of my hand, I wish for…oh, you just asked for one right?! oops 🙂
I wish I could have the ability to eat healthier – you know just the ability to look the other way instead of indulging.
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