Ever since I went to Cookie Do in New York City and had their vegan and gluten-free Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, I’ve been dying to recreate it in my kitchen! Their cookie dough was ABSURDLY good, but also absurdly unhealthy, ha!
When I was at Do recently, I noticed that there were several gluten-free flavors, but only one gluten-free and vegan flavor. When I asked why all flavors of GF dough weren’t vegan, I was told the others contained butter! So first and foremost I decided that a dairy-free/vegan butter would be one of the main ingredients in my NOBREAD dough. Introducing Earth Balance, my go-to dairy-free butter!
Earth Balance was founded in 1998, and it’s introduction gave vegans and dairy-free folk faith that they would be able to enjoy ‘butter’ again. EB has quickly become the US’s most popular vegan buttery spread, and the butter family has grown outside of their Original flavor and now includes Soy-free, Organic Whipped, Olive Oil, Omega 3, and Organic Coconut Spread. Thus far, I’ve tried all except the Omega-3 and Organic Coconut Spread, but given I am a Coconut-addict I know it’ll be just days before I give the Coconut spread a try!
Peanut Butter Coconut Cookie Dough Balls
What You Will Need:
1/4 Cup Peanut Butter
1/4 Cup (4T) Earth Balance DF/Vegan Whipped Butter (Melted)
1/2 Cup coconut Flour
1/4 Cup Coconut Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla
Handful Chocolate Chips
What You Will Do:
In a large bowl, mix peanut butter, melted Earth Balance, and vanilla.
In a small bowl, combine coconut flour and coconut sugar.
Add your dry ingredients into the bowl of wet ingredients and combine.
Add however many chocolate chips you desire and fold!
Note: The batter will crumble. Don’t be alarmed. Time to get messy.
With your hands, scoop out batter and create small dough balls.
Add your balls to a tray lined with parchment paper. You should be able to make ~12 balls.
Place in the refrigerator so the dough comes together. Chill for 20 minutes and serve!
The dough balls will stay good in your refrigerator for a week or so, and then (if there are any left) move them to the freezer!
Earth Balance vegan butters have been HUGE not only for my recipes, but also in my day-to day life. I’m a toasted (gluten-free) bagel and croissant kind of girl, but I need my DF butter to make my meal complete and Earth Balance spreads absolutely do the trick.
To read more about Earth Balance, visit their website here!
Looks delicious, can’t wait to try it !