Growing up I loved Heath bars.
In candy bar form
In Blizzard form
One summer I think I slurped down my weight in Heath Bar Blizzards, horrible dairy intolerance reactions and all. It was worth it.
But since I don’t plan to raid Dairy Queen for a Heath Bar Blizzard anytime soon, and because I love cookie dough, I came up with today’s recipe which satisfied my toffee cravings. I think it will do the same for you. C’mon, cookie dough, chocolate and toffee. What’s not to love?
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No Bake Toffee & Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites
Ingredients:
2/3 c cashews (unsalted, and raw if possible)
1/3 c dry oats
3 tbsp agave or maple syrup (or combination)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 c chocolate chips
1/4 c toffee bits
Yields: approximately 16-18 bites
Directions:
First add cashews and oats to Vita-Mix or food processor and grind into a fine powder. Then, add the agave and vanilla extract and blend again. Finally, add the chocolate chips and toffee bits and either stir in by hand or barely blend/pulse until incorporated. Retain some texture.
Remove the dough and form into cookie bites. If dough is soft or hard to work with, refrigerate/freeze for 20 minutes prior to forming into bites.
Optional Ideas:
After the bites are formed, drizzle them with dark or white chocolate by melting 1/4 c dark/white chocolate. With a spoon, drizzle chocolate over the top of the bites (see here for an example) Or, dip each bite entirely into chocolate.
Dust finished bites with cocoa or carob powder.
Add dried coconut flakes to each ball by rolling them in coconut at the end, or adding 1/4 c dried coconut to the dough. Increase agave/maple slightly if dough is too dry.
Store the dough bites in refrigerator or freezer.
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Pictures of the Process:
Cashews + Oats. Grind into powder
Add agave/maple and vanilla extract to the cashew/oat powder and blend again.
Dough. You will know when your dough is the right consistency because it just looks like it’s going to stick together without being too wet or too crumbly.
Add Chocolate Chips + Toffee Bits and do a light and quick blend or hand stir. Don’t pulverize the goodies.
Dough is ready
Form into bites
And Enjoy!
The little crunchy toffee bits combined with the dark chocolate chips are perfect in the chewy, raw, doughy bites.
When is cookie dough ever a bad thing?
Never.
Don’t forget to check out my previous Cookie Dough recipe for No-Bake White Chocolate & Mango Cookie Dough Bites
And there’s also my Dessert Balls & Bites Post Showing about 20 of my Balls & Bites Recipes from Raw Vegan Donut Holes to Chocolate Covered Oreo Balls.
Including my original Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough from over 18 months ago, which is where today’s recipe was derived from.
From my last post about Sandwiches & ‘Shrooms, as predicted mushrooms are a love ’em or hate ’em food. But I was surprised to hear how many of you really love your shrooms!
And glad you liked my creative twist on “bread” sandwiches. Gotta think outside of the gluten box.
Questions:
1. Best thing you ate or did over the weekend?
These Toffee Cookie Dough Bites rank right up there but I got together with a friend and it was great. Stay tuned.
2. Do you like Heath Bars or Toffee?
Yes, clearly!
3. Favorite mainstream candy bar?
If you rattle off some favorites, I can put them into dessert recipes. Not necessarily just into raw dough bites, but into other cooked recipes like brownies or cookies, too. I am thinking Butterfingers, Snickers, Mounds Bars, Laffy Taffy even. What should I try next?
P.S. If you’re just catching up on posts since Friday, here are mine:
Oh my gosh, SO good! I lovedddd Blizzards back in the day. I think Butterfinger Blizzards are next – those were my favorites!
oh i love toffee!!! THESE babies LOOK DANG GOOD!! and so nicely presented :D
please do keep on putting up more info!
i was wondering how can i get one to try out as well
YES YES YES!!! thank you so much for posting this! haha, such a WONDERFUL idea! :)
<3333 heath bars!
Mmm…you always have the best recipes:) My fam still raves over the choc covered vegan oreos…I want to try this one asap!
glad your family is still raving :) better than ranting. lol
These look awesome I LOVE anything that tastes like cookie dough!
I’m not sure I’ve had a Heath bar. Crazy, I know. I do like toffee, though, and those dough balls look amazing! I’d love it if you could make Milky Way or Butterfinger dough balls.
I love your cake stand/cookie dough bite plate! :)
I just bought a big bag of cashews so I’ll have to try these out!
ps. Made your spring rolls with peanut sauce….BOMB!
thanks for LMK about the spring rolls with peanut sauce.
Love Heath bars. And seriously, when is cookie dough ever a bad thing!? Well, unless you’re using raw eggs and you’ve got a sour one, but really, other than that, never. How about adding these to some coconut ice cream. I think that would be heavenly. Great recipe!
I’m not a huge Heath bar fan, although I love toffee. These balls look great — and they look super adorable on your new plate with the ribbon!
My favorite mainstream candy bar would have to be Snickers. I just love those!
Heath Blizzard was my first blizzard and will forever be a fond memory! I used to love 3Muskateers. I am a fan of nougat!
Yum, These all look delicious. I need to make myself some ASAP!
Best thing I ate this weekend, Bri & Wild Mushroom pizza.
I love toffee. Has anyone ever hear the term Brickle Bit? Thats what we called it in my house growing up. My fiance though I made it up.
And my favorite candy bar is 3 Musketeers.
Those look fantastic! I love that raw cookie desserts are just like eating cookie dough! I do like toffee, but only every once in a while. I’m not so much a chocolate girl, so wasn’t ever a big fan of the bars. I like the gross sugary candies :)
Have you ever made haystack candy?! I feel like you’d love it…you melt butterscotch chips, stir in the crunchy chow-mein noodles and Heath bar bits, then drop them in little piles on wax paper. Ohmygoshsogood. Reminds me that I haven’t made them in WAY too long!!
Favorite mainstream candy bars are Hershey’s and Reese’s. Simple for me!!