Cookie Dough Cookies

LaraBars were on sale the other day. I hadn’t eaten one of those things in years, so I bought a few. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, amongst other flavors. Besides the fact that the bar was about the length of my pinky finger, the flavor was so amazingly disappointing. It tasted so “healthy”…and nothing like the cookie dough flavor Lara promised. Bleh.
So I figured I could make my own version of the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Lara Bar, switching out the mass of nuts & dates for coconut butter.
Yield: Six 2½ inch cookies + scraps
Ingredients
- 1 (7 oz) package Unsweetened Let’s Do Organic Creamed Coconut*
- 1/3 cup coconut sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup chocolate chips
Method
In a small sauce pot, combine creamed coconut, sugar, vanilla and salt over medium heat. Whisk until the sugar has dissolved and the creamed coconut has melted, about 3 minutes or so. The mixture may seem a little bit sandy.
Get out an 8×8 baking dish. Dump the melted coconut/sugar mixture into the pan. Let it cool a bit, and then use your hands to press the mixture flat into the dish. The dough will only take up about 3/4 of the baking dish. Scatter the chocolate chips on top and press them into the dough with your hands.
Place in the refrigerator to cool and then use a cookie cutter, or a knife, to cut into desired shapes.
*I like to use this in lieu of coconut butter out of a jar because the package has some magic ratio perfectly measured out (see pic below). Just using coconut butter straight out of a jar may turn things into a crumbly mess.


























I love that you guys are using creamed coconut so much. It’s so much cheaper than buying it out of a jar, and I have loads of it.
Creamed coconut is amazing stuff – thanks for the recipe idea. I am making it tonight!
I have never used creamed coconut. I do not have an aversion to raw grass-fed dairy products and have often wondered what the substitute or equal to creamed coconut would be…butter?
the butter part of coconut butter refers to the fact that it’s ground up coconut…like almond butter, peanut butter. it doesn’t have anything to do with actual ‘i came from a cow’ butter.
Could you use this?
http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/coconut_cream_concentrate.htm
maybe yes….i don’t really know. i just REALLY love the fact that the stuff pictured above is already pre-packaged and pre-portioned with what i assume is coconut oil and coconut meat. just using the butter, you probably won’t come across the same consistency.
These are GOOD–pretty close to authentic cookie dough flavour! I find that they’re better when they’re smaller–cut into 12 or 16 portions, they’re a perfect little dose of indulgence!
Next time (AKA: maybe tonight), I’m going to try working the chocolate through the “dough”, and drizzling melted chocolate on top…
thanks sara!
yeah, i agree…i made them a bit on the thick side.
Finally made these – they are AWESOME!
*shopping for a case of creamed coconut*
This looks so amazing. I sent hubby to WF and he got the creamed coconut, but could not locate the sugar. Could you use regular sugar? I’m dying to make this tonight.
These looks fantastic. I really have to use coconut more. I love how it just makes six–that’s a non-dangerous amount!
These were fantastic! I like the texture the creamed coconut adds. One this I changed was the creamed coconut only came in 5.5oz packages so I top it up with 1.5 oz of butter. It was awesome.