These quick and easy Sweet Potato No Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies are naturally sweetened with just dates and sweet potato and have an amazingly addicting creamy cookie dough texture! Gluten free, grain free, Paleo and Vegan.
These no bake cookies are officially a thing now, there is no turning back. Isn’t it nice to have a quick, easy snack/dessert recipe that you know will turn out every single time you make it? No “4th time’s the charm” or dedicating an entire week to recipe testing.
Of course, it’s totally necessary to dive into that sort of craziness with some recipes (sweet potato bread) but if all of them were that way, well, people might stop cooking/baking – or even eating – altogether (okay, not the eating part.)
Luckily, we have foods like dates – which above anything else deserve the title of “nature’s candy”, don’t you think? I love using dates as the base for all the no bake cookies I make since they seem to give them a touch of caramel flavor which I just can’t replicated using maple syrup or honey.
With just a whirl of my food processor (hmm, or maybe a few whirls) you go from a a few whole-food ingredients that don’t resemble cookies at all, to a thick, addicting cookie dough. Heck-to-the-YUM! Perfect to roll into balls or shape into cookies, and INDULGE in, knowing that what you’re eating is actually really good for you.
The cookie dough itself here is completely refined sugar free – you just have dates, sweet potato, vanilla, cinnamon and coconut flour. I used Enjoy Life brand mini chocolate chips – which have been my favorite for YEARS as a dairy and soy free option to add to all my desserts.
The mini chips are a bit sweeter (my kids’ favorite, of course), but if you prefer dark chocolate chips they also make these standard size dark chocolate morsels which show up in tons of my recipes too. Or in my dessert bowl almost every night lately…they’re a hard habit to kick 🙂
The only thing I don’t like about making no bake cookies is that out of all my recipes, they seem to disappear the fastest. Obviously I’m saying this to let you know they’re THAT yummy, but, seriously, maybe I need to start doubling the batches because it legitimately becomes a fight over who had the most, who gets the last one, who had the biggest one, etc. Now you’re gonna have to make them to see for yourself. Let’s go!
Sweet Potato No Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies {Paleo & Vegan}
Sweet Potato No Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies {Paleo & Vegan}
Ingredients
- 1 cup dates pitted and softened*
- 1/3 cup creamy almond or cashew butter - I used a combination based on what I had!
- 1/2 cup cooked and mashed or pureed sweet potato you can use canned if you prefer
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- pinch salt
- 7-8 Tbsp organic coconut flour**
- 1/3 cup Enjoy Life mini chocolate chips or your favorite brand
Instructions
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Add your dates to the bowl of a food processor and process on high until a paste forms (pulse as needed)
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When the dates form a paste, add the mashed sweet potato, nut butter, vanilla, cinnamon and process until blended.
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Stir in 7 Tbsp of the coconut flour until a thick dough forms, then chill the dough in the freezer for 20 minutes
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Remove from freezer, and if the dough is still very sticky, stir in 1/2-1 Tbsp more of the coconut flour.
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Lastly, stir in the mini chocolate chips, then roll the dough into balls or cookie shapes. They will have a cookie dough-like texture and are best stored in the refrigerator. Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
*If your dates are dry, microwave them in a bowl with waterer 30 second, then drain before adding
**You will slowly add the final Tbsp at the end, after chilling, if the dough is too sticky
What I Used to Make My Sweet Potato No Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies:
Want more healthy no bake Paleo & Vegan cookie recipes? Try one of these!
Banana Chocolate Chip No Bake Cookies
Chocolate Coconut Butter No Bake Cookies
Apple Cinnamon No Bake Cookies
No Bake Paleo & Vegan cookies and snack bites on the web:
Lemon Pistachio Shortbread Cookie Bites
Healthy No Bake White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
Tell Me!
What snacks disappear at your house the fastest? Aside from no bake cookies, it’s strawberries over here.
Do you use your food processor much? I have to say, I use mine the most for cookies like these 🙂
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These sound delicious. I can’t believe they’re no bake!
These look great! Dates are seriously magical when it comes to easy desserts. Love the addition of sweet potato!
Yes they totally are! Thanks!
I might be missing something, but does the nut butter go in during step #2?
Yes! That was a typo on my part, just fixed it, thanks 🙂
Wow! So many riches for the senses. Thanks for sharing!
I looked for a recipe using sweet potato and dates and this checked both of those boxes. They are very moist and delicious. I stored them for work in the same container as some peanuts and the peanuts got stuck to them, it ended up being a great combination!
Absolutely delicious. While I could eat a bunch in one sitting, I found having only one satisfied my dessert needs. I didn’t have dates handy so I used figs and it tasted great. The only drawback to that was the constant crunch of the little seeds.
I’ll definitely make them again.
Wow!! That’s really great. I and my family members like sweet potato recipes very much! I will try by your idea since I am currently quite busy with having https://flirtymania.com/ around the world. I think my family members will enjoy this recipe idea!
There cookies are so nice!
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