These little bites reproduce the soft, sweet texture of cookie dough, with no baking and no eggs, thanks to homemade dehydrated banana slices. The walnuts, soaked then dehydrated, bring crunch and better digestibility, while a touch of cinnamon and nutmeg warms the whole thing up. Once the dough comes together, you simply shape it into small flat cookies or into balls, as you prefer. A simple treat that mostly asks for a little planning ahead for the dehydrating.
Raw cookie dough bites with banana and walnuts
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Ingredients
- 240 g walnuts, soaked and dehydrated
- 1 pinch of Himalayan salt (or the equivalent of 1 tablespoon - 15 ml - of seawater)
- 1 pinch of cinnamon
- 1 pinch of nutmeg
- 135 g homemade dehydrated banana slices, packed
- 1 tablespoon honey
Method
- Put the walnuts, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg in a food processor fitted with the S blade and blend to a coarse meal.
- Add the dehydrated banana slices and blend until they are fully incorporated.
- Add the honey and keep blending until you reach a dough-like consistency.
- Shape into small flat cookies or into balls, as you prefer.
Tip
For better digestion, soak the walnuts for 6 to 8 hours, rinse them, then dehydrate at 57 °C for 45 minutes before dropping to 40 °C until completely dry (12 to 24 hours); for the banana slices, allow 18 to 24 hours of dehydrating. If the dough stays crumbly, add one more dried banana slice rather than liquid, which would make it sticky. The bites keep for a week in the fridge in an airtight box.
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FAQ: your questions about the raw cookie dough bites
What is a healthy raw cookie dough recipe?
A healthy cookie dough rests on three elements: a nut blended to replace flour and butter, a dried fruit for sugar and binding, and a warm spice for flavour. Here those are walnuts, dried banana and the cinnamon-nutmeg pairing. No raw egg is involved, and raw flour, which is not advisable as it is, is simply absent. The honey comes in right at the end, to bind the dough.
What is the recipe for cookie dough you can actually eat raw?
The whole difference lies in what is taken out: no egg and no raw wheat flour, the two ingredients that make a classic cookie dough unsuitable to eat raw. The base then becomes a mixture of ground nuts and dried fruit, safe to eat by the spoonful. This recipe gives the simplest version: blend the walnuts to a coarse meal, add the dried banana, then the honey until the dough holds together between your fingers.
What are the tips for a successful homemade cookie dough?
The most useful habit is to blend in stages rather than all at once: the nuts first, on their own, then the dried fruit, then the liquid. That way you keep control of the texture and avoid turning the nuts into butter. Second habit: let the dough rest for 15 minutes in the cold before shaping, it sticks far less to your fingers. Finally, taste before adding honey, as dried banana already sweetens a great deal.
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