The Best Cookie Dough Smoothie Bowl: Healthy and Delicious

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If you know me, you know I love a good breakfast. If you know my boyfriend, you know he loves a good chocolate chip cookie. This Cookie Dough Smoothie Bowl is truly the best of both worlds. If you wake up craving something sweeter for breakfast, this is the perfect smoothie recipe to make that will taste like a sweet treat but won’t leave you feeling hungry. You can have your cookie and eat it too!

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What Makes This Smoothie Bowl So Good?

Now you’d think that a cookie dough smoothie bowl would be full of added sugar. That’s not the case with this recipe! This bowl contains healthy fats from the nut butter and protein from the protein powder and the chickpeas! The sweetness come from the banana, so you get the sweet cookie flavor without adding straight sugar to the blender.

I love a good smoothie in the morning, especially on a warm spring or summer day. After making them for years, I know a few tips and tricks to making them both tasty and nourishing. Many people think that a good smoothie is made up of fruit and milk, and that’s it. While that doesn’t sound like a bad thing to have on a hot day, I like to think we can make it better.

ingredients for a smoothie next to a blender on the counter

Why You Should Add Fat and Protein To Your Smoothie.

If you’ve ever had an all-fruit smoothie before, you might know how it feels to drink one and then feel a big energy crash afterwards. You might have heard of the phrase “naked carbs” before, and that’s basically what an all-fruit smoothie is. From a health standpoint, you’re going to be better off having a smoothie that will keep you full and satisfied rather than leave you feeling drained and hungry an hour after you finish it. Adding a fat source such as avocado, nut butter, hemp seeds, or coconut milk to your smoothies helps your body absorb the vitamins and nutrients.

Fats can also give your smoothie a creamy texture, which helps if you don’t want your smoothie to taste too watery or icy. The fat source we are using in this recipe is your nut butter of choice. I’ve made this recipe using peanut butter and cashew butter before and both options tasted great! The peanut butter gave it more of a PB chocolate chip cookie dough feel, so if you want more of a classic cookie dough, I’d recommend using a more neutral nut butter like almond or cashew.

Protein is also a key component in a satiating smoothie! In this recipe, I recommend using a vanilla-flavored protein powder. If you don’t have vanilla protein on hand, you can use chocolate, peanut butter, or any other flavor you like. In my opinion, the vanilla protein makes it taste more like cookie dough!

Two brands I love for protein powder are Sprout Living and Ritual. Both of these options have simple ingredients, no weird gums or fillers, and a full amino acid profile. They check all of my boxes to make them Sustainable Kay-approved in terms of ingredients and sustainability initiatives. Stay tuned for a blog post on ingredients for making the perfect smoothie where I’ll talk about this more!

girl in white tank top drinking a berry smoothie
me with my Cherry Berry Cake Smoothie (recipe coming soon!)

This recipe makes one serving, so feel free to double or triple the ingredients if you’re feeding multiple people, or if you want to make a larger batch for yourself to have the next day.

Products used in this recipe:
  • Ninja Blender – I’m not kidding when I say that I could not live without this blender! Great for blending smoothies and even making warm soup and sauces with the heat feature. It’s much more affordable than a Vitamix which is nice too.
  • Sprout Living Epic Protein – This is my favorite plant protein powder with minimal ingredients. I love both the chocolate and vanilla flavors.

Cookie Dough Smoothie Bowl

Craving a dessert for breakfast? This creamy cookie inspired smoothie bowl will fix your sweet tooth, while also providing protein and healthy fats to keep you full!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 1

Ingredients
  

For the Bowl

  • 1 cup milk I used almond milk, but any milk should do
  • 1/4 cup rolled oats
  • 1/3 cup chickpeas rinsed well, frozen preferred, can omit and add more oats instead
  • 1 large banana frozen
  • 2 scoops vanilla protein I use Sprout Living Epic Vanilla, linked below
  • 1-2 tbsp nut butter almond, cashew, or sunflower
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 tsp maca powder optional
  • 1 tbsp dark chocolate chips
  • 1 tbsp cacao nibs optional, for extra chocolate crunch

Toppings

  • sprinkle of oats
  • chocolate chips or cacao nibs
  • chocolate sauce

Instructions
 

  • Add all ingredients to a high speed blender (the one I use and love is linked above) and blendddd until ingredients are well combined.
  • Pour smoothie into a bowl (or glass if you prefer to drink it). Add any toppings you like.
  • Serve and enjoy! That's it! Super easy and so so good.

Notes

For more of a chocolate peanut butter cookie flavor, use peanut butter. A mild nut butter like cashew or almond will give the smoothie that classic chocolate chip cookie dough flavor. 
You can always play with the thickness of the smoothie by adding more or less milk. 
The toppings certainly aren’t necessary, but they make the smoothie bowl more fun to eat!
Keyword breakfast, plant based, smoothie

This smoothie bowl can be served for breakfast, or even as a mid-day snack or dessert. I love how this satisfies that sweet tooth, but is still so nourishing, and much better for blood sugar balance than eating an actual bowl of cookie dough. The healthy fats from the nut butter and the protein from the frozen chickpeas and protein powder really help make this more of a meal that can keep you full.

Give this Cookie Dough Smoothie Bowl a try and you might just find a new favorite way to eat breakfast! Let me know what you think in the comments (:

~ Kayla

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