Name: Healthy Nutella No Bake Cookies
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 1 1/3 cup oats; 3 Tbsp shredded coconut; 2 Tbsp mini chocolate chips; 1/4 cup nutella; 1/4 cup honey; 1 tsp vanilla

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It has been so hot and sticky lately and I was trying not to have to turn the oven on, so no-bake cookies seemed the way to go! 🙂 These nutella cookies are scrumptious, I’ll admit it’s hard to eat just one but I feel more satisfied after 2 of these rather than 2 store bought cookies 😉 Super easy to make and only 3 Points each.

One thing to say up front, so nobody feels misled. These are the rolled and chilled kind of Nutella no bake cookies, not the boiled kind. There is no butter, no granulated sugar and no saucepan of cocoa bubbling on the stove. It is oats, shredded coconut, mini chocolate chips, Nutella, honey and vanilla, stirred in one bowl, chilled, and rolled into balls. If you have made energy balls before, you know the drill. If you want the classic fudgy drop cookie, this is not that. If you want a Nutella cookie you can keep in the fridge and grab with your coffee, keep reading.

healthy Nutella no bake cookies piled in a square white bowl, rolled balls of oats and coconut studded with mini chocolate chips

Another no oven treat: my Trail Mix Peanut Butter Oatmeal Balls, 1 point each 🙂

Why you’ll love these no bake Nutella oatmeal cookies

No oven, no stove. One bowl and a spoon. The fridge does the only “cooking” there is.
Six ingredients you probably have. Oats, coconut, mini chips, Nutella, honey, vanilla. That is the whole list.
Honey does the sweetening. A quarter cup for 18 cookies, plus what is already in the Nutella. No sugar bowl, no butter.
Real Nutella, real chocolate. A quarter cup of Nutella goes a long way once the oats soak it up, and the mini chips put chocolate in every bite.
They keep. A batch in the fridge covers a week of after-dinner sweet tooth at 3 Points a cookie.

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Chill Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Servings: 18 cookies

Serving Size: 1 cookie

3 WW Points Per Serving. You can view the recipe on the WW App here. (WW login required.)

Ingredients

1 1/3 cup oats
3 Tbsp shredded coconut
2 Tbsp mini chocolate chips
1/4 cup Nutella
1/4 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla

Old fashioned rolled oats are what you see in the photos, and they give the cookies that chewy, granola bar bite. Quick oats work too and hold together a little tighter, with a softer texture. Steel cut oats will not work here; they stay hard without cooking.

Mini chocolate chips matter more than you would think. Two tablespoons of minis spreads through all 18 cookies. The same two tablespoons of regular chips lands in maybe half of them.

The Nutella and honey are the glue. There is no butter in these, so the stickiness of that pair is what holds every ball together. Measure them honestly. If the mixture looks dry after mixing, it usually needs a firmer stir rather than more of either.

How to make Nutella no bake cookies

Mix the dry ingredients. In a bowl, stir together the oats, shredded coconut and mini chocolate chips.

oats, shredded coconut and mini chocolate chips layered in a glass mixing bowl before the Nutella and honey go in

Add the wet ingredients. Stir in the honey, vanilla and Nutella. Keep going until every oat is coated and there are no pale streaks left. The mixture gets stiff, which is what you want.

oat and coconut mixture stirred through with Nutella and honey in a glass bowl, ready to chill

Chill. Cover the bowl and put it in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. This firms up the Nutella so the balls hold their shape when you roll them.

Roll. Using your hands, roll the mixture into 18 balls. Lightly wet your hands if it starts sticking to you.

Store in the fridge. They set firmer as they sit, and they are best cold.

Tips and substitutions

Do not skip the chill. Warm Nutella is loose and the balls fall apart in your hands. Thirty minutes is the minimum; longer is fine.
Wet hands, not floured hands. A little water on your palms stops the sticking without changing the cookie. Re-wet every few balls.
Scoop first, then roll. A tablespoon measure or a small cookie scoop gets you 18 even cookies, which is what keeps the 3 Points honest.
Swap the coconut. Not a coconut fan? Use the same amount of extra oats, or chopped nuts if you do not mind the points moving.
Make them Nutella energy balls. A spoonful of chia or ground flax stirred in with the oats turns these into a proper mid-morning snack.
Any swap changes the points. Run your version through the app before you count it.

hand holding up one Nutella no bake cookie to show the oats and mini chocolate chips, with the rest of the batch in a white dish behind

Storing

Keep them in an airtight container in the fridge, where they are good for about a week. They soften if they sit out, so serve them straight from the cold. For longer, freeze them in a single layer, then bag them; they thaw in a few minutes on the counter.

close up of rolled Nutella no bake oatmeal cookies stacked in a white dish, mini chocolate chips showing through the oats

No bake Nutella balls like these are what I reach for when I want something chocolatey and do not want to heat up the kitchen. If you are after more sweet things at this end of the points scale, our dessert recipes have plenty.

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