Shakeology is a tasty way to get a lot of nutritional benefits without having to eat 3,000 vegetables. Although I liked it and felt it calmed my chocolate cravings a little bit, I didn't feel overwhelmingly full of health and well-being like everyone else had claimed.
Maybe it's just me? And at the high price tag, I can't really justify buying it once a month at this time in my life. If Shakeology helped you in some profound way with your health or weight loss, that's excellent. I kind of envy you.
The insert that came with my bag of chocolate Shakeology said to drink it every day. It's hard enough that I have to remember to put on makeup every day--remembering to make a shake every morning (the preferred time for Shakeology) wasn't always in the cards for me. I did make an attempt to mix up a scoop of Shakeology with some other ingredients to make a palatable shake for breakfast.
On the other side of the insert was a calendar of different recipes to mix with chocolate Shakeology. Since I am not a fan of banana (like, at all), that pretty much narrowed down my options to about 7 recipes to mix chocolate Shakeology with rather than 30. It's a tough time being in the banana haters club. All those healthy "ice creams" with frozen bananas as the base sound so gross to me. So is life.
I wanted to try something a little different, and so to slightly copy my peanut butter energy bites, I turned my favorite Shakeology shake into a no bake cookie. I scoured Pinterest and came upon a pin that led me to Maegan Blinka's blog where I found the perfect Shakeology shake (for me, at least.)
It was chocolaty enough to keep me from wanting to shove chocolate chips down my face on the daily. #chocolateproblems. I also loved that it used Chocolate PB2, which I am already madly in love with/have in a ridiculous quantity. This shake isn't too far off from my chocolate peanut butter protein shake. I played around with some similar ingredients to make this shake more like a thick cookie that I could have as a snack instead of the usual Shakeology shake in the morning. Here's how it went down:
½ cup chocolate Shake-o. I know I'm a big fan of vanilla protein powder because you can mask it with so many different flavors, but this is a pretty solid chocolate choice.
½ cup old fashioned oats. I have these in the Costco sized box because I eat some form of oats basically once a day. It's a blessing and a curse.
½ teaspoon cinnamon, for that 'oatmeal cookie' flavor.
½ teaspoon vanilla extract. This bottle is covered in vanilla because I use it a lot and I'm a mess in the kitchen most days.
¼ cup creamy peanut butter. I'm sure you can substitute your favorite peanut butter/nut butter/some kind of thickening agent. Classic creamy peanut butter was my only option at the time, so I made it work. The peanut butter and our next ingredient will help bind the Shakeology cookies together.
¼ cup honey! Again, this measuring cup is covered in residual peanut butter because I hate dishes/love making messes. It's a shame, really. Not pictured is the addition of 2 tablespoons of water. This helps loosen up the mixture of the cookie "dough".
A few swift mixes and zippity doo-dah, no bake chocolate Shakeology peanut butter cookies. I'm not claiming it's the healthiest of chocolate snacks, but it sure beats eating raw cookie dough with a spoon watching Netflix. Not that I would know.
No Bake Chocolate Shakeology Cookies
A few swift mixes and BAM, no bake chocolate Shakeology peanut butter cookies. I'm not claiming it's the healthiest of chocolate snacks, but it sure beats eating raw cookie dough with a spoon watching Netflix.
Ingredients
- ½ cup old fashioned oats
- ½ cup chocolate Shakeology
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¼ cup honey
- 2 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a medium sized mixing bowl.
- Mix until a dark brown 'dough' forms.
- Using a tablespoon cookie scoop, scoop out equal portions of Shakeology cookie 'dough'.
- Roll scooped dough into balls and refrigerate for at least 20 minutes.
- Using a flat surface (such as the bottom of a glass) press each cookie dough ball into cookie shaped disks.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 10 Serving Size: 1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Calories: 97Unsaturated Fat: 0g
Have you tried Shakeology? What's your favorite shake/way to eat it? If you made these, let me know how they came out! Tag me @citrusanddelicious on Instagram or @citrusanddelish on Twitter, I'd love to see!
Looking for other healthy treat ideas?
No bake peanut butter energy bites
Chocolate peanut butter protein shake
Lightened up double chocolate muffins
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Judy
Just found this today. They are very yummy and fills the sweet snack void. Thank you!
Julie
How would you use powdered peanut butter in this recipe?
Thanks!
Jessica
Hi, Julie! The regular peanut butter is what does most of the binding of all the other ingredients, and I'm not sure powdered peanut butter would work as seamlessly as regular full fat PB.
Unfortunately, I don't have Shakeology on hand anymore and haven't tested the recipe with powdered peanut butter, but maybe you could mix up the powdered pb with water until it makes the 1/4 cup and see how it tastes substituted that way. Or maybe use one tablespoon of regular pb and 3 tablespoons of powdered peanut butter (1/4 cup = 4 tablespoons) to get that sticky consistency that binds the cookie ingredients together but with significantly less calories.
Let me know how it turns out if you try it with powdered peanut butter!!
Rayleigh
I’m looking for a recipe similar to this that I can use to replace my daily shake with. If I’m understanding correctly, 6.5 cookies would give a full scoop of Shakeology. Does that sound right to you? I guess that’s too many calories to have at once and as a daily breakfast. Do you have any recipes that might work better?
Jessica
Hi Rayleigh! I don't have any other Shakeology recipes on my site, but I think some of the recipes here sound really great: https://www.beachbodyondemand.com/blog/5-delicious-shakeology-dessert-recipes. I definitely would not recommend having these cookies as a daily breakfast, but rather as a snack or treat. I hope this helps a bit!
Lauren Stokes
Delicious!! Finally a recipe that came out looking just like the photos lol. I was thinking they were fairly small but they’re rich so they are perfect!! Thank you for an easy, healthy recipe!
Savanah
Hi! I was wondering if you have to make them with the oats for them to work correctly ??
Jessica
Hey Savanah, I think that the oats are kind of what "glues" the no bake cookies together. If you're looking for a gluten free or lower carb option, it might be worth trying to substitute it with something like almond flour for that binding effect. It would probably change the container counts and macros on these cookies and I haven't tested the recipe this way, but I just thought I would give an alternative that makes sense to me! Hope this helps 🙂
Alexandria
How do you store these? Have you ever tried freezing them for later? Thanks!
Jessica
Hey Alexandria! I have never attempted freezing them, but they store pretty well in the refrigerator because we would go through them pretty quickly. I think they should be okay in the freezer and then left in the refrigerator to thaw out before eating. Let me know if you test it out with one!
Alexandria
It worked out pretty well with freezing! You just have to keep them stored separately so they don't stick, of course.
It was tough to get them made, though. It ended up like cement so I needed to add a little liquid. All's well that ends well.
Jessica
That's good to hear, Alexandria! Thank you for testing it out for us 🙂 I freeze my no-bake energy bites as well and have to remember to store them flat or otherwise I end up with a clump of frozen-together energy bites.
Ally
I was wondering if you had the nutrition info on these. Thanks
Jessica
Hi, Ally! If you use myfitnesspal, you can copy the link to my recipe and paste it in under the recipes tab and it does a pretty good job of matching ingredients to give nutrition info.
Based on the ingredients I used, it's 10 cookies for the entire recipe, one cookie per serving. One cookie is 98 calories, 4g total fat per cookie, 14g carb per cookie, 4g protein per cookie. Hope this helps!
Jenni
Do you have an estimate on the calories per "cookie"?
Jessica
Hi Jenni! There's actually a feature to plug in this recipe's link (or most links that have recipe cards on their blogs) on My Fitness Pal and it pulls all the ingredients and serving sizes. According to that it comes out to about 102 calories per cookie and I figured 1/2 cup of shakeology was a scoop and a half. So if you use less the calories will be a little less as well. Hope this helps!
Amanda
Omg yummmmm! And so easy! How many cookies would equal one yellow and one red?
Jessica
Hey Amanda! There's only (1 yellow) in the whole batch and 1 1/2 scoops of Shakeology, so 1.5 red for all 10 cookies. I totally wouldn't recommend eating all 10 at once, lol. There's about one teaspoon of peanut butter and honey each per cookie so this would definitely be a treat 🙂 hope this helps a little!
Mir
Not much beats cookie dough and Netflix! But I hear you. This is a good compromise! Love the PB.