Protein Cookie Dough

This post is sponsored by Country Crock® Plant Butter. All opinions and recipes are our own. 

This cookie dough is super fluffy and creamy — plus, it’s the perfect protein-packed dessert to make for the start of the new year! It’s made with Country Crock® Plant Butter for a deliciously smooth and fluffy cookie dough. Country Crock® Plant Butter is gluten-free, vegan, and generates less than half the carbon footprint than the production of dairy butter — you never need to buy dairy butter again!

With the new year beginning, there’s no better time to make the switch to a vegan lifestyle or incorporate more plant-based foods into your diet. Country Crock® Plant Butter bakes and cooks like dairy butter, making the switch from dairy butter that much easier.

Ingredients

You need just eight simple ingredients for this gluten-free and vegan protein cookie dough:

Country Crock® Plant Butter: This is the creamy base of the cookie dough. It lends that classic cookie dough flavor and creates a perfectly fluffy dough. Country Crock® Plant Butter is a perfect 1:1 swap for butter in your dessert recipes.

Maple syrup: This natural sweetener adds a rich flavor and sweetness to the cookie dough. You can sub for agave if desired.

Non-dairy milk: This helps with the texture of this cookie dough. Use your favorite non-dairy milk.

Vanilla extract: This adds a rich flavor to the cookie dough and helps give it its classic flavor.

Gluten-free oat flour: This replaces all-purpose flour for a gluten-free alternative.

Vegan vanilla protein powder: This adds protein to the cookie dough. Use your favorite protein powder to ensure great flavor.

Salt: A touch of salt helps bring out important flavors in this cookie dough.

Non-dairy mini chocolate chips: A must for cookie dough!

How to make this cookie dough

This cookie dough is beyond easy to make.

1. Beat the butter until fluffy. Add the plant butter to a mixing bowl or bowl of a stand mixer and beat until fluffy.
2. Mix in the remaining ingredients. Add the maple syrup, milk, vanilla, oat flour, protein powder, and salt and beat again until smooth and creamy. Mix in the chocolate chips.
3. Enjoy! Grab a spoon and dig in! Place any leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge. We also love distributing this into single-serving containers for later.