Brownie Batter Dip

I’ve made this several times before and LOVE IT! It was inspired by your cookie dough dip, of course. Except I don’t use any nut butter, omit the milk, and double the cocoa powder for an extra thick and super chocolately treat. Yummmm… best eaten straight up with a spoon in my opinion!

Ooooh, yum!! My husband asked me to make ‘that yummy chickpea chocolate chip dip’ again, so I’ll surprise him with this even chocolatier version, and maybe top it with some fresh raspberries from the garden just for fun. 🙂 You’re genius!

Raw cookie dough and brownie batter = absolutely yes! I quite often only cook half of any cooke recipe I make, saving the rest of the batter for snack time! sometimes I’ll even freeze raw cookie dough – for some reason it tastes even better when frozen.

Ooooh – brownie batter with beans!! I’m in heaven 🙂

Love it! You should try it with black beans too! It’s also amazing! 🙂 I am so glad you experimented with making this one! I secretly had to try making it with black beans when I was craving brownies, it’s one that can get addicting.

Oh… My… CHOCOLATE! (“OMC”? Why does that sound better than the sometimes-annoying “OMG”? Maybe because it involves chocolate…) You’ve done it now. 🙂 I don’t know about you, Katie, but I think you should patent these “__ batter dips”. They’re just too awesome. Well, I love the chocolate chip cookie one, so I bet this one’ll be just as amazing.

Love eating the raw dough and batters when I bake! I seem to taste-test as I go for almost all recipes, though [unless it’s a cover + don’t-touch-until-it’s-fully-cooked type recipe]…

Who doesn’t like to eat the batter!! This looks so delicious! I wish the bean base didn’t do such a number on my stomach, though!

I love that you’re dipping chocolate in more chocolate. Only you, Katie…and that’s why I love your blog! Haha

Yum yum, this looks dangerously good! I’m totally guilty of eating batter when cooking.

HOLY YUM! I am in foodgasmic heaven!!!! Just made this, and it’s quite possibly the best thing I’ve eaten all year! I’d stay and tell you more about it, but I have to go eat some more!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 🙂

All I can say is…wow. You’ve outdone yourself again, Katie!! I can’t wait to try this 🙂

Haha, I’m lucky if batters and doughs make it to my oven!

I do! 🙂 And with vegan baking there is no risk for salmonella! Wahooo!

Katie, love love love the chocolate chip cookie dough dip! And I can’t wait to try the brownie batter. I’m on vacation, so I have to wait til I get back to my own kitchen. One thing-my dip came out very runny and didn’t look like the picture. It tasted great, but I’m not sure what I did wrong. Thanks for all the great food!

yummyyyy! we ran out of chickpeas because i kept making brownies LOL so i’m gonna use black beans

Oh, my. I might have to spring for this. In another life, I definitely made cookie dough a time or two just to eat the cookie dough… So bad. But soooo good. I can’t wait to whip this up and take a spoon to it. Though, I’m without food processor in my current digs! Hi, mom and dad… Just making some cookie dough with chickpeas. 😉

This recipe looks kind of like THE best thing ever. I can see this quickly replacing all my meals lol.

Soooo true about chocolates addictive properties. Didja know that when Naloxone (a drug) is administered, it takes away the high/feelings of pleasure that come w/ eating chocolate? It does the same with morphine. Basically chocolate is a drug haha.

mmmm looks yummy! I always eat the raw batter when I bake! That’s why I love 2 ingredient cupcakes. They never have eggs, so I can eat as much batter as my little heart desires 🙂

We always eat our raw dough 😉 Love it! Nothing beats it!

UM YUMMMMMMMMM CHOCOLATE = best idea everrrr

Hello!! I just noticed you started following me on Pinterest. I just found your blog from a post on Pinterest! i’m so excited to try your recipes!!!

I love to the batter. My favorite raw dough is Sugar cookies. I tried adding 1/3 cup of white choc chips. I also had a great idea of putting in Rum extract instead of vanilla!

I noticed in your lower calorie recipe version you put chick peas or white beans. Do the white beans affect the flavor any?

What kind of nut-butter do you use?? Would peanut butter or nutella work?

I think i’m gonna be bookmarking a lot of recipes tonight…another one I;m gonna have to try!

I am new to the dairy free world and have recently stummbled onto your blog. I have a severe allergy to dariy, but I feel like my baking and cooking could seriouly get boring now. I have seen another blog with recipes using beans in desserts… now I can’t wait to try it. This may be a stupid question, but what do you use

OMG how is this even possible!? Soooooo good!!! I’d ask you to marry me, but my boyfriend might oppose, and well, that’d just be awkward. 🙂

Even my 11 year old son LOVES it. I told him it was my dinner and he argued with me that it’s a dessert. I say it’s healthy.

I love all these dips and so do my kids!!

I was wondering…..have you tried making a coconut flavor using coconut butter instead of nut butter? Or a banana nut? Or Butterscotch? Or pumpkin pie?

Just wondering…..I’m thinking of doing some experimenting but you are the Queen of chickpeas I feel like you may have better luck than me! 😉

I was looking at the recipe and you had said to use a fourth cup of nut butter if not use oil, what kind of oil? I have a party coming up and I was wanting to make this! I loooove the batter and this way I can be guilt free! Thanks and keep blogging! ! 😉

Hi Katie!

I’m just wondering, what kind of sweetener do you use?

Love love your blog.. thanks for all the amazing recipes!

Just to make sure, when you say “1 can garbanzo beans, drained (250g)”, is it 250g AFTER or BEFORE draining?
Going to make it this week! 🙂

So as I posted up there (somewhere) I made this today and loved it! I managed to save some for hubby for when he got home from work. So…for dessert I spread it on halved bananas and sprinked them with coconut. He LOVED it and so did I. I was wondering if anyone has used it as a frosting? Mine had that consistency….

Oh yum!!! I did as another person suggested and used cannelini beans and 2 extra T. of cocoa. Wow! So delicious!!!!!!!!! I also didn’t want any “nutty” flavor in there so I used coconut oil. This is my favorite and I reeeeally like you cookie dough dip!

Just curious why you choose garbonzo beans vs white beans as your base??? I have a problem getting my garbonzo beans super smooth BUT I should note that I just got a new food processor so the brownie batter dip was the first thing I’ve made using my new machine. Maybe I’ll have just as much luck with my garbonzo beans….anyways just curious and am in no way trying to be snarky.

I don’t understand what I am doing wrong, but all I could taste was the beans 🙁 I followed the recipe to a T, and I even added some mini chocolate chips to see if it helped but I ended up throwing the batch away. I love love love that your recipes are so unique and I get so hungry looking at them so I’m sad it didn’t work for me. I made sure to drain and rinse the beans really well using a colander. I had the same problem with the deep dish cookie pie….could it be that I am not blending the ingredients well enough?

I’m so glad I decided (albeit grudgingly at first) to try Pinterest because I found YOU! Your recipes are awesome and I can’t wait to try them ALL! My whole family loves sweets (and junk food in general), and if it weren’t for me the only thing my husband would provide would be brownies, chips and crap from a box. I try very hard to make whole, healthy, delicious foods for everyone, but I usually get a roll of the eyes and a refusal to eat when I make beans of any sort. (I love to eat and make hummus, and usually have a batch sitting in the fridge and black beans are a weekly staple in my diet.) So, to give them a decadent treat that is good for them and includes beans???? I can’t wait to try these – thank you so much!

I kept looking at this recipe but I was afraid to make it because of the beans (we don’t always get along). I’m so glad I finally tried it, though! I used 1/3 cup brown sugar for the sweetener, 3 T Nature’s Promise unsalted creamy PB (forgot I probably should have added extra salt to compensate), and 3 T milk since it was fairly thick with only 2 T. I consumed absurd quantities of this the first night, just by spoon, lol. I kept trying to leave it out in the kitchen away from me and coming back for more! For some reason the second and third day I felt like I could taste the beans a little more (not sure if it was being slightly cold from the fridge or all in my head, hehe), but this was still awesome. Next time I must plan accordingly and have something suitable for dipping (or someone to share and save me from myself)! 😉

I just made this, used oil instead of peanut butter, and all I can taste is beans as well. I used my food processor which is cheap and tiny, so I blame it on that.

And I didn’t just totally dip oreo halves into it… :p

I’ll get a better food processor and hope for different results next time.

Hi Katie, I know this is kind of an old recipe, but I have been ignoring it for quite some time. Since I tried the cookie dough dip and fell in love, I decided this one could not possibly be as good therefor I would not try it. Well today, this recipe just happened to be calling my name. I planned to make it after dinner, but I just didn’t get the chance and it got late. Well at 11pm, instead of getting in bed, I decided to make this because I just couldn’t get it out of my head! It is ah-may-zing!! Can’t believe how awesome it is. I think I died and went to ooey, gooey, chocolatey heaven! Thank you!

Oh and I replaced half the sugar with ripe banana, in case anyone wants a suggestion for less sugar. And it is still super rich. 🙂

Thank you for letting me share my story!

You have probably answered this question before, but what happens if you use a blender instead of a food processor? We don’t have one, and I really want to make this!

I honestly think that this sounds so amazing, and it’s healthy too! However, I’m having a craving for this or your healthy cookie dough dip, but I don’t have either of the beans required to make these recipes in my apartment. Have you tried or do you have any recipes not using beans? I was just curious, the next time I go to the store though, both types of beans will for sure be on my list! Thank you!

I may have eaten this entire recipe out of the bowl after a bad day… I just convinced myself it was great protein so it didn’t matter! On the plus side, it made my day much much better!!!

I wonder instead of the chickpeas could you use black beans? I’ve made brownies using them before..

just made this using black beans and with added cocoa. 3 T sugar and about 1/2 T honey to sweeten . it was really chocolatey!!! great cure for chocolate attack!! I also used no milk and about a T of peanut butter ….and my kids liked it too 🙂

do you think it would still work if i subbed a banana for the sugar and most of the nut butter?

Hey!
do you think you could bake this into a brownie (much like you do with your cookie dough dip/deep dish cookie?)….any changes I should make?

I don’t know if you still read these comments from so long ago but do you know the nutritional information for this!?

Oh my gosh! After hearing raving reviews about the Cookie Dough Dip and the sugar free version today from two separate friends who don’t know each other, I became obsessed and HAD to try one of these dips for myself. Tonight. Thank God I happened to have a can of chickpeas hiding in my pantry. I was seriously about to go to the store at 10pm JUST so I could make this!
I used 2Tbsp Almond-coconut milk blend, added a 3rd Tbsp of Ghiradhelli cocoa powder, used coconut oil and added 1 Tbsp flax meal and 2 Tbsp of oats. I used 1/2 c. brown sugar and honestly think I could cut it down even more. It was plenty sweet. I don’t have a food processor but with some coaxing, my blender did fine. A food processor would be much easier and faster and I’d be willing to buy one just for making more of these dips! I am new to a fairly restrictive diet, but this I can eat! THANK YOU!!!

I’ve been stalking…I mean following your site for a while now, and love your recipes. I’m excited to try this recipe, being that my dad is gluten intolerant and a diabetic (and we’re going to watch the Superbowl at my parents house this weekend!) Thanks for posting…and here’s to hoping the Niner’s win (since I can’t cheer for my Falcons anymore…)

Do you think I could get away with half the pb? I want a pb taste, but I need lower cal…

Can i use nutella instead of a plain nut butter?

This stuff is SO FREAKIN’ GOOD. I’m eating some as we speak and totally food-gasming hahah. I seriously did not expect it to taste this good. It literally tastes JUST like brownie batter. I actually added some extra PB because I looove chocolate-peanut butter. And I’m pretty sure that it’s nearly impossible to make this with EVERY bit of garbanzo bean creamed, but I actually like the little bits of garbanzo bean in this recipe because it tastes like nuts! Soo good! This is a must try!!!!

I’ve been looking at your healthy recipes for awhile and have been hesitant to try dessert bean dip, but since it’s a rainy day today and I had nothing else to do I figured I’d try one. I made this with butter beans, drained and rinsed, since it’s the only kind of beans I had and sweetened it with brown sugar. Big mistake. It tasted good at first but then the bean taste hit me, so I would not recommend making this with butter beans. Also, the vanilla taste was way too strong and I think it could do with a lot less sugar. My fiancé tasted the bean taste right away. I think I’ll try this again, or the cookie dip once I have chickpeas. I also used a blender but it blended fine.

Made his last night. Omitted oil/ nut butter, replaced milk with canned condensed coconut milk, and used the soaked dried pitted dates (from the sugar free chocolate cookie dough dip) as my sweetener. I also shaved some bittersweet baking chocolate into it. It was delicious 🙂

I guess I am just cursed with extremely sensitive taste buds because no matter what I did, the taste of the chickpeas overwhelmed all other flavors for me. I even tried adding extra cocoa and pb. My husband couldn’t taste the beans at all even when I told him and thought the dip was tasty. Oh well, my coworkers and hubby will enjoy it at least.

calories?

I always want to make your dips, and I plan to soon! 🙂 Just wondering … what do use for dipping? What are your favorite … “dipping vessels”? 🙂

I tried this today, in a blender (I don’t have a food processor). The good news – my blender (a Kitchenaid Artisan) was able to produce a dip with a nice smooth texture. To help get it moving, I only added half the chickpeas with all the other ingredients, and then added the rest of the chickpeas once the first half was relatively smooth, I’m not sure if that was necessary. However, to be honest, I’m not sold on the flavour. I can taste the chickpeas in the background (though not overwhelmingly so), and even having added some extra cocoa powder, it just doesn’t have the right chocolatey thing happening. I’ll see how it goes down with my friends tonight though.

I made this the other weekend and was in LOVE. SOOO GOOD. It tasted exactly like it was boxed brownie batter. I love that this is low carb and full of protein. I eat it by the spoonful… for a snack, dessert and even breakfast! Love all your recipes — so healthy yet soooo delicious!

Made this for the first time tonight. I have a fairly small food processor so it didn’t all come out 100% smooth, but I didn’t even care. I probably added more PB than I should’ve (I plan to edit this recipe with WowButter for my nut-allergic boyfriend when I inexplicably make him try this in the future) but OH MY GOD was it good. Seriously. I had to stop myself before I ate the whole damn thing. I had chunks of angel food cake with it. That was really hard to scoop but I liked the idea of it. I doubled the cocoa powder… that probably gave it the thicker texture. I have this chilling in the fridge right now and I’m excited to snack on it tomorrow night!!!

I really wanted to like this. I love healthy food but I just couldn’t stomach it. It was smooth, and looked like dark chocolate brownie batter…but it didn’t taste like peanut butter or chocolate….and I used dark cocoa powder and Peanut Butter and Co peanut butter. Not sure where I went wrong or if I just had my hopes up too high. Boo hoo! I tried to salvage it, doubling the cocoa powder, the peanut butter, and the sugar…now it tastes like sweet garbonzo beans…bummer!

Can I say yummy?! I made this with my Dash blender, and though I did have to add more milk (prob about 5 T total), it still tastes great (A few years ago I tried the regular cookie dough dip with a regular blender and it tasted beany, so I think a high powered blender is a must). Next time I will reduce the sugar at least to 1/2 cup, since it was a bit too sweet for me. I ended up blending in 1/3 cup of oats and some more cocoa just to try to tone it down a bit and it is a lot better for me. I noticed on the cookie dough dip the sugar is to preference, which is how I will make this next time.

This is the first time I’ve commented on a recipe, but I make a lot of them (usually ones that have mainstreamish ingredients, since I’m not vegan or vegetarian or organic, etc) because I like to feed my family healthful foods and not feel guilty about desserts. So your food blog is one of my favorite sites! Thank you! 🙂

This looks so good! I’ve tried several of your bean desserts and breakfast muffins and have loved all of them! Who thought beans could make such amazing desserts? My husband (who is not really a healthy eater) liked them too!

I tried the recipe and although it was good I feel like I should have used chickpeas instead of black beans! Posting this comment for anyone who reads through them because I know I do 🙂 In my experience with this chickpeas have a more neutral base and the black beans have a slightly beany-aftertaste whilst the chickpeas don’t. Apart from that it was really good. May have had it for lunch haha!