Snickerdoodle Blondies

eating your snickerdoodle pancakes right now :). used truvia packets instead of sugar and they taste swell. definitely think this is a great replacement for pancakes that have all that butter and oil in the recipes!

Making blondies in your pjs? Yup, you have my dream job.

I’d love to be a full-time blogger. Now if only I had a blog ;).

I’m living my dream job!! A stay-at-home of 2 toddlers (4 & 2) and 1 more on the way in a few weeks. Recently started up my own personal training business, in-home or at client’s home, and I specialize in pre & post natal fitness. Sweet!!

Clean eating rules and the CCK treats are my fave, fave, fave desserts.

Soooo happy to have found this website. Forget how, no matter, I’m so happy 🙂 And full, LOLz

Yum!!!!!!! I really need to go buy some chickpeas now! 😀

Delicious!

I used stevia and 1 and 1/2 tbsp cinnamon, and I don’t think they’ll make it to the baking stage! I’ve eaten half the batter already! Thanks for the awesome recipe!

My dream job would be working with families to promote a healthy lifestyle or being a personal chef for someone who is interested in a healthy lifestyle.

Currently, I am doing a Nurse Externship on the Family Birth Center floor of the local hospital! 🙂

These look so fudgey and amazing!

Just took them out of the oven, and I’ve already had three! These things should come with a warning label!

These look amazing! You are such a genius, Katie 🙂

I am glad I am not the only one that doesn’t know what I want to do. Throughout high school, I planned on going to Columbia or Oxford….but the reality check of not being able to pay that much for college sunk in 🙂 I live close to SMU & love the campus, but I’d get spoiled by still living with my parents.

Now I am studying to be a personal trainer and off to Paris for 1 year to be an au pair. After that, I don’t know what I’ll be doing. I’d like to be a journalist or do something with fitness…preferably travelling internationally a lot.

You know what’s funny, I dont even know what you do?! I have an idea but not the full story. Our emails are always full of everything else besides boring stuff like talking about jobs and work 🙂

My dream job…the past few months I wish I had found photography sooner. I’d love to somehow take my newfound photography love and turn it into something else. But I’d never want to be, say a wedding photographer. I have no idea. Some day maybe I will figure it all out 🙂

The blondies look great!

I was the same – I KNEW Iwanted to be a vet, then our cat got put down and I changed my mind straight away…
I love my current job; I’m a journalist, so I think my dream job would be doing something like it, but only maybe three half-days a week. For full pay 🙂
And I’m out of beans – mission for tomorrow is to get some!

Current job = teacher and blogger! While I don’t really consider blogging a job, I do make money from it.. and I do love it! My dream job, besides being a teacher, is to be a stay at home mom. I think it’s one of the most important jobs in the world!

I used to want to be a veternarian too! Until I found out you had to put down animals and I dont think I could handle that.

I might just have to try out one of these blondie recipes 🙂 Kind of suits me!

Yum, snickerdoodles! Hubby loves those, think I could sneak these past him without him detecting the “unusual” ingredients? LOL

I always thought I’d be a neonatal nurse… and I think if I had the chance to go back to school, that’s what I’d go back for. But after 3 years of undergrad as a nursing major, I was so stressed out and having so much trouble coping (dealing with anorexia and self harm at the time, couldn’t take the stress of nursing on top of that), I couldn’t see how it was going to be a career for me, so I switched over to a biology major… fast forward thru grad school and a clinical internship, and I’m now a medical technologist! I love the med tech field – there are so many opportunities, I can work in a core lab running CBCs and chem panels, or I can work in a blood bank crossmatching blood for transfusions, or I can work in a microbiology lab finding the bugs causing people’s infections, or about 100 other things. Currently I do oncology testing – heartbreaking some days (yesterday we diagnosed a 17 month old with leukemia) but very rewarding in many ways. It’s a great career to be in right now!

Okay so i just made these…and umm I may have used stevia 🙂 ,some maple syrup and raw vegan chocolate protein powder…oh and enough cinnamon to feed a small family..i LOVE that stuff. DUN DUN DUN…they came out awesome 🙂 Tank for being so amazeballs Katie. But really…i read your blog everyday.

looks great! I loved the chocolate chip blondies, all gone. 🙁

I feel so lucky to say…I live my dream jobs=healthy chef, baker, private trainer, model. 🙂

I’m a lawyer at a big firm. Katie, I have a lot of attorney friends, and every single one of them is miserable. EVERY SINGLE ONE. I know that out there, there must be some twenty-something who just loves big law. I’ve not met that person. And the money’s not that good when you factor in the 7 years of loans you need to pay back. People warned me about this, and I didn’t listen….I thought they were just weak, couldn’t handle it. Nope, it really is that heinous. I often daydream about quitting, but with my staggering loans…

You made the right choice, doll!

I am just going to say it… I was LEERY to say the least about trying this recipe. You see a while back I was DESPERATE for something bad, but good.. so I found a recipe for black bean brownies and they turned out awful. I gagged. You can see why I was leery. I sucked it up and decided to give these a whirl after coming back to it day after day just to read what people were saying.

Verdict…..

DELICIOUS. I will forever have loads of chick peas in my cupboards for whenever I feel like being “bad”.

Thank you for changing my mind!

Crap.. I just ate 1/3 the pan too. I like these better than the chocolate chip variety and i’m usually a choco-fiend. I’m gonna test out a raspberry coconut version tomorrow! Thanks again Katie 🙂

Oh, but by the way, how do you store yours?

I have been out of town and unable to keep up with your fabulous blog, but I was SO excited to come back and find your blondie recipe!!!! I too have been scouring blogs for a healthy blondie recipe and cannot wait to try yours! You are a genius Katie!

As a student UPenn, taking the LSAT in a week and sooo boored of studying, I decided to procrastinate and get my mind off of work by coming to see what goodies I could make later as a in-one-week-you-will-be-done-with-this-horrible-test treat. Having now read that post, I think the universe is trying to tell either to get back to studying or that its my destiny to go make some snickerdoodle blondies right now. I’m gonna go with the latter 🙂

I made these snickerdoodle blondies tonight, though the chickpeas added an odd taste to them and they didn’t become firm for me, yet i’m thinking I could fix this by cooking them a bit longer. I was wondering if pumpkin might be a reasonable substitute for the chickpeas or if there is something different that would be worth a try?

My dream job? Training whales at Sea World!! LOL But my job as a hairstylist is a lot of fun 😀

Just got a taste of these Snickerdoodle blondies right out of the oven (made them in mini-muffin pan) and they were tasty! My fiance tried them (of course I did not reveal the secret ingredient) and he liked them too. He even had a second piece after finding out they had beans. Thanks for the recipe!

I just got these to the oven….I did some changes, I cutted down the sugar by using some pitted dates and a bit more of the apple sauce, then I used little more cinnamon and skipped the vanilla (I´m out of it, hah). And instead of chickpeas I used regular white beans…Was there anything else…Oh yeah, instead of nut butter I used tahini! But basicly it is kind of a nut butter, a seed butter at least. I´ll let you know how they turn out!

LOVE this blog. I’ve tried quite a few recipes, but it was my first time doing this one. I made these tonight and used white beans instead of chickpeas….it did not go well. They ended up being not thick enough and it was so liquidy it just boiled and bubbled up in my oven. They don’t seem like they will thicken up, but we’ll see! I’ll have to use chickpeas next time. The dough was good…. 🙂

I just made these and wrote a review on my blog! They were amazing! I shared them with my Nutrition Class along with a few other recipes, and these were the overall favorite!

Did you know that you’re on Calorie Count’s 10 Mouthwatering Low-Calorie Desserts? I was reading through the list thinking, “I doubt any of these are as good as Chocolate Covered Katie. I wonder if they know about Choc— Oh look! Chocolate Covered Katie!”

Sorry, i know this is OVER a year old, but I wanted to say that the science thing, well, all this baking (or no bake-not sure what to call it!) is ALL science! 🙂 It takes alot to even follow the directions properly—and I should know, I NEVER follow directions 😛 >_<

What type of nut butter do you recommend for the snickerdoodle blondies? Almond, pb?
Loved the choc chip blondies 🙂

my blondies are in the oven right now!
Katie- do you ever use PB2? I did 2 tablespoons of the PB2 + 1 tablespoon applesauce instead of the 3T nut butter. i also used 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/4 cup truvia. those changes brought the total calories per piece (16 servings) to 56.6.

THANK YOU for your wonderful recipes.

I am not sure about the calorie count for the Snicker Doodle Blondies. The brown sugar alone is 622 calories. I even used light peanut butter.

I figured it at 10 servings making it 144 calories a serving.

They are delicious but I wonder how I can use less brown sugar without it tasting ‘diet’.
Do you ever use Agave nectar? I love it but haven’t used it it baking.

Just made these, and there were so yummy! Warm and gooey and cinnamon-y! They were so easy to make, too! My family loved them (and has no idea they have beans in them!) Thanks for another great recipe! 🙂

I’m confused how you cut them into 20 because that would make them literally bite size or smaller, no? Unless I’m doing something wrong-I cut them into 8 and they weren’t huge at all so I’m now a little worried that I’m consuming a lot more calories than I thought. I used brown sugar splenda but I’m confused to the amount of calories and carbs a piece is if I cut them into 8. They would be more than 2 carbs per piece?!
Sorry for being all annoying-I’ve just been trying to increase my caloric intake but not by too much and it turns out I’ve miscalculated these by a lot more than I thought!

By the way, they taste amazing:)

I love all of your recipes so far but have not made a dessert with beans in them! I will though these look great. In August I started a journey elimintating gluten, dairy and most sugar, even natural sugar. I felt 10 years younger. I’m 32 but had lots of aches and pains that have gotten so much better with a real food diet. Thank you for all of your great ideas!

I am now a stay at home mom of two girls (2 and 4.) I have a degree and worked outside of the home before I had my first little one. I always thought I would stay at home with my kids if The Lord provided that, but I didn’t realize how much it was my dream job. I love it and wouldn’t want to be doing anything else! I have looked for little ways to make extra money, selling crafty things and such, but nothing has really worked out or proved to be worth the time it took. Through that The Lord showed me to be content with job he has for me at home. I love it!

Hi Katie- keep up with the gluten-free goodies. I will be checking in often. Thanks

I’ve been wanting to try your snickerdoodles for a while now but after christmas I was not in the mood for cookies again so when I saw this recipe popping up on pinterest I knew I had to give it a try. What can I say, they taste yummy, gooey indeed but they are still rather warm but I couldn’t help myself. The batter was so, so good too.
I did make some slight changes but I guess nothing that hasn’t been tried so far: I subbed flax meal for 1/2 oatmeal flour and 1/2 spelt flour, I didn’t want to use peanut butter but I didn’t have any other nut butter at home so I used regular vegan butter, I topped them with 1T of brown sugar but used stevia powder according to the packaging equivalent to 100g sugar!

I just wanted to let you know I tried out this recipe today! It was awesome! I made the chickpeas from dry kabuli channa (it’s what I had haha!), and I substituted the nut butter for 2 tablespoons PB2, 1/4 a frozen banana, and 2 tablespoons of water. I also realized I didn’t have baking soda, so I just used 1 teaspoon of baking powder for the whole recipe. And then I substituted 1/2 cup splenda and 1 teaspoon molasses for the brown sugar. It turned out great! I’d tried other bean brownie recipes but none of them were as good as this 🙂

A friend and I are nannies and tried making these today and it was a fail. What do you use to blend the ingredients? We have a Vitamix blender that can blend just about anything but it didn’t work very well.

We put them in the oven but after a few minutes we couldn’t get past the smell and we threw it away. The smell was revolting. 🙁 We’re sitting here with candles burning and the windows open in hopes of getting rid of the lingering smell.

These are amazing! such a clever idea to use chickpeas. love your recipes!

OMG! Great recipe! Instead of using brown sugar I made a healthy homemade substitute by combining 3/4 cup of stevia and adding just a under a tablespoon of molasses, I worked wonderfully! I also used a can of Great Northern White Beans from Trader Joe’s. (They are made with sea salt, so only 140mg of sodium per half cup and only 100 calories!) I don’t have a food processor so I used a blender. I combined everything accept for the ground flaxseed and stevia & molasses mixture and put the blender on ice crush mode, then after that was blended I added the stevia molasses, and ground flaxseed. It made ablut 8 large bars for only 108 calories each!!! And it tastes AMAZING!!! Thanks so much Katie!!! <3

These are delicious! My son loves them too & I can feel good about us eating them. I didn’t frost them & they are good just the way they are. I decided to eat some with vanilla Greek yogurt…AMAZING! As a side note, the dough itself is delicious without baking it.