Healthy Chickpea Cookie Dough Dip

I second Carrie’s comment!

I was reading Food Network Magazine and it said some people have a certain gene that makes them love creamy foods. I think I have it! I like cookie dough more than cookies, frosting more than cake, and ice cream is definitely my favorite dessert.
And I guess this answers the question of “Are you a chatterbox?”

Oh and just out of curiosity, what does the baking soda do?

Everything you make looks insanely delicious- I hate my cooking being on hiatus due to exams! My friends and I are planning on having a CCK based celebration picnic after our exams; this dip is definitely added to the list of recipes 🙂
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Oooooh.. tasty! My personality depends on who I’m with– when with people I;m comfortable with, I can be sort of chattery, like low-key high energy (does that make sense?), and crack lots of jokes. Other times I can have a total diplomatic conversation with someone, like at an event I’m hosting.

Frankly I don’t even know my personality that well! It feels like the person I’m naturally inclined to be goes in and out sometimes!

Wow, this looks DELICIOUS. As soon as I get a chance, I’m stocking up on chickpeas. All the recipes you’ve been posting lately are calling my name!

Katie, I’ll make this tonight or tomorrow for my boyfriend. He’s about as anti-healthy food as they come. I’ll let you know the verdict! I know *I* will like it though 😉

Oh man, you’re a genius!… Are you really from planet earth? 😉

I’m the quiet type of person. But am therefore very happy when I’m in a group with chatterboxes, makes everything more lively.

I’m a huge natural chatterbox. I guess that’s good, seeing as I write for a living! I’ve definitely bookmarked this – cookie dough is one of my favorite things ever, so a healthy version? Count me in!

Katie, you want to know if “normal” people like your recipes? Enter, my mother. Not a particularly daring or adventurous cook. Not one to try new things. Not vegan or vegetarian. She eats a fairly “healthy” diet, but is generally suspicious of things specifically labeled “healthy.” You get the picture.

Well, this weekend, I went to visit said mother and brought with me my jar of flax seed (which I had taken from her cabinet a while ago because she NEVER used it). I wanted to try your blondies. Mother couldn’t figure out why the weird flax seed stuff was in the house again but I explained that I wanted to try this recipe I saw. Ok, says she. Then, she saw the recipe. Chickpeas? Flax seed? No flour? What?!?!

Well, we made it. And after the blondies came out of the oven, she just kept moving the tray around and did not even try one of them (she usually “tests” everything she makes almost immediately). Well, my curiousity got the better of me and I tasted them. They were delicious. I gave her a piece. And she loved them. Like really, really loved them. Like, as soon as we finished dinner she wanted her dessert. No waiting for a mother with blondies on the mind.

This morning when I went to pack my flax seed, the container seemed suspiciously light. I looked in the refrigerator, and there was a plastic storage container filled with flax seed that she had purloined from my jar. When questioned, she said, “Well, you know I have to make those blondies again!”

So, yes, Katie, “normal” people like your recipes! Thanks for another great one! (And sorry this is so long!)

I’m loving this recipe just from the looks! I’ve never thought to use chickpeas for a sweet recipe. I seriously can’t wait to make this!

YUM!!!! I HAVE GOT TO TRY THIS 🙂
You’re a genius 😉

O.M.G. I’m making this! Will let you know how it turns out 🙂

I’ve been seeing quite a few dessert hummuses floating around the blogging community for a while now…I think it’s time I give one of them a try! I love garbanzo beans. I wouldn’t underestimate them in ANY recipe, sweet OR savory, therefore I think this usage of my favorite bean sounds delicious.

Yum, I made this with banana butter and no sweetener 🙂 It’s chilling in the fridge right now. I think I’ll have some of it later with a toasted mini whole wheat pita sprinkled with cinnamon 😀 I bet if I had used peanut butter and a sweetener it would be even better but I’ll save that for another time!

I imagine myself eating this with a spoon. I’ve seen similar variations of this on many blogs, i really need to try it! I’m a introverted person and I used to be very shy. I can talk a lot when I want but mostly I like to listen

I’m lovin’ this recipe! I have that same problem with not knowing if people are going to like my healthy recipes that I think taste sooo delicious!

I love this recipe. I made one similiar a few weeks back from a HEAB post. 🙂 I serve mine with ghram crackers.

I am Not so much a chatterbox… only when I am nervous I suppose!

I love how you brought this recipe and did not tell anyone what was in it! I do that all the time to prove a point. hehe!

Um yes yes and more yes?! This looks perfect in every way. I’m often way more of a fan of the dough (for pretty much anything!) than the actual baked good so this recipe has my name stamped all over it. I’ve done the dessert hummus thing before and just love it but this takes it to a new level for sure. SO excited to try it!

As for being a chatterbox, I’d say normally I’m more reserved. But I CAN definitely be a chatterbox with certain people, under certain circumstances, on certain topics. It really depends! If I’m on a tangent… I might never shut up 🙂 But I don’t talk about myself all that much so that keeps me pretty quiet in a lot of situations. I’m trying to bump it up a bit though, it can be kind of a pain shutting myself off from others.

I often have the same concerns about my recipes–I like them, but I’m a self-proclaimed health-nut who will gladly eat a bag of carrots plain. I often wonder if my recipes are only tasty to me!
I was a chatterbox child, but I became increasingly reserved with age. I’m pretty shy these days!

Oh my goodness, that cookie dough dip looks fantastic! I’m pretty sure I have most of the ingredients to make this already, so after a trip to grab some chocolate chips I should be set.

I am most definitely a chatter box. I find it difficult to limit the writing in my posts because I could talk for days! In the words of my 92 year old grandmother (to my fiance), “She sure talks a lot, doesn’t she?”

After seeing the recipe and realizing I had everything needed (which never happens), I threw this together last night and ate about half of it with a spoon before I got out the graham crackers. The boyfriend took a bite and said, “Isn’t raw cookie dough bad for you?” I took some to work this morning and gave a bite to a co-worker who said “Isn’t it too early for cookie dough?” This really is amazing!

Thanks so much for this recipe. I’ve been on a candida-free diet now for about a month and have been going crazy with cravings for sweets. I’ve been greedily poring through your blog and finally went out to seek out some liquid stevia (have not been impressed with the crystal/powders I’ve tried before) to make this. I ended up throwing in cinnamon and cloves to cover up a bit more of the chickpea taste, but I’m wondering if maple extract would too… Also, I got my mom to eat some of it too- I don’t even think the WORD vegan had crossed her lips before, muchless any vegan dish 🙂 thanks for your inspiration!

OH MY GOD! So good.

I used agave, and it was great! Thank you! This is going to be a common dessert in my life, I can tell already. totally satisfying and super easy to make.

Katie, I made the blondie batter (with banana for sweetness) and used it to top my cookie dough oatmeal this morning. OHMYGOSH so good. Thank you, Katie!!

I made this last night with cream cheese instead of nut butter, and oh my goodness its so delicious! I should have omitted or used less milk, though, because its definately more of a dip than the thick cookie dough I was looking for… oh well, I’ll just make sure to do that next time… because there WILL BE a next time! This stuff is SO good!

I wonder if you could freeze it? One of my favorite guilty pleasures is spoonfuls of frozen Tollhouse cookie dough straight from the tub… I wonder if this would take on that same texture, or just freeze like a rock?

Hi Katie – this was so yummy! I made the lower fat version too and liked it just the same. BUT is there trick to make beans less constipating? It seems no matter how i prepare them ( i do soak and sprout them too) they always stop me up. maybe there is something besides beans to use in these cookie/dip recipes? any idea’s for me 🙂

Katie!
I’ve tried three of your recipes. This “cookie dough” being the most recent. You are three for three in my book. YUM! Can I get a YUM YUM?? One word for you: Genius. Spreading the word of your awesomeness! 😛
Jillian

I have to confess, I laughed a bit at Em’s question….only because I would never have to be concerned with how long this stuff would last….It’s never around long enough for me to consider that question! Either I like this stuff WAY too much or Em has more willpower than I…perhaps both! 😛

Ok, So I have to admit that I made this recipe for two reasons: 1. I LOVE cookie dough. I never actually make the cookies, I just eat the dough and 2. I’m skeptic about healthy food. It’s the reason I have a hard time eating healthy-it all tastes so gross! So I gave it a try and before I even got to stick my finger in it, my husband came up and said “what are you making?”, tasted it, and said, “ooh, you’re making cookies!” Oh my gosh! We dipped apples in it. I now must say I have faith in healthy food, as long as I get the recipes from this site. You are a miracle worker. Thank you so much for sharing your talent.

PS please please please post the brownie recipes. The one thing I love more than cookie dough is brownies.

Thank you again and again.

Both this and the blondies taste bean-y to me. Two other tasters liked them so maybe it’s just me? I don’t know, every bite just tastes like garbanzo beans in my opinions =/ Oh well, it was nothing a little cocoa powder and half of a banana couldn’t fix! And since I didn’t use the flax, the dip is a little runny, so I guess it’s now become chocolate banana salsa?

I may or may have eaten 1/4 of this dip with an apple for my afternoon snack today 😉 Love this! And I don’t feel sick and guilty after eating multiple spoonfuls of it (unlike real cookie dough!).

Sadly, I also got a big bowl of liquid. Waaaaaah! For some reason when I added the sugar it just became a bowl of bean-flavored goo. So sad! I followed the rest of the recipe but it didn’t become the lovely thick dollop of awesome shown in the main photo. Beans were drained overnight… any ideas on what went wrong, and how I could fix this?

I know, how weird! I totally drained the beans too. But I am having better success with smaller amounts of sugar. I don’t know why beans + sugar = runny in my neck of the woods. Starting with a thicker mixture and adding sugar gradually is working much better.

This is so good

I just made this and it turned out delicious, but with one problem- mine is MUCH more liquidy than yours appears to be from the picture- thoughts?

Just ran out to the shop to get a can of chickpeas, I was so keen to try this out! It’s 9pm here and I should be winding down for the night but I wouldn’t have been able to sleep without giving this a go, heheh.

Fired it all together in my Magic Bullet and it works like a charm!

Was a bit worried that my family’s Scottish palate would protest so I didn’t tell them about the chickpea’s, but they all tried it and gave it the thumb’s up so what they don’t know won’t hurt them 😀

I used peanut butter so that it had a recognisable flavour for them and light brown sugar so it had a similar ‘grit’ to cookie dough but I left out the choc chips and it still came out great! Took about 5 mins in the Magic Bullet. Served it with sliced apples this time and will definitely be making more.

My husband is a keen cyclist so I’ve sold it to him on the merit of being high protein…and tasty too!
Thanks soooo much!

This is so delicious KT! I just made some in my dorm room (with my snazzy new blender) and now have a jar of it for whenever I need it…and yes, I can be a chatterbox…once I was on a trip with my friend’s family and she and her sister were asleep in the car, so I was talking with her mom for a while, and then there was a slight pause, in which she said, “Talk a lot, don’t you?” It was funny because before that I’d always thought I was more introverted…which is not so after all.

Wow, I am seriously shocked. It tasted good, even when I’d forgotten to add sugar (I have a sweet tooth!), after I added 1 tbsp, it tasted exactly like cookie dough.

WIN!

you’re incredible katie!! i just had to share your recipe here:
http://dollarstoremom.com/2011/09/make-healthy-cookie-dough-dip/

thanks for your amazing recipes!!!

Silly question…Is nut butter the same as peanut butter? Is that what everyone is using to make this recipe?
Thanks!!

This recipe is so amazing! I posted it on my community foodie blog, hopefully you’ll come check it out. http://www.facebook.com/thefrenchiefoodie

C

First of all, I came across your website via Pinterest. Someone had “pinned” this recipe and and I saw the words “healthy” and “chocolate chip cookie dough”. That sparked my curiosity because I wonder how it could be possible. I clicked the link for your website and that’s when I saw the question, “want to eat a BIG bowl of cookie dough?” Why yes I would! The fact that your non-vegan friends loved it made me want to try it. I am not a vegan nor could I ever be. Sometimes (please don’t take this the wrong way) I feel like vegans have these crazy concoctions and they say that they are soooo tasty, but when I see the ingredients, I want to gag.

Anyway, I decided that I wanted to try it because I was SO curious.

Well I just finished making it and…

It was far better than I could have imagined! Wow. I definitely could not taste the chickpeas! This is going to be a fun one to make and surprise my friends and family. Actually, I can’t wait to have my husband come home from work because I am 100% confident that he will love it.

Thank you for this delicious and healthy recipe! I plan on trying out some of the other recipes that you have on here as well 🙂

Wow, I’m totally making this all for myself this week!! I’m wondering though….I don’t like stevia, can I use ideal instead?

Have you ever peeled the garbanzo beans….it makes them creamier albeit a chore but sometimes a nice touch

So I tried this tonight and it just didn’t turn out well at all. I followed the recipe exactly – I did 3 rounded tablespoons of peanut butter, 3T of milk (not a vegan so I used 1% cow’s milk), 3T of oats, and 1/2c brown sugar (I have a bad sweet tooth). It tasted like weird hummus to me. So then I started to experiment by adding more vanilla, some ground flax seed (cause it was runny) and some cinnamon and more sugar…still no dice. Then I added flour and that just made it even weirder. I guess I’m a total fail at this one. I put it in the fridge anyway and will see if my kids want to eat it, at least it would be an easy way to get some beans into them.

HOLY COOKIE DOUGH BATMAN! If I hadn’t made it myself, I would not believe it isn’t cookie dough (the fattening kind). One question: did you use peanut butter or somthing else. It has the delicious taste of peanut butter but I think I would like to try it without the peanut flavor. Also, did you use non-dairy creamer or somthing else. (I used fat-free french vanilla creamer.)

I just made this for the second time, but the first time using my new Magic Bullet, and it is SOOOO AMAZING!!!! I just keep eating it with a spoon! I love the addition of the oats, too!

Hey Katie! My first visit to your blog 🙂 I can’t wait to make this… in December when I’m done with my low-carb plan. LOL Not sure this would fit in yet. But oh my goodness I want to stick my face in that bowl. It doesn’t taste “beany?”

It’s me again! The other chocoholic Katie, lol. My mom and I tried this dip and we were pleasantly surprised and how yummy it was. We used graham crackers and those fig newton crispy cookie things as dippers and I was tempted to eat it straight out of the bowl too, lol. Great job, Katie! We hope to try more of your recipes soon. 🙂

Katie.. I loved this recipe w/one just one issue… it was more peanut buttery than I was prepared for. Maybe the recipe should be called Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip dip? I should have heeded your note that you can get away w/3 T of PB. I ended up throwing in a banana to try to sublte the pb flavor. There’s no denying it’s a Peanut Butter dip. Is there any way I can make this taste less peanut buttery or do I just need to make a new recipe using less peanut butter next time?

I do love the recipe and I’m planning to make several of your desserts for company coming soon. My husband insisted I make the deep dish chocolate chip pie for the company and reveal the ingredients after they’ve even it all.

Hi I am a little confused. I have a can of beans, 1.5 cups, but it is 425 grams. Where do you get a can 250g can of beans that has 1.5 cups? Thanks!

I just tried to make this and it was the consistency of a runny peanut butter (natural style that you have to stir up). I used 1/4C of almond butter for the nut butter and everything else I did exactly as you said. Any suggestions? And I did just use 1 can of chickpeas… The flavor is good, so I think it’s the lack of dough consistency that isn’t cutting it. Love all your recipes I have tried so far!

Lovely recipe and a brilliant idea.
I do however have one question….Why the baking soda in a recipe that is not cooked?
Sorry just curious.

ok…so I just made the dip and put it on a brown rice cake…SOOO YUMMY…and considering I eat very clean..I’m so glad you create healthy desserts that I can incorporate into my lifestyle!!!!…geesh this deep is so yummy lol….I think I already said that lol

The third time is a …charm? My last attempt was the sugar free version. I overblended it, and my additions make it taste like a very fudgey icing. So… don’t know if you already have one of those, but that really rocked as an icing: it was super chocolately and super thick. This time I used a magic bullet instead of my blendtec. I did the chick-peas separately from all the other ingrendients, then blended them together–I should have stirred. I got a very close consistency to your pic and the taste is on point. I did use 2 T Coconut Oil this time instead of a nut butter. Thanks for your tips to help me get this recipe right! I’m not a recipe guru myself, so thanks for the guidance. You, on the other hand are a genious! Hope you are loving your new place 🙂

I love this recipe and I love your blog!
I made this for my 2 1/2 and 6year old boys. They ate this up along with my husband who loves cookie dough. I confess I had some for lunch yesterday 🙂 LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

I’ve lost 78lbs and I’m trying to take the last few off. I’m always looking for new healthy and tasty recipes. Let me know when you come out with a book! I will be buying one! Also if you haven’t already I would look into finding a publisher/agent.

Keep the awesome recipes coming!

Katie, I just made this today and I am IN LOVE WITH IT. I actually ended up using honey to sweeten it and dark chocolate chips. I put it in the refrigerator for a while before digging in because I like cookie dough cold, but ohmygosh it’s SO SO SO good. It’s halfway gone. Already. Is that normal? hehe

EXCELLENT. My kids loved it and I think this recipe might be the one that FINALLY convinces my husband to let me get a Vitamix blender! I’m officially hooked on the site!

My little ones are allergic to nuts. Suggestions ? Or can I use their soy nut butter?

Love, love, LOVE this recipe. Made it for the second time tonight and only used 2 T brown sugar, 2 T almond butter, 2 T applesauce and 3 T flax meal. It was perfect.
I just discovered your blog and am looking forward to making pretty much each and every recipe.
Have you ever used infant rice cereal? I am just starting to experiment with it, but I make something similar to your pumpkin and banana bread in a bowl with it. I love the flavor and consistency!

why am i the only one who thought this was GROSS!!!!? Made it for a football party and everyone hated it! I followed the recipe to a T (except i omited the oatmeal and milk per your alternative suggestion)

Yuck!

Oh.my.Gosh. I have wanting to try this recipe ever since I found it on Pinterest. I am trying to find a hiding place for it so there will be some left for my school aged child and husband. Honestly, I wasn’t sold until I tasted it..I LOVE hummus, but chickpeas and chocolate chips?? I’m a believer!!!! Delicious. Thanks!!!

tried this last night — it has been on my “to-make” list since you posted it — and OMG, it is amazing. I had it for breakfast this morning. I can’t get over how delicious it is! I added extra soymilk for a creamier consistency, and extra cinnamon, and only a teaspoon of sugar (it was just sweet enough!) I have plans to make at least two more batches of it to use up all of the chickpeas in my pantry 🙂 thanks katie!!

Made this yesterday for the first time and it was AMAZING!! I can’t wait to try the rest of your recipes. My husband & I ate the whole thing in about an hour. Probably defeats the purpose of healthy cooking when you eat all of it in one sitting, but it was great!! I’m trying the healthy chocolate chip cookies and brownie batter dip today! Thank you for creating & sharing all your wonderful recipes!

This recipe is sooooo good. I can’t believe how yummy it really is. I left out the vanilla simply because I was out but still, it’s awesome. My 7 year old loved it and he doesn’t like chick peas! We dipped chocolate Graham crackers in ours.

Katie-

Thank you so much for this recipe. I have kept it up my sleeve for a while now. Well, I pulled it out tonight as we have a bunch of family over for Thanksgiving. Everyone one loved it, even my picky kids. After they all admitted to enjoying it and some got seconds I told them about the chick peas. My daughter stopped eating mid bite to find out what a chick pea was. I told her she already publicly committed to liking it so she couldn’t take it back. Everyone got thirds. Thanks so much!

I found your site thru pinterest, you have such an awesome site.
Just made this for a family get together, cant wait for all of them to try it. I didn’t have any nut butter, so I used regular peanut butter. I will definitely pick up some nut butter to try next time.

So I just saw this and knowing my addiction to cookie dough, there was only a 2 min. window between me and this recipe. I printed it off and dashed down to the pantry to see if by a slim chance, I had a can of chickpeas. Thank goodness my grandmother is the ultimate stock shopper, and I did not have to drive to the store at 8 o’clock at night, just for a can of chickpeas. Phew! I have to say that it is AWESOME. My mom came into the kitchen and looked at me weird when I was making it, “chickpeas and peanut butter?” and a look of disgust came from her face, but I made her try it and even though she prefers her cookies baked, she liked it! I will have to try it with something other than peanut butter next time, but it was defiantly the highlight of my saturday night spread onto a graham cracker!! 🙂

Would using cow’s milk work ok? I just don’t want to buy non dairy milk if I don’t have to. I don’t think we’d use the remaining amount. I’m trying this recipe this weekend. I too am going to set it out and get their reactions before telling them the ingredients!

This was delicious! I didn’t have oats or flax so I blended up the rest of the ingredients (minus the milk), and then slowly added splashes of milk as I blended to make it creamier. It wasn’t quite as smooth as I’d hoped but I think I probably just didn’t blend it for long enough! I’m gonig to try it with the oats and flax next time which I think will make it thicker. I think it’s even better when it’s chilled! I used about 1/3 cup of Agave nectar and could see using even less, it really doesn’t seem to need much sweetener added at all which is impressive! Glad I found your site 🙂

Can I just say that your recipes make me want to cry?!?!? We recently discovered that my 5 year old son is gluten sensitive. There are many things he can’t have now but soooo many of your delicious recipes will be just fine for him! It’s especially hard around this time of year where there are so many sweet desserts he can’t have…. it makes me sad for him. But I will replace them with yours and he will be a very happy little boy!! Thank you soooo MUCH!!

I’m just looking through all the recipes on your blog (which I just discovered about 10 minutes ago via pintrest) and Oh My HECK! These pictures and your descriptions are making my mouth water! The look divine! What great ways to satisfy a sweet tooth on a diet! I was wondering if you had any idea about the carb count on any of these recipes?? I cannot wait to try all of these. My daughters and my husband are all allergic to dairy so these are perfect. You are the new dessert goddess 🙂

I made this today and am scared i did something wrong. I’m hoping that it just needs to sit in the refrigerator for a couple hours. When I made it, it came out much thinner than i was expecting it to be. Also, is there a certain kind of nut butter you should use? I used almond butter. I’m scared that that was the problem. Any help?

This dip is sooooo good!!! What kind of oil can I use instead of the peanut butter? It was good, but just really want a plain choc. chip cookie dough taste.

What exactly is nut butter?

Just tried this last night, using walnut butter and almond milk!

At first, I was pretty skeptical. The dough tasted slightly “off” due to the chickpeas, and the texture was a bit running. I used a heaping 1/4 cup of brown sugar, which made things plenty sweet, but then I also added a little cocoa powder + extra oatmeal to try to fix the taste/texture. I plopped it in the fridge and checked it about later–thicker but still a little weird taste-wise. This morning, I gave it a second change.

Much improved! I could still taste the beans a teensy bit, but overall, it was much, much better. I ate it both by the spoonful (the best way), and spread on toast. The latter option was AMAZING! Almost streusel-like after taken out of the toaster oven. To anyone having problems with this recipe, I would suggest allowing it to refrigerate overnight 🙂

I made this dip for Christmas and served it with a fruit tray of apple slices, banana chunks, and persimmon slices. I added 1/2 tsp of molasses to the dip, because I’m crazy about that flavor in chocolate chip cookies. It was phenomenal! It’s hard to believe that chickpeas can make such a wonderful dessert-like dip! Thanks!!

Ok, I just made this and the snickerdoodle dip and I am in amazement how good they are! You can’t taste the chickpeas AT ALL! I even took the blender apart so I could get to the batter at the bottom and eat it! My only problem was, both turned out a bit runny, probably because I used oil instead of a nut butter. Do you recommend cutting down on the oil when you are replacing the nut butter with it, or maybe using coconut oil instead? I made some gluten free graham crackers to go along with these so my kids could have them too. Thank you for the great recipe!