Chickpea Blondies

Name: Chickpea Blondies
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 can chickpeas or white beans, (or 1 1/2 cups cooked); 1 tsp baking powder; 1/4 tsp each: salt and baking soda; 3/4 cup granulated sugar of choice ((Substitutions are listed above)); 1/3 cup flour (white, oat, spelt, sorghum, or 1/2 cup almond flour); 1/4 cup applesauce, mashed banana, or yogurt; 3 tbsp oil or 1/4 cup nut butter; 1/2 cup chocolate chips, or more if desired

By Katie HigginsUpdated Dec 05, 2021

4.98 from 304 votes

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These shockingly rich and gooey chocolate chip chickpea blondies are one of the most popular recipes I’ve ever posted!

White Bean Blondies
How to make chickpea blondies

Chickpea Blondies Recipe

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Even readers who don’t normally like healthy desserts LOVE these blondies!

Have you tried them yet???

In the years since first coming up with the recipe, I’ve served it probably over a hundred times to both strangers and friends, always with rave reviews.

No one can ever believe the ingredients or resist the charms of the moist and fudgy secretly healthy blondies.

Also try these Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

No dairy

No butter

No eggs!

White Bean Blondies

The recipe works with either chickpeas (garbanzo beans) or white beans like cannellini (white kidney beans) or great northern beans.

I like both versions equally, but many readers say they prefer using white beans because the resulting batter is smoother.

*Sugar note: You can use regular sugar, coconut sugar or date sugar, brown sugar, evaporated cane juice, or xylitol or granulated erythritol for sugar free blondies.

I once made a batch using stevia, which I thought were delicious. But my friends informed me they tasted like bars of soap. So make that substitution at your own risk!

For refined-sugar-free blondies, try these Sweet Potato Blondies

Above, watch the chickpea blondie recipe video

How to make chickpea blondies

Start by gathering all of the required ingredients.

If using canned beans instead of cooked, be sure to rinse and drain them very well.

(The drained liquid can actually be used to make Vegan Marshmallow Fluff!)

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Blend everything together except the chocolate chips until it resembles cookie dough.

I use and recommend a food processor for smoothest blending and best texture, but some readers say they’ve used a blender (making sure to stop the machine and stir the contents occasionally) with good results.

Stir the chocolate chips into the batter, and smooth into a greased or parchment-lined 8-inch pan. Add a few chocolate chips to the top if desired.

Bake 30 minutes on the oven’s center rack, then remove while they’re still a bit gooey, because they will firm up as they cool.

The Original Healthy Chocolate Chip Chickpea Blondie Recipe

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4.98 from 304 votes

Chickpea Blondies

By Katie Higgins

These secretly healthy chocolate chip chickpea blondies are so soft and gooey!

Cook Time: 30

Total Time: 30

Yield: – 15 blondies

Ingredients

▢ 1 can chickpeas or white beans, or 1 1/2 cups cooked
▢ 1 tsp baking powder
▢ 1/4 tsp each: salt and baking soda
▢ 3/4 cup granulated sugar of choice (Substitutions are listed above)
▢ 1/3 cup flour (white, oat, spelt, sorghum, or 1/2 cup almond flour)
▢ 1/4 cup applesauce, mashed banana, or yogurt
▢ 3 tbsp oil or 1/4 cup nut butter
▢ 1/2 cup chocolate chips, or more if desired

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Drain and rinse beans very well. Blend all ingredients (except chips) until very smooth in a good food processor (see not above about using a blender). Mix in chips, and scoop into a greased or parchment-lined 8×8 pan. Optional: you can stick some chocolate chips on top of the batter as well. Bake for 30 minutes. They'll look a little undercooked when you take them out, but they firm up as they cool.
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