This soft, gooey chocolate chip cookie pie is sweetened naturally with dates, and there’s no refined sugar required, not even maple syrup!
Date sweetened chocolate chip cookie pie
To celebrate a birthday, one often eats pie.
But what do you eat when the birthday is for the pie, itself?
While it may seem odd to commemorate such an occasion at all, my deep dish cookie pie, which came into existence exactly one year ago, is no ordinary pie.
After all, the recipe was featured on the ABC 5 O’Clock News.
Above, watch me make the original version: Deep Dish Cookie Pie
Added sugar free cookie pie
No, I didn’t really celebrate the birthday of a pie.
I’m not totally strange (unlike my dad, who celebrates the birthday of his car…).
But many people have requested a sugar-free version of my deep dish cookie pie. So finally, a whole year later, I’m posting the new recipe, heavily adapted from the original version yet just as delicious!
Have you tried the Deep Dish Cookie Pie yet?
Or any dessert recipe with beans: blondies, cookie dough dip, cookies, etc.?
If not, I recommend starting with this pie or my Chickpea Blondies or Protein Cookie Dough.
You may also like these: 100 Sugar Free Recipes
No Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie
Ingredients
- 2 cans white beans or chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 1 cup quick oats or almond flour
- 2 cups pitted dates (300g)
- 1/8 tsp pure stevia (or 1/4 cup unrefined sugar or xylitol)
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 cup applesauce or mashed banana
- 2/3 cup milk of choice
- 1/4 cup oil or nut butter of choice
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup chocolate chips (or sugar free chocolate chips)
InstructionsÂ
- Preheat oven to 350 F, and grease a 10-in springform pan (or two 8-in round pans). Combine all dry ingredients (except chips) in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, combine all wet ingredients. Put around 1/3 of the dry and 1/3 of the wet ingredients into a high-powered food processor like a Cuisinart (NOT a blender) and blend until super-smooth (where there are no date pieces to be seen). Scoop out into a bowl, and repeat the process twice more with the rest of the ingredients. (If you have an absolutely giant food processor, you can do it in two batches, as opposed to three.) Stir in the chocolate chips, and pour into the pan or pans. Bake 35-40 minutes (or 30 if you want it really gooey in the middle), then let cool at least 15 minutes before trying to remove it.View Nutrition Facts & Substitutions
Notes
Naturally sweetened healthy desserts
Is the stevia in the chocolate chip cookie pie liquid or powder?
Thanks for the great recipes!
Made this for my husband’s birthday and it is AMAZING! Vegans and non-vegans alike loved it. Minds were blown when I shared the ingredient list. (I used 1/4c brown coconut sugar since I’m a Stevia hater.) Thank you for this epic recipe.