Make your own soft, gooey, and secretly healthy deep dish cookie pie for dessert tonight, with melted chocolate chips in each unbelievable bite!
Table of Contents
Deep dish chocolate chip cookie pie
What is even better than a warm chocolate chip cookie?
If you answered, “Katie, nothing is better than a warm chocolate chip cookie,” you’ve obviously never met a chocolate chip cookie pie…
Especially not when it is topped with Almond Milk Ice Cream or Keto Ice Cream, or my personal favorite dairy free Coconut Ice Cream Recipe.
Serve the showstopping dessert for Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, graduations, birthday parties, or the Fourth of July.
And prepare to be amazed at just how much you can love a dessert.
You may also like these Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
The best party dessert of all time
I could sit here and tell you about how I was in charge of dessert for our neighborhood summer party.
I could tell you about my desire to impress the neighbors with a sinful tasting finale and then shock them by revealing the dessert was really not so sinful after all.
And I could tell you how this desire became reality when my dessert was the single biggest hit of the party, with everyone raving about it.
One guest even hired me to make a pie for her husband’s birthday in June.
But really, you don’t want to know all of this, do you? You just want the recipe!
Also try the popular Protein Cookie Dough
Deep dish cookie pie recipe video
Above, watch the step by step recipe video
Healthy dessert deep dish cookie pie
In comparison to your standard cookie pie, with its plethora of butter, eggs, and white flour, the above version is a much healthier alternative, while still tasting just as temptingly decadent and delicious.
Plus, you get a full five grams fiber and over six grams of protein per slice, thanks to the whole grain oats and chickpeas.
And I promise no one can tell that these ingredients are in there.
Need proof? Just read the thousands of positive reader reviews on this recipe post!
Depending on the specific ingredients you choose, the cookie pie includes options to be dairy free, nut free, oil free, no sugar added, gluten free, and vegan.
The chocolate pie is a real crowd pleaser.
Even people who are not used to eating healthy desserts will rave about the recipe.
Imagine chocolate chip cookie dough in the form of a pie.
Side note: If you make a half recipe in an eight inch baking pan, you can have a healthy cookie cake like the ones at the Great American Cookie Co in the mall!
And if you make one fourth of the recipe, you can even put it in a mini springform pan for a baby chocolate chip cookie pie.
Extra chocolate chips? Add them to Healthy Banana Bread
Chocolate chip cookie pie ingredients
The recipe calls for chickpeas, quick oats or almond flour, pure vanilla extract, baking soda, salt, applesauce or yogurt, nut butter or oil, sweetener of choice, and of course chocolate chips.
You can use white beans, such as cannellini or great northern beans, instead of the chickpeas. Garbanzo beans are just another name for chickpeas, so they are also fine.
If you want to use dried garbanzos instead of canned, substitute about 500 grams total of cooked garbanzo beans for the two standard size cans (15 ounces each).
An equal amount of canned pumpkin, roasted sweet potato puree, or even mashed banana can be swapped for the applesauce. You may also use plain or Greek yogurt.
Rolled oats or instant oats work as swaps in place of quick oats. If you wish to use all purpose flour or spelt flour, decrease the amount to three fourths of a cup.
Add brown sugar for the most authentic Toll House chocolate chip cookie flavor. If you prefer a healthier option, I also love the results with unrefined coconut sugar.
Pure maple syrup, honey, agave, or sugar free xylitol work as well.
For a neutral flavor, go with either almond butter or cashew butter or the oil option (vegetable, sunflower, or coconut oil). Or use peanut butter if you want a chocolate chip peanut butter cookie pie.
How to make the recipe
The first step is to open and fully drain the cans of beans. Rinse them well.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
If using rolled oats, pulse them alone in a food processor. Stop when they turn into a fine flour consistency.
Add all remaining ingredients except for the chocolate chips to the food processor, and blend until the mixture is completely smooth like cookie dough.
Tip: I highly recommend going with a food processor over a blender if one is available. While some readers mention using a blender successfully, my experience is that the texture and taste of this cookie pie is far superior when prepared in a food processor.
Turn off the machine, and stir in the chocolate chips by hand. Stir in a handful of shredded coconut or chopped walnuts or pecans as well if you wish.
Spread the cookie dough batter evenly into a greased nine inch springform pan. A ten inch pan works too.
Optionally, sprinkle more chocolate chips on top or swirl Homemade Nutella into the unbaked pie with a spoon.
Bake on the center rack of the oven for thirty five minutes. Then remove the pan from the oven and let it cool for an additional ten minutes.
Take off the springform top, and serve the deep dish chocolate chip cookie cake hot, topped with ice cream or whipped cream and hot fudge sauce.
Tips for storing the deep dish cookie pie dessert
Let the pie cool fully before covering it. Make sure to leave an opening in the container or cover so that extra moisture can escape.
You may store the chocolate chip dessert at room temperature overnight or while transporting it to a party or event.
After a day, I recommend storing in an airtight container. Due to the perishable ingredients, it is best to keep the recipe refrigerated when not serving.
Or for an almost instant cookie pie whenever you are craving soft homemade chocolate chip cookies, slice and freeze leftovers. Thaw in the microwave or in a warm oven or toaster oven before serving.
However, once you taste this incredible deep dish chocolate chip cookie treat, it is highly unlikely you will have any leftovers!
Deep Dish Cookie Pie
Ingredients
- 2 cans white beans or garbanzo beans (500g total, once drained)
- 1 cup quick oats or almond flour
- 1/4 cup applesauce or yogurt
- 3 tbsp oil or 1/4 cup nut butter
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 cup brown sugar or unrefined sugar (click for a Sugar Free Cookie Pie)
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Drain and rinse beans very well. Blend everything except the chocolate chips very well in a food processor. Mix in chips, and pour the batter into a greased pan. I normally use either a 10 or 9-inch springform pan. Cook at 350 F for 35 minutes. Let stand at least 10 minutes before removing from the pan. Serve hot, or let cool. Storage tips are included above.*Some commenters have had success using a blender, but I feel that the texture comes out much better when using a food processor.View Nutrition Facts
Video
Notes
More Popular Party Recipes
anyone who labels something they aren’t used to as “stupid” is a complete moron themselves. And you’re right! Asians use a variety of beans in many desserts 🙂 Black beans, mung beans, azuki beans. They’re delicious!
Your little muffins look fabulous, I may try the recipe out sometime soon. And your heart shaped doilies from the previous post are ADORABLE!
– Am
I really want to find Adzuki beans! Someone left a comment that they’d work really well for red velvet blondies!
They’re soooooo readily available here! Both tinned in syrup, the paste form and raw. Let me know if you really can’t find them, I’d be more than happy to ship some over to you!
Oh my gosh, you are TOO sweet!!!
I haven’t looked at my Asian market yet. I’m thinking they’ll probably have some. Hey, it’s a good excuse to go grocery shopping :).
Oh my gosh, these are fantastic! Katie, you are an inspiration. I used garbanzo beans, but since white beans are lower in fat, how does it change the texture? Also, did you ever post that ice cream recipe? Our cookie pie is long gone but it’s hot here…
Hmmm… I used garbanzos once and white beans once and couldn’t detect a difference in texture.
Ice cream coming tomorrow! I hope! LOL I need to finish writing the post!
Oh Chocolate-Covered Katie, how much do I love thee? Let me count the ways: 20 (number of delicious servings for this epic deep dish cookie). My boyfriend loves cookie pies and doesn’t (think he) likes “healthier” recipes. He was wrong, he can’t get enough of this pie! I decreased the sugar by 1/4 of a cup, subbed pumpkin for the applesauce, and added 2 t of vanilla extract, and it was delicious. Thank you so much for a tasty (and easy!) recipe.
Aww and now I love you too, for your kind words… and I could not stop smiling when I read the part about your bf liking the pie. My favorite desserts are ones where EVERYone likes them, not just people who like healthy foods :).
Katie, I can’t believe how good this turned out! I was a bit skeptical, but I knew when I tasted the raw dough that this recipe was a winner! My family is very much the white-flour-loving, traditional dessert type and they loved this and would never believe it was made out of chickpeas! I added a bit of vanilla and replaced the canola oil with olive oil… still turned out fabulous! Katie, I will never doubt one of your recipes again… for anyone who hasn’t made this yet, MAKE IT!
🙂 🙂 🙂 This comment made me smile!
I’m gonna make this in mini muffin form tonight! 🙂
Do you think stevia or maple syrup (or agave, etc) would work in place of the brown sugar? I don’t even own any and am not too fond of sugar 🙂
Hey girl!
Yes, a lot of other commenters/readers have made both the blondies and the cookie pie with agave or maple syrup or subbed some of the sugar for stevia. 🙂
Oh. My. God. I just made this, putting the batter in muffin cups, and I don’t think I’ll ever make normal cookies again. This is The. Best. Ever.
Oh no…I just tried this recipe today.. Is it super horrible that I’ve already eaten a quarter of it myself?! (At least I cut the recipe in half…) Oh boy, YUM! I cannot wait to give this to my husband because I know he’ll love it.. and he has recently told me not feed him any of “that vegan stuff”… 🙂 Since I know “that vegan stuff” is perfectly fine (and delicious!), I chose not to obey that rule.. lol. Thanks for the delicious recipe, Katie!!
LOL!
This sounds amazing! I love making desserts that are kind of healthy. Baking with beans is so fun because you can’t tell they’re in there but it’s so much better for you. Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe!