Make your own soft, gooey, and secretly healthy deep dish cookie pie for dessert tonight, with melted chocolate chips in each unbelievable bite!
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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!
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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
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So I made this awhile ago (see my bored/baking comment above…lol), and it was so good, I posted this recipe on my FB page. It has seriously gone viral among my mom friends! SO many of them have made it…it is a HUGE hit! We all love you for making healthy treats we can give our kids! 🙂
So I made this last night (halved everything, though, for a smaller version) as a thank you to my best friends throwing me a surprise bachelorette party this weekend. They won’t tell me where I’m going – so I won’t tell them what’s in it! (Until after they eat it all! lol)
I MADE THESE TODAY!!!! 😀 😀 😀 As mini- cookie pies. They were delicious! Asians always add add beans to desserts so I was so excited to try it. My mum tasted it and said: you put bean paste in there? Yeah, busted.
I bought all the ingredients today… then realised I didn’t have a food processor to do the recipe! So I used my budget blender and it worked! Though the batter wasn’t very smooth but rather chunky. The cookie pies ended up with uneven top but who cares? Its delicious 😀
Just wrote this comment to tell everyone you CAN use a BLENDER to do the recipe! And I think it’ll be even more indulgent with your peanut butter icing or your whipped cream! And especially if these are cold! 😀
Oh and I only got 4 4-inch in diameter, 1 inch in depth cookie pies from 1/2 the recipe! Am I doing something wrong?
Aww yay! So glad it worked in your blender :). I’m not really sure about your measurement question. I got a paper-plate size cookie cake from 1/2 the recipe.
Oops! Sorry for spamming! I thought my first comment didn’t appear! Can you ignore/delete it because I added stuff to the second one?
I have one more thing to add! I thing the sugar can be reduced to two-third of the original amount because the addition of chocolate chips (even semi-sweetened varieties which I used!) makes it really sweet. It was also SUPER filling! I had 1/4 batch of the recipe you gave for dinner and felt sooo full 😀
This is so AMAZING! I’ve already baked this twice this week. It even works good in cookie form.. just plopped onto a cookie sheet and baked at 375 for 11 minutes. Thank you so much..I will forever keep this recipe!!
Could this work with pinto beans, instead of garbanzo’s? That’s what I have right now — anyone tried it?
I know it’ll work with white beans, but I have no idea how pintos will taste in it. If you do try it, let me know how it goes!
Sorry, but I think blended pintos will taste like refried beans.
I plan to make this for a get together this weekend!
But i’m wondering–for the chickpeas, by 500g do you mean that’s the total in BOTH cans of chickpeas, or 500 grams per can?
For both cans, once drained (250 per can) 🙂
I just had to try this… immediately! I served it up to my grown son, who would have refused even a bite if he had known the ingredients, along w/ his girlfriend and they LOVED IT!! As did I. I felt like I was being bad… but I wasn’t! I have a BLENDTEC and love it… especially for immediately gratifying ice cream. I sliced some frozen banana’s and pulsed w/coconut cream (the solid from the coconut milk can) and a little of the liquid from the coconut milk can w/some vanilla. It was awesome and I find the texture to be very ice cream like w/out needing to refreeze it. The chocolate chip pie was awesome! Thanks for a great recipe.
I had a thought about a much earlier comment I read from a mother saying that the beans caused her a houseful of gassy family members. I know that gas is a by-product from the bacteria in our gut eating what we’ve put in there. It seems logical to me that someone who eats healthy food on a regular basis has bacteria that is used to that diet and doesn’t create much of a “stink”, but someone whose diet is introduced to healthy foods less often may have a different kind of bacteria that is not use to processing it, thereby causing the stink. I’m not a doctor, but I have noticed the more healthy foods you eat, the more gas and digestion problems in general seem to subside. Not a “fun” comment, but maybe it will help 🙂
Absolutely delicious. I subbed wheat germ for the quick oats, and used slightly less garbanzo beans. This tastes like a decadent blondie! Totally making this again!