A giant chocolate-chip cookie.
Can you think of anything better?
Right now, I can’t. But give me a second…
Nope. Still cant.
Presenting a healthier version of the famous Great American Cookie Cake. This one is whole-grain, gluten-free, and high in fiber. But don’t let those adjectives scare you away; the recipe has the stamp of approval from:
- A bunch of college guys
- Some very-picky preteen girls
- An entire kindergarten class
Giant Chocolate-Chip Cookie Cake
Inspired by the Deep Dish Cookie Pie
- 1/2 cup quick oats
- 2 tbsp unsweetened applesauce
- 1 can white beans or garbanzos (drained and rinsed) (250g)
- 1.5 tbsp oil (vegetable or coconut or canola)
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup brown sugar (You can try adding less, if you’re used to healthy desserts. Also, white sugar will work if you don’t have brown, but brown is recommended for the best taste. I can’t personally vouch for the results, but some commenters have reported success with xylitol, if you want it sugar-free.)
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Blend everything except the chips very well in a food processor (not a blender). Mix in chips, and pour into a greased or oiled pan. Cook at 350 F for around 20 minutes. Let stand at least 10 minutes before removing from the pan.
Or try the following recipe in a round pan for a PB & J Cookie Cake.
I’m also wondering if this would work with cinnamon and raisins, as an oatmeal-raisin cookie cake. But since this is a chocolate blog, I think next up will have to be:
A chocolate cookie, based off the Chocolate Brownie Batter Dip.
Question of the Day:
Have you ever had a cookie cake?
Great American cookie cakes were the thing when I was in middle school. (Well, those and Ugg boots with skirts.) Every single birthday party, school function, and social gathering… there’d be that ubiquitous cookie cake, sitting on the table amidst the chips and dip.
I remember my friend and I once got the “brilliant” idea of trying to take a Betty Crocker cookie mix and turn it into one giant homemade cookie cake. Sadly for us, our cookie didn’t make it. The poor thing burnt to a crisp on the outside and was simultaneously a gooey, messy mush in the middle.
Of course we ate it anyway!
Fun Party Idea: Set out a bunch of different icings and sprinkles, and let kids decorate their own slice. 🙂
Oh man I remember the days of cookie cakes. When I was little, I think we had them at every single birthday party. Love me some cookie cake.
I’ve never had a giant cookie cake, nonetheless a healthy cookie, so this post gives me all the more reason to try it out!
Have I ever had a cookie cake?? Ha! I’ve probably tasted at least a hundred in my life time. They were really popular when I was in school, plus both of my sisters frequently request them for their birthday cakes!
THIS LOOKS INCREDIBLE!! Like the ones from the cookie stores at the mall!!! You even have the icing down right!
A fresh baked cookie wda steaming hot cuppa coffee………. simply unputdownable!!!
yum!! those are so good. always tempted to get one for my birthday, but i KNOW how much fat, sugar and calories are in them. Yea, yea, its my birthday “live a little!”, but knowing me, Id eat the entire thing 😉
good thing you make healthier versions! and if college guys like it, it has to be good! haha
I made this for a weekend BBQ and it got the approval of a bunch of political science PhD’s! (They still don’t know it was semi-healthy for them.) 🙂
Haha that is awesome! 🙂
This totally didn’t work for me. I think you need a lot more to give it a good flavor. I am disapointed I wasted good ingredients on this. Next time I will add maybe a banana to the mix or nutella. I think it’s blatantly obvious it needs something more to it than beans and brown sugar for the main components, but I tried to trust the recipe. Will take all recipes with a grain of salt, no pun intended from now on.
I am sorry it didn’t work for you. Are you sure you followed the recipe exactly? It is not “blatantly obvious” that there is something wrong with the recipe. Just read all of these comments for proof! https://lett-trim.today/2011/05/31/deep-dish-cookie-pie/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
I usually don’t post, but I had to intervene:) I have made the deep dish cookie pie several times, which is just a double of this recipe and thus, twice as thick, and it’s awesome! In fact, I just finished one yesterday (it took a lot of will power to make it last for almost 24 hrs! I just didn’t want my bf to see what a pig I am hehe… err hope he’s not going to read this comment… ) Everyone’s taste buds are different, but my boyfriend could not detect beans in it. I can smell beany flavor when I make it, but when it’s done, it’s virtually undetectable even for someone who knows there are beans in it. It tastes like cookie dough, the one that usually has lots of fats and butter, only this one doesn’t! If you like cookie dough, you will like this. If not, why would you even make it? Lately, I started adding 2 tsp vanilla and cutting down on and subbing part of the sugar with nu-stevia and it still tastes great. I did make the recipe as is at first, and it rocks.
oops, I just realized that your recipe already calls for vanilla, and I was under the impression it didn’t use to, so ignore that. My bad!
Oh no, you are 100% correct that it didn’t used to be there! 🙂 I accidentally left the vanilla out of the posted recipe (even though I always included it when I made it), and only when I went to write THIS recipe did I realize it was missing!
And LOL at the part about “if you don’t like cookie dough…”
I wonder if there is a person in the world who doesn’t like cookie dough. Hopefully not! 😉
You say there is proof in the comments, but I don’t see many that have actually tried the recipe.
Oh sorry, I forgot I changed the comment settings. You need to click on “previous comments.” It only shows 65 comments per page now.
I used pomegranate apple sauce, so maybe that made it taste really bad.
Hmmm… if at all possible, I’d stick to regular! But then again, maybe this recipe just isn’t your thing. That’s ok too :).