The sprinkles made me do it.
Sprinkles can be very convincing.
Yesterday, one of my friends threw an impromptu party, and we were all supposed to bring a dish to share. Since a lot of people came straight from work, there ended up being an overwhelming number of packaged hummus containers, spinach dips, and pre-cut veggie trays. However, one dish stood out from all the others:
A giant bowl of buttery vanilla cake batter.
Cake batter healthy enough that you can eat it with a spoon.
Cake Batter Cookie Dough Dip
(can be gluten-free)
Recipe found here: Recipes with Beans.
- 1 1/2 cups chickpeas or white beans (1 can) (250g after draining)
- 3 tbsp cashew butter or a butter-type spread like Earth Balance (See nutrition link below, for all substitution notes on this recipe) (43g)
- 1 tbsp applesauce (or omit and increase cashew butter to 1/4c) (15g)
- 2 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp baking soda (to everyone who’s been asking: this is for flavor)
- heaping 1/8 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup xylitol or sugar (or coconut sugar or evaporated cane juice) (160g)
- 1/4 tsp butter extract (adds a cake-batter flavor, but you can omit) (It is vegan.)
- 1/4 cup quick oats (20g) (or ground flax or rolled oats, or even 1/4c cake mix)
- optional: sprinkles!
Drain and rinse beans very well. Blend all ingredients in a food processor (not a blender) until very, very smooth. (If you must use a blender, please read my notes in the “nutrition info” link below, before attempting.) Dip apple slices or crackers or pretzels, spread on a banana or toast or pancakes or cookies, or eat with a spoon!
What’s your favorite party dip?
Spinach-artichoke dip? Seven Layer Dip? Or something sweet, like pumpkin or cookie dough dip? Here in Texas, queso is really popular. And of course guacamole.
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I made this just now for 5 kids ages 9-2 yrs and they love it. They think I’m letting them eat cookie dough
This looks good but I am not able to have beans or chick peas due to the level of carbs. I may have to experiment and find a substitute
I just tried this with butter in place of the nut butter and it tasted really good! Not like bean at all. In fact, next time I would even lower the amount of sugar. Overall really tasty, though. I had two spoonfull’s with breakfast 🙂
I saw the nutrition information and was wondering what a serving size is for this awesome recipe 🙂
I made this with xylitol–and woah! It was sickeningly sweet. I had to double all other ingredients just to tame it. Next time I’ll add sugar to taste.
This is the first recipe I’ve tried from your website, despite drooling over most of them repeatedly! I have to say, it tastes amazing! Mine isn’t exactly cake batter, since I’ve run out of vanilla flavouring (shock horror!) so used almond, but it’s still delicious. I made a 1/4 of the recipe and thinned it out with a little water… I may or may not be now eating it with some cherries 😉 Thanks! xx
Just made this, except i didnt have quick oats or oat flour or even cake mix :/ i used a bit of sweetened puffed rice cereal instead. I like the finished product, but i think my substitution made it a bit.. Brown sugary tasting. Oh, and i used coconut sugar. I think ill make it again but tweak it a bit. However, its a huge hit with the fiance 🙂 ‘what IS this?’, he inquired, taking a hesitant bite, and then another and another not so hesitant bite. ‘cake batter dip’, is all i said. ‘its not bad’, he replied, through a mouthful of dip. :p He doesnt need to know theres healthy stuff like chickpeas in there 😉
I just mjade this after trying the snickerdoodle dip and it is great! My daughter who is 8 is my second guinea pig (after myself) for all of your desserts, we have also tried the deep dish cookie and the snickerdoodle blondies. We both love all of them and it’s nice to have some “treats” that I can give her frequently and not feel like I’m rotting her teeth out. She thinks I’ve gone crazy and she’s reaping the benefits.
I just tried this recipe – love it! I didn’t have any cashew butter so I used 2 tbsp coconut oil and 1 tbsp peanut butter so neither the coconut flavour nor the peanut flavour was too strong. So good!
Hey Katie have you ever use this as a cupcake frosting and if not what would you use to in replacement so the consistently isn’t as thick???:-)
Sorry, I’ve never done it. Sounds like a fun idea, though!