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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Yum!! Another awesome idea! For savory dips, I love guacamole and salsa. 🙂
I REALLY want to add chocolate chips to this, is that bad? 🙂
Yes.
Obviously just kidding ;).
Love it! And you know my love for butter extract – I wouldn’t say optional, because to me it is what makes everything taste like cake batter! So good!
I LOVE Spinach and artichoke dip! The only one of your dips I’ve tried thus far was the cookie dough dip, and that too was amazing.
Speaking of which… I need to go find and make a vegan spinach and artichoke dip recipe… yum yum yum..
This looks so delicious, love the idea of this for a party! I bet people loved it! What did people at the party dip in it with? Or did everyone literally grab a spoon? 🙂 The party must have been a major success!
I put out a tray of graham crackers, sliced bananas, and strawberries. People mostly put some on their plate so they could double dip and better coat the fruit.
I knew this was coming!! Lol, you and your cake batter 😉
Does anybody make their own cashew butter? I tried a store brand and wasn’t too fond of it for some reason. But maybe making my own will be better. 🙂 Anybody have any good recipes?
Did you try raw or roasted cashew butter? If you didn’t like whatever one you tried, you could always buy the other type next time to see if you like that taste better. They taste very different from each other. 🙂
you could also try almond butter…
Ashley (EdiblePerspective.com) always has great recipes for home made nut butter. I’ve found that cashews turn into cashew butter very easily, either raw or lightly roasted, so you generally don’t need to add any oil, just a little salt. It’s always nicer to add a little melted coconut oil, IMO, but not necessary 🙂
Omigosh Katie, I love queso and if you made a healthy version of it you’d be my hero many times over!
it may not taste the same but ive seen lots of cheese sauces like that made with nutritional yeast instead of cheese. people use it on pasta and a bunch of other things. I bet katie could come up with one that would be a great substitute for queso
I made this and I think it tastes really good! http://differentpocket.com/2011/09/28/healthy-spicy-queso/
I love that these desserts are made with beans. I’m trying to get more protein, so to be able to eat dessert and get protein….huge plus! I just finished a slice of your deep dish cookie pie but subbed 2 bananas for the sugar, and although I can defenitely tell the difference without sugar, it’s still very tasty. I was planning on making chocolate chip pancakes for my daughter and I for breakfast, but I think this is healthier because it doesn’t have flour/butter, and the beans are actually good for you! I debated frying the batter like a pancake to see how it would turn out. I still may try that some time soon.
She has a sugar free version (but you probably know that ;)), which is super amazing! 🙂
I love how your friends don’t even want to know what’s in your recipes, that’s hilarious!
Just made this and it turned out great!!!! I used brown sugar for the sugar and added some cinnamon in there too. Mmm mm mmm!!! I had made one of the dips before using chickpeas and it tasted too much like that canned bean flavor. So, this time I made sure and drained them really well and it turned out much better. Thanks for the recipe!!!!
I’m so glad you tried it! My favorite part of blogging is when someone actually makes one of the things I’ve posted :).
Um, yes please!? Sprinkles make everything better
I wish I had an impromptu party to invite you to so you’d bring a bowl of this! It looks SO good! Maybe I’ll have to have an impromptu “party” with the fam later to try this out. It’s genius!
Katie oh Katie … my prayers have just been answered!!! I will make this (minus the sugar ..instead stevia and then Ill just have to play with the consistency a bit!) .. and I will add vanilla-butter flavor!! yessssss
Butter extract is my go to ingredient! I use it for everything! It’s that special ingredient that adds a cake batter taste without actually using cake batter! Question though…what kind of flavor does baking soda give?!? I thought this same thing with another recipe you did the other day, but now that I see it a second time I’m even more curious! Maybe I’ll take some time to search through your comments later to see if I can find the answer 🙂
The baking soda gives unbaked foods a little kick… It’s hard to describe the taste, but it’s kinda like a tang.
Oh, ok! I know *exactly* what you are talking about!
Where do you find butter extract?? I was very unsuccessful at finding it, so I used vanilla coffee creamer =)
I’ve found it at Harris Teeter, Publix, and Bilo too. I’ve also gotten it at Walmart too. Order it online if you can. Plain Vanilla coffee creamer won’t do the trick. The flavor is too distinct. I have gotten close results with vanilla Caramel coffee creamer though… But butter extract really is the best for sure!
You’ve done it again! Created something so perfect for my tastes (you see, I’m NOT a chocoholic…I know, I know!) that I want to lick the screen. 🙂