It is so crazy how much this healthy and sugar free cookie dough dip not only looks like cookie dough but actually tastes so much like real cookie dough!
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No Sugar Cookie Dough Dip
On Friday night, my original Chickpea Cookie Dough Dip went viral, with over 2 millions views!
It’s been such a wild past few days.
Thank you to everyone who’s been sharing it!
With so many more people finding that post, I spent yesterday afternoon doing something I’d meant to do for a long time: creating a sugar-free version of the cookie dough dip.
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Since posting the original recipe, I’ve received many, many requests for a sugar free option.
But until now, the only suggestion I had was to replace the sugar with stevia.
I do not recommend using only stevia in this recipe; very few people will think the result tastes good.
Instead, here is a brand new sugar free version that does taste good and is sweetened only with fruit!
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Above – watch me make the original version
Do you ever watch the amount of sugar you eat?
A lot of people will probably disagree with me on this, but I do not believe sugar is evil. I think it is fine in moderation for the general population.
However, it seems like the more sugar you eat, the more you crave.
Then it becomes a problem, because – if you are anything like me – too much sugar makes you feel sick and lethargic.
When I was in high school and hated being skinny, I put myself on an incredibly high sugar diet that included multiple slices of layer cake and pints of ice cream every day.
It was super fun for a while… until I went off to college and started eating even more sugar, with very few vegetables finding their way into my daily diet.
I was tired all the time. Once I realized the source of my lethargy was all the sugar, I drastically changed my eating habits.
Now, since I eat much less sugar, I find that I do not crave desserts that are anywhere near as sweet.
People always ask why I have a dessert blog if I do not like sweets. The answer is that I still do love desserts; I just like them creamy and rich, not sweet and saccharine.
I might not like sugar, but I sure do love dessert!
*Chocolate version here: Chocolate Hummus
Sugar Free Cookie Dough Dip
Ingredients
- 1 can chickpeas or white beans (For low-carb, try this Keto Cookie Dough Dip)
- heaping 1/8 tsp salt
- heaping 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1 tbsp + 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup nut butter of choice
- 1 and 1/4 cups pitted dates (I used SunMaid, from a regular grocery store)
- 1/3 cup chocolate chips OR Sugar Free Chocolate Chips
- 2 tbsp oats or almond flour, optional
- milk of choice as needed (I used a few tbsp)
Instructions
- *Using peanut butter will give a peanut butter cookie dough flavor. If you prefer a more neutral taste, you can use almond butter, cashew butter, regular butter spread, coconut butter, or oil.In a bowl, cover the dates with 1/2 cup water. Let this sit for at least 8 hours. Then add all ingredients (including the dates' soaking liquid), except chocolate chips, to a food processor (for best results, not a blender) and process until very smooth. This can be served as a dessert dip, as a spread (maybe in between apple slices or crackers?), eaten with a spoon, mixed into oatmeal, stuffed into cupcakes, or even used to top pancakes!
Notes
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Quick question can I use the dough to bake cookies with and if so what temp would I set the oven to and for how long?
I’d say 350… but you’ll have to experiment to find how long. Let me know how it goes! 🙂
I have made this twice now, once with soy nut butter and once with nutella. The nutella spread tastes like no bake cookies, which is I love. However, I was wondering what kind of nut butter you used in the original recipe? The soy nut butter did not work out well for me.
Thanks,
Monica
I used peanut butter, but I like the slight pb taste. (I used Whole Foods brand, salted)
Hi Katie! This looks absolutely delicious!! I can wait to try it! Do you by any chance have the nutritional information on it?
Can I leave out the dates?
Try the original version. It has no dates :).
Thank you soooooo much for this delicious recipe! I have made it twice now – both the sugar-free version and the original. They were both utterly divine! I have been looking for ways to give my kids (and myself) treats without feeding them garbage that’s loaded with sugar and totally devoid of nutrients! This is a fantastic kid-friendly treat: high in protein and fiber and deliciousness! You have given a gift to mothers everywhere! THANK YOU!
What the nutritional info on this sugar free cookie dough dip?
Swimmer, I entered it into the SparkPeople.com recipes to get the info. My method declared it 8 servings, omitted the oats and milk – and I used regular milk-chocolate chips. You can click the “Create a Recipe Makeover” button to add/remove ingredients specific to how you made it – and it will recalculate.
Here’s the link to how I entered it:
http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=2001443
235 cal, 8.3 g fat, 0 mg chol, 69.8 mg sodium (dried chickpeas, NOT canned), 42.5 g carbs, 9 g fiber, 5.5 g protein
Wow!
Amazing… that you would call a recipe with one and a quarter cup of dates “no sugar.” Do you realize how much sugar is in that recipe?
Check this out for the real skinny on dates: http://blog.healinggourmet.com/dates-for-diabetes/
What is the nutritional info on this recipe?
Hi Katie,
I was wondering if I could use prunes instead of dates in the cookie dough? And if I did would I need to soak them like the dates? Thanks for your help. I am excited to try this recipe.
Katie-
First off, thank you so much for all of your recipes! This is the first one I’ve made and it was a huge hit! I put a picture of it on fb and got a ton of requests for the recipe so I linked them to your site. It was quick, delicious and i love that it’s healthy too. A quick note- I made it using PB2 (mixed w water before adding it to the food processor) and it worked really well! I did that bc it has about 1/4 the calories of reg peanut butter and makes it a little more guilt-free for me 🙂 thanks again, I can’t wait to try your other recipes!
I am so glad you liked it, Whitney… and so happy to know it works with pb2. People ask me for ways to use that all the time, and now I can point them to your comment! 🙂
Hey! Just made this. I actually halved the recipe to see if I’d like it. I used homemade chickpeas (I think next time I’ll cook them a little longer for this recipe – forgot what I was using them for while i was cooking them – duh!). Turned out GREAT!! I used half the dates and date soak called for, since I halved the recipe, but found it a little sweet (for my taste….). Do you think it would taste really ‘chickpea-ish’ if I scaled back on the dates for the next batch? I also used cocoa nibs instead of chocolate chips. YUM!!!
Sorry, I don’t know :-?.
I just tried this and am in heaven!! I was a little hesitant but using the soaked dates sweetened it perfectly! I also am eating the Paleo or primal diet so I used almond butter, almond milk and instead of oats I used the same amount of almond meal and it worked like a charm!! Thank you for being inventive and trying to create healthy versions of the classic favorites, my kids will love it as long as I don’t eat it all before they get home from school!! 🙂 Can’t wait to stalk your site and make more healthy goodies!!
Hi! Can you explain to me what this means: 1/4 cup nut butter (You can get away with using only 3 T. If you use peanut butter, some people say it has a slight “pb cookie dough” taste, so you can sub oil if you don’t want that.)
This means I can just use oil like olive oil?
Thanks. Sorry if this sounds idiotic.
You can… I’d suggest a milder oil, though, like veg oil or canola. Or a sweet one like coconut oil.
I was totally skeptical at first…and then it was AWESOME!!!!! I will definitely be making this again, but with oatmeal, cinnamon, and raisins. Thanks for posting this!!!
I just wanted to say I made this in the version of truffles and dipped them in chocolate for a girls night I attended recently, and no one believed me that they were made of chick peas! They are my favourite non-guilty pleasure! 🙂
Katie!!! It worked! I’m so happy!! 🙂 Thanks!