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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I made the other version this past weekend and everyone LOVED it! (We used graham crackers and celery sticks for dippers.) As I was adding in the 3/4 cup of brown sugar I decided next time I should try to make it with dates as a sugar free version. It’s like you read my mind! I am definitely addicted to sweets and this recipe looks like such a great alternative.
BTW, my sister tried the original recipe a while back using canned chickpeas and didn’t care for it. The chickpea taste was too overpowering for her. When I made it, I used dried chickpeas that I soaked and cooked myself. I also added maple extract after reading the comments on your first post and she thought it was fantastic. I think I’ll stick with cooking my own chickpeas from now on.
Perfect! I was looking for a comment like this to see if anyone did that! Canned chickpeas did not sound good to me, so I bought some out of the bulk section at the grocery store. I will have to try it ! 🙂 Thanks
Cool, thanks for pointing this out. I was actually out grocery shopping this evening and couldn’t decide between purchasing canned chickpeas or just getting bulk dried and making them myself. The cans were really cheap (big weekend sale) and a lot less work, but I know that I easily detect them when baked in anything, even if I’m eating something that I didn’t make and I’m not aware of what the ingredients are. I’m going to go back tomorrow and get the dried beans.
I was wondering about that! I made the original version with canned chickpeas as well. And, although I rinsed them well and tried to get a lot of the skins off, it really wasn’t a very tasty treat. It tasted weird and not like cookie dough at all, unfortunately. I think I even tried adding MORE sugar just to try to salvage it. Now I want to buy them dry (less salt maybe?) and make this sugar free recipe!
Has anyone tried using white beans? I wonder how that turns out.
I made the brown sugar version with canned white beans and it was phenomenal! 🙂
I quit eating regular sugar years ago. Then I went to Agave. Quit that and try to use dates as sweetener OR coconut secrets products.
As usual, your posts always look better than green juice! And I skipped the greens in my smoothie this morning, just because I really wanted something, um, sweet!
Gotta juice tonight!!
Can’t wait to try this! I’m obsessed with the original…
Oh no…I only have 1 can of garbanzo beans and I have to choose between making this and falafels 🙁 Oh boy. This sounds so good!
Oooh this version looks great, Katie! Great idea with the soaked dates, ya can’t even see em in there, wowza. I don’t have white or brown sugar at my house, but don’t think it’s demonic, just not beneficial and something I can live very happily without.
i’m totally trying this!! dates are def sweet, so i think this will be a great substitution for the sugar. i also think they would be great for helping to overpower the bean taste. i’m going to the store now to grab some dates! i just finished up a batch of your “cookie dough” i had made with pumpkin… yum!
I know exactly what you’re getting at! Sugar is like a parasite, if you will. When you eat it, a lot, it becomes a fungus in the body. Your body starts craving it, and needs more sugar to feed on. The more you pile on, the harder it is to burn, making you lethargic and gain weight. What a lot of people don’t know is, many times CANCER IS CAUSED BY A SUGARY DIET! Many times cancer can be traced back to the candy bars you just could not resist. Or maybe the slices of cake you knew you shouldn’t have. Now please don’t take this and cut out ALL sugar. A little bit is fine. A little goes a loooooong way. Too much of it goes too far. So sugar itself isn’t much of a problem- it’s the way you use it that is the problem. I used to have a HUGE sweet tooth- but i trained myself to get into other flavors. Savor your food more. Never eat sugar at night! Eat spicy foods- it gives your health a real kick! But do not go off at once. In a few days, you will be back to high sugar. Decrease your intake gradually, and eat more fruit, which is naturally sweet. You’ll be good to go!
So sorry for the long comment Katie. I hope some people will read it and kick the sugar habit.
Oh Sarah, you are too cute! Long comments are my favorite :).
I tend to write the way I talk… i’m one of those people who jump from one subject to the next without a breather. Ya know like ” Oh i loved the new dress Nikki was wearing and retainers are uncomfortable and tofu is NOT edible rubber and yada yada yada” And you’d be like staring at me and go, ” Um……………” And there i go again. Yea, i’ll shut up
I’ve been treating sugar like an addiction (excluding naturally occurring fruit and milk sugar). I read that the best and easiest way is to quit cold turkey. I would say that for me, that has been the safest way thus far (roughly 1 month in). What you don’t realize is that after being off sugar for a bit, your tastes start to change and you stop craving it. If I had ice cream right now, I’d go back to craving it and having to talk myself down from the cravings. It’s LARGE part mental. In a lot of ways, it’s actually easier to “Just say no” than it is to say “Just one”.
Oh, yum!! Glad you linked to it – I would’ve missed it otherwise! Chickpeas – you are too creative!!
What bugs me is when people think that fruit-sugar and sugar-sugar are the same thing nutritionally, and tell me to avoid fruit/dried fruit. No, I am not doing that. There is a difference between white refined sugar and a deliciously ripe satsuma…
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with any kind of sugar, but it annoys me anyway.
Katie, have you ever tried this dip with your carmelized banana trick?
I haven’t… it sounds like it’d be an awesome idea! I did try the brownie batter dip with banana in place of the sugar, and I liked that one :).