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 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 :).
Awesome recipe! That’s funny that the original one went viral on Friday night, because that’s right when I was making it for the first time…I’m just on top of all the trends.
Have to ask – since you don’t really crave sugar, which version do you prefer? 🙂 I’m starting to think about the holiday parties that will start up next month – I think would be a delicious addition to the menu (or to bring with you) for a party. It’s honestly going to be hard to choose between all your recipes though. 🙂
Honestly… this isn’t my favorite recipe! LOL It’s a real crowd-pleaser, but it’s just not MY personal favorite. I do’t really have a preference, and I’m not sure what others would say because I haven’t gotten a chance to bring the sugar-free one to any get-togethers. I am curious to see which one people would like better!
I love the honesty! 🙂
I completely agree with you about craving more as you eat it. I eat a really love sugar diet usually just because my body craves savory like none other. I’ve gradually reduced my sugar intake organically because my body just has craved it less and less. This dip looks fantastic, dates are an awesome natural sweetener that don’t leave me lethargic, light headed, or dragging like normal sugar leaves me. Do you find you crave more sugar when you eat something with stevia? Or does your body sort of recognize the difference?
I don’t really eat much stevia either… to be honest, I don’t really monitor my cravings that closely lol. So I really can’t tell ya!
Wow! I’m gonna have to try this soon! You do such cool stuff!
BTW – have a look at The Spunky Coconut web site today…..she has a recipe for Coconut Cream Dipped Strawberries…….thought you’d like it!
Ooh ok! Thanks for the tip!
I don’t necessarily limit the amount of sugar I eat – I just try to be conscious of it. I really should start to limit it 🙂
I make something very similar to this called High Protein Cookie Dough…and I eat it with no added sweetener, of course, and I add more peanut butter! Peanut butter is kinds naturally sweet I think, so it has greeeeat flavor! YUM!
And, I don’t watch the amount of sugar I eat because I naturally don’t eat a lot of sugar (duh!). My body has a built-in sugar detector….whenever I eat too much in the form of fruit-I will know! So…I don’t have a problem with that 😀
Wow what a depressing life ….
I LOVE your blog. That is all :).
Awww thank you!!
I LOVE sweet stuff and have the biggest sweet tooth EVER!! For me its fine in moderation, but mostly I don’t have a lot of sugar, just natural sugars and stuff! 🙂
And I am making that TOMORROW and I can’t wait!! Looks AMAZING!! 😀
P.S. Yaaay for it going viral!! You deserve for the world to see your genius!!
I made the original last night with Splenda brown sugar mix and soy milk. I didn’t have Amy vanilla extract, but I did have lemon. It was tasty enough with the substitutions; I bet it’s AMAZING with real brown sugar and vanilla. I have to agree, though, about the canned chickpeas. They give it an odd texture.
I really adore this recipe, I made the other kind and tweeked it just a bit and this reminds me to make it again. 🙂 Because I loved it.
I do think sugar is ok in MOD. I think the less the better though. it has been proven to be highly addicitive and a diet high in sugar is so bad for the cells of the body.
I’m with you on condoning sugar, actually. I don’t let myself go overboard, but I almost always have a sweet treat every day (and no, I’m not talking about the over-cliched single square of dark chocolate most bloggers “indulge” in). A small cupcake, a muffin, a big ol’ cookie…gotta have something with a little sugah! Same with salt – they aren’t the best for you, but I don’t feel the need to set an upper limit for what I have. Just a touch is enough, and my body will let me know when Ive had too much!
LOL agreed! One square of chocolate is a bite, not a snack!
I was SO happy when I saw some non-vegan friends posting links on facebook to your deep-dish cookie dough pie recipe. Congrats on all your success with the blog! I love desserts and “sweets” but like you I obstain from sugar. I would get really bad crashes hours later and sometimes suffer for days with poor digestion. I actually love the taste of NuNaturals stevia so I don’t miss my “sweet”. The cookie dough dip is one of my favorite recipes of yours (right along with the coconut butter fudge and cashew banana cream cheese frosting – love my fats!) so I can’t wait to make this!!!!
I am with you; I like the taste of that one. But I still wouldn’t serve the dip with only stevia for a party. My friends said it tastes like soap! 😕