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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Hi Katie! I’m curious about the baking soda–what’s its role in stomething like this that is unbaked? Thanks so much!
I used to eat spoonfuls of raw cookie dough as a child – I’m glad I never got salmonella! I was looking at healthier ways to get the same satisfaction and stumbled across this recipe. Since we’re not baking the dip, what’s the purpose of the baking soda?
I have been watching my refined sugar intake, opting for erythritol and stevia (Truvia) or lower GI sweeteners like honey and maple syrup. I’ve noticed that since switching to these sweeteners, eating refined sugar gives me a HUGE headache immediately! I still love the taste of sweets and chose to have a couple bites of a commercially prepared cookie earlier today. Within minutes I noticed the headache coming on. Then, for the rest of the day, I was insatiable!
The baking soda adds a cookie dough flavor. Sounds strange but it’s true!
Do you have to use dates? Or can you substitute with a different kind of sugar (stevia, agave… Etc).
Sounds delicious! Not exactly sugar free since dates are very high in sugar, but at least they have some nutrients in them as well.
Loved this recipe! I had to change it a bit though, because I could still taste the chickpeas when I followed it word by word. So, at the end, I ended up adding maybe 1/4 cup of roasted oat flour, 1/4 cup of almonds and 1/2 cup of almond milk which disguised the chickpeas nicely 🙂
Hi Katie –
I love your food! It has saved me since I found out I am allergic to gluten! Anyways, I couldn’t find any nutrition labels for this sugar free cookie dough dip. Do you have them? I would so appreciate it!
Thanks,
Bridget
What are you favorite kind of vegan chocolate chips?
This may have been asked, but I’d like to add natural, unsweetened protein powder to this. Any suggestions as to amount and how to adjust this recipe accordingly? Thank you!
This may have been asked, but I’d like to add natural, unsweetened protein powder to this. Any suggestions as to amount and how to adjust this recipe accordingly? Thank you
Sorry, I’ve never tried, but I’m sure if you start with 3 tbsp you can have fun experimenting from there! 🙂
Being diabetic, I often get excited at a link to a sugar-free recipe, but then have my hopes dashed when I see it’s someone who doesn’t really understand that pureed dried fruit is still sugar. Your body doesn’t know the difference between sugar from dates and sugar from honey or maple syrup or agave or actual sugar. It’s ALL sugar. Please stop trying to tell people otherwise, because it’s SUPER frustrating for those of us who REALLY can’t have sugar in our diets.
I can understand why you’re frustrated, but I’m sure they sell sugar free dates 🙂 No reason to get angry at Katie!
This honestly looks better than the original version, because it looks so thick!