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 this last night! I used white beans instead of chick peas and I used almond butter for the nut butter (it seemed like it needed a little extra so I added more). I didn’t have 8 hours worth of patience for the dates so I only soaked them for about an hour – which worked alright, although my dough didn’t need the extra coconut milk for liquid at all. This is good! I’ve never made the other version of the recipe but I was happy with this one. Full disclosure – it’s a little healthy tasting and isn’t a dead ringer for cookie dough, but it is pretty darned delicious and does give you the the sense of eating a bowl of dough without the too-much-sugar feeling. I had it this morning for breakfast with a cup of black coffee – it was totally what the doctor ordered.
And I should add that I’m still thinking about it here at work. Yum.
Aww lol I’m glad you liked it! I think the sugar one probably tastes more like real cookie dough, simply because there’s brown sugar in real cookie dough… but hey, no one said it has to taste exactly like cookie dough to be just as good, right? 😉
I’m so excited you tried it!
Congrats Katie on going viral (what does that mean anyway, sounds like a flu bug) haha but I know enough to know it means you rock!
your cookie dough dip looks super tempting and I am totally avoiding sugar because it just make me sick. bloating, puffy, stomach pain, pms, and yes fatigue and everything else.
I’m a cookie dough addict so I’m going to try this now!
xo
haha it means hundreds of thousands of people are sharing your post (or it’s a common term with youtube videos, meaning hundreds of thousands of people have seen your video). It actually does get its name from a virus. It means something on the internet has spread like a virus lol!
I can not do sugar at all, it just makes me feel like total rubbish! But that cookie dough looks so ridiculously amazing it makes me sad I don’t have any of the ingredients!
Im so glad this is sugar free!! Im currently trying to eat less sugar and Im looking for new recieps!! This looks perfect 🙂
Yum! I’m going to have to try this. Question- do you think this would work without the peanut butter? It’s the weirdest thing- I’m obsessed with peanut butter and can eat it by the spoonful. Yet I don’t like it in cookies??? Maybe because too many things get in the way of the PB taste. I am going to attempt it without it- even though it’s also super delicious with it 🙂 Love the use of dates- I may try to use bananas too since they are easier to mash up.
I really don’t know that it’d taste good without the fat, although you can try it! But you can always sub another nut butter, such as walnut butter. Or maybe even try subbing oil for the pb? No matter what you do, I’d love to know how it turns out!
I think that coconut butter would be a good substitute but it’d really give it a coconut tinge. Some mashed banana and coconut oil might have the right consistency.
I made this recipe without the baking soda (I just forgot it) and used 1/3 cup date sugar and 1/3 cup brown sugar/coconut sugar mixture (which made me need the milk) and added a bit of Dickinson’s creme Vanilla curd to the recipe as well. Came out really great with garbanzo beans.
This looks delicious. I know this a dessert blog, but perhaps you can surprise us once in a while with one of your savory recipes? I’m really curious how you incorporate things like garbanzo beans into your meals.
Hi Victoria!
I don’t know if you saw this, but just in case, here’s a link to my non-dessert recipes. I do post one… every once in a blue moon :).
https://lett-trim.today/chocolate-covered-recipes/non-dessert-recipes/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
I must have missed these. Thanks!!
Thanks for categorizing all your sugar-free recipes in one spot; that is so incredibly helpful! I don’t disagree with you about sugar but don’t eat it myself because I am extremely sensitive to it. But I am also extremely sensitive to caffeine. A cup of black tea makes me jittery. More than 8g or so of added sugar in one serving will have my thoughts racing and my heart beating fast. Some people like that feeling; it makes me feel ill. But I have friends and family members who can take a lot more than that before feeling gross and some never feel it. So I just think it’s an individual thing. BUT at the same time, if you can be healthier and still get the same great taste (thanks in large part to your recipes!) why wouldn’t you? Thanks Katie!
Pretzels dipped in sugar-free chocolate chip cookie dough dip! This is definitely on my priority list.
Ok. WOW.
That is literally all I can say.
That honestly looks like one of the most delicious things I’ve ever seen!
That is crazy that you came up with this recipe. I have already tried it with the oats. I had more oats though! Sometimes I make it more into bars and freeze it. This is not the first time I have come with a different recipe or tried something new and you then did the same thing. I guess great minds think alike!
Oh you have try it with adding a little coconut butter and using flavored PB like white chocolate!
I do not add the date water though!
One last reply to my own reply! You have to try it adding in canned pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, maple extract and making pumpkin pie dip with chocolate chips! I have been in the Fall mood!
Oh wow, I love love love your pumpkin idea!! 🙂
I love sweetening things with fruit or fruit juice. I use grape juice to sweeten my adapted cinnamon raisin bread and dates for my flourless, sugarless pumpkin spice muffin. And, I love fruit on it’s own, of course 😀
I have to admit I found the link through Pinterest. I made it the next day, along with the Blondie Chocolate Chip bars and the chocolate pie over the weekend. Nothing lasted more than a day! So delicious! I’m making this again right…..now. 🙂
Aww yay! I am so so happy you tried the recipes! 🙂
Thanks for this amazing recipe!! I decided to actually use this dough to bake the cookies. I modified the recipe slightly to add extra protein with a few heaping Ts of peanut flour from trader joe’s. I’m not sure if you have ever used this ingredient but It gives everything an amazing peanut butter taste without the fat and it adds tons for protein like 16grams per 1/4 cup. It’s like natures protein powder.
I also upped the oats to 4T for a more substantial cookie I can take to work and have one as a mid morning snack. To compensate for the added dryness I put 1T of unsweetened apple sauce in and they have turned into amazingly delicious cake-like chocolate chip cookies!
Oh wow, that sounds awesome! I’ve made blondies with a similar recipe, but never cookies! I love your idea!
Also, I really should experiment with peanut flour… everyone seems to love it!
I eat low sugar, and when I don’t, it’s usually naturally sweetened. I think once I ate like 3 tbsp of honey for 1 snack! …don’t ask xD
http://milk-and-tea.blogspot.com
How much stevia do you usually use for an all-stevia version? I’m thinking of trying to make this with half-stevia and half-dates, and would like a beginning benchmark. Thanks for all the hard work you do!!
I’ve only made it with all stevia once, and since it was just for me, I didn’t measure. But if you do it with dates, I’d recommend starting out with just a little stevia and taste-testing as you go. That’s how I come up with the sugar amounts in the non-date version: I blended it, then tested, then added a little more sweetener, then blended again, tested again, etc.
These were disgusting.
Hi, when you say “these” do you mean the dip? If so, can you tell me exactly what ingredients you used and how much… maybe I can help figure out how your dip went wrong?