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 already made this dip! Woo hoo! I didn’t have any dates so I used 1/2 of a very ripe banana and added a little bit of honey. I am SO excited!
I love your banana idea!
THANK GOODNESS!! I knew taking forever to read through these comments SOMEONE would not have had dates when making this! Thanks for posting your comment!! I started making this and was like “oh… no dates!” … Going to use a banana!
Hi Katie, I’m just curious- what is the purpose of the baking powder in this recipe?
Not baking powder; it must be baking soda! It’s in there for the flavor. I think the best chocolate-chip cookies have a little kick from baking soda. 🙂
Thank goodness for Pintrest LOL Thats how I found you like millions of others 🙂 I am vegan and your blog os a Godsend. Thanks!
I’m so glad you found me! Fellow vegans unite! 🙂
I try to limit my sugar intake to just natural fruit sugars and such. I just know my little girl is going to love this recipe.
Ugh, I can’t believe I missed yesterday’s post (I think it was just how my day was going; you can tell from my blog post that it wasn’t the best day). Endangered Species chocolate is my FAVORITE chocolate. I ate it every day while pregnant with my daughter (it was my biggest craving). I even sent my hubby out to get some while I was in the hospital (he also kept me stocked in them throughout my entire pregnancy).
Here are some of the bars he got me for Valentine’s Day one year, ’cause he knows how much I love them: http://rawdorable.blogspot.com/2010/02/valentines-came-early.html So sweet!
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!!