Hi chocolate cinnamon sticks!
Well, except cinnamon sticks aren’t yummy, because you can’t eat them. I’m striking out here; first with yesterday’s fruit loop fiasco, and now this. Let me make it up to you.
How? Why I’m so glad you asked!
I invented this dip while making Snickerdoodle Blondies.
Snickerdoodle Dip
(high-protein and gluten-free!)
Inspried by the extremely-popular Chickpea Cookie Dough Dip.
- 1 1/2 cups chickpeas or white beans (1 can) (250g after draining)
- 3 tbsp nut butter of choice (or other fat source) (see link below for fat-free option)
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- heaping 1/8 tsp salt
- sweetener (see note below, for amount)
- 1 tbsp unsweetened applesauce
- 1/4 cup ground flax or quick oats (20g) (you can omit)
- 2 and 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- optional ingredients: a pinch cream of tartar, raisins
Drain and rinse your beans very well. Blend all ingredients in a food processor (not a blender) until very, very smooth. Now this next step is very important: Dip every single thing you can grab into the batter. Stuff it all into your mouth.
Click on the following link for a Fat-Free Option.
**People with “normal” tastebuds will probably like 3/4c brown sugar. You can also use stevia if you like the taste of stevia-sweetened desserts, or liquid sweeteners are fine, as is white sugar or evaporated cane juice. Tastes differ, so just sweeten until it suits you! Dip apple slices or crackers, spread on a banana or toast, or…
Try it as a frosting for the following recipe: Breakfast Pizza Cake.
Do you taste as you’re cooking?
Or do you wait for the final product before taking a taste? I like to take a few tastes as I go. That way, if a recipe isn’t turning out well, I still have a chance to fix it. And you can bet whenever I cook with chocolate chips… well, let’s just say not all the chips end up in the actual recipe.
This sounds just as amazing as the cookie dough dip tasted! Yum! 🙂
You crack me up some days. We made your chocolate chip cookie dough dip (or whatever you called it) and it was AWESOME!! My husband kept going back for more… and more… He was over the moon when I mentioned chocolate chips AND chickpeas were involved: his two all-time favourite foods. My tastebuds had a party too. Needless to say, we both had some more for breakfast. Thanks for all the yummy recipes!!!
To answer your question of the day, I like to taste a few times when I am cooking too. Quality assurance is taken very seriously. Also, it is very important to make sure those chocolate chips aren’t going stale whilst waiting to be added to a recipe. 😉
Chocolate for breakfast? I KNEW you were my kinda girl!
i KNEW this one was coming!!! im less of a taster and more of a lick the bowl gal 🙂
These photos are gorgeous! The dip sounds so good. I love your blondies, and now I know what I’ll be trying next! 🙂
Also, have you ever tried roasting chickpeas? They taste like popcorn! So good!
So many people attest that professional chefs don’t taste as they cook and go along, but… I can confidently argue that that’s a LIIIE. I worked in an up-scale French restaurant last summer, and all the chefs (especially the head chef) tasted [with new spoons each time… yes, poor dishwasher boy. Luckily we had loads of clean spoons] their dishes as they cooked. I do too, and it’s good you do as well. 😀 For exactly the reason you stated! IMO, it’s especially important when cooking spicy dishes! You don’t want it to end up too spicy (though I think there’s no such thing) before you can’t fix it once you’re done.
I tend to eat as I prepare dishes, too. I’ll steal bits of veggies while chopping, or have spoonfuls of rice while it’s cooking… Gotta make sure everything’s as it should be, right?! Haha 😛
Ahhh I can never keep my fingers out of the batter either. YUM
That sounds so good 😀 And I’m totally guilty of licking blender blades…… Yes, the risk is worth it 🙂
The photos are so awesome! I love the first one especially!
“Now this next step is very important: Dip every single thing you can grab into the batter. Stuff it all into your mouth.”
LOL. your hysterical.
Im so making this. ONCE I finally get myself to the grocery store and buy some beans! im such a slacker….
I ALWAYS taste as Im cooking. I know one day ill regret it, say when im making cookies with the whole raw egg thing, but I cant help myself 🙂
Yes please! Love all the delish-looking photos, can’t wait to try them out!! Thanks for sharing