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.
Tasting-as-I-go is what I love most about vegan baking 🙂 Its terrible to make a batch of cookies or something with raw eggs and you can’t eat the dough… haha.
I’m definitely guilty of sampling my baked goods before they go in the oven. Baking can take away some of the flavor, so I have to make sure I add enough spices/stevia before it goes in the oven!
going to make it right now! i have all the stuff!
okay strike my last comment, it turns out I had all the ingredients on hand, so I literally just made it…umm AMAZING!!! I used white beans, combo of unsweetened almond and peanut butter, no applesauce or flax, and truvia to sweeten. My blender was having trouble blending it all so I added a little almond milk to thin it out. It turned out AMAZING and I am literally eating it by the spoonful. Thank you Katie!!!!!!
I’m so excited you tried it! I want to try it with white beans now too!
I always taste-test when I bake.. the batter is better than the actual thing!
Oh holy YUM!! You’ve just given me the biggest dilemma ever-make this or the choc chip one first?!?!
And haha I don’t think I’ve EVER made something that hasn’t involved a LOT of tasting!! Cookie dough eating is definitely one of the best bits of being a vegan! 😉
I never taste dough when preparing cookies, cakes..there’s raw flour, raw eggs, baking powder, sometimes raw milk in it, so I wouldn’t like to try it.
Btw. I made your chocolate chip cookies three times so far. They are oh-so-delicious! Even though I burned them twice (I have no oven so I improvise in a pan lol).
I don’t like testing foods while preparing the dish – I’d easily end up full before the meal would be ready 😉
Aww I’m so happy you made the cookies! And also, your nutella fudge bites are one of my favorite feature entries. They are just SO pretty!
I ALWAYS taste while I go. I guess I think if the dough tastes good then the baked good will taste good, too! If it aint tastin good, then I can always add more stuff before baking….so I don’t have a gross-tastin batch of whatever!
haha oh you bet I eat my meal while cooking! And then some more. 😛
Who doesn’t taste as they cook? That is the fun part!
You HAVE to taste while you’re cooking…the horrors to mix up cookie batter and bake them, a savory dish and sautee it, a raw dish and clean your Vita and get all the dishes done, the oven on, and THEN find out you don’t like the way it tastes (it only will taste worse IMO after it’s baked)….so yes, you HAVE to taste while you’re working. Isn’t that Chef School 101 lesson? 🙂
Your dip looks great!
More beans in desserts. I promise, I will try this….soon! 🙂
Love this post, and the photos! I want to dive right in! Talk about being piggy, right?
I prefer licking the spoon/bowl 🙂 but usually I’ll take a few tastes as I go! You can always tell how a recipe will turn out by how the batter tastes.
Oh my gosh, I taste test continuously! LIke no one has before, well, except for maybe you it sounds like, we would probably make a pretty good taste testing team! No really, sometimes I test so much that I have to remind myself to STOP so I will have enough for a freakin’ picture! 🙂
I am happy to hear I am not the only risk-taker, licking the blender blades…one just must be extra cautious..totally worth it…that, licking the bowl, and taste testing are three of my favorite things about baking! YUM!
Have a great day!
LizAshlee
Haha I often DON’T have enough of a recipe left for a photoshoot! Then I’m forced to make more!
Yummi!!
I try to not eat as I make the food! Sometimes you need to taste as you cook, but I find I enjoy my meal/snack/dessert more if I wait till its done 🙂
Ill be making your fruit salad tomotrrow 😀 I have fresh mint, and I have been craving it since I saw it on your blog 😉
I can’t cook without sampling. It lets me know what I need to adjust – especially if I’m making up my own recipe!