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.
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!
I really wish I had a decent blender to make all of your delicious stuff. I am thinking of getting a food processor over the summer because I see so many things on different blogs, like banana frozen ice cream that I wouldn’t be able to make with a blender. Or things like homemade larabars. Would this recipe work with a food processor? Like an 11-cup one?
I actually use a food processor for this all the time! 🙂
So yes!
I am a total “taster!” Especially with cookie dough…you gotta taste it to make sure it’s good right? 😉
This dip looks delicious! It’s like dessert hummus!
I always taste as I’m baking. The batter is better than the final products sometimes! this dip looks omg so good, especially on the breakfast pizzert 🙂
I think I need to make this. I always taste as I go when I cook. Mostly because I cook when I am hungry so my meal is half eaten by the time I sit down and eat. As for baking, I try the batter if it is something new I am making. If I’m making a tried a true recipe, I will just mix and bake. I’m not a big fan of eating a lot of sugar other then in fruits and veggies. That doesn’t meen I don’t eat baked goods though. 🙂
Everytime I look at the word pizzert I pronounce it like lizard instead of like pizza. Did that make sense? lol. And I’m a big fan of tasting as you go. When cooking savoury dishes, my family always tried little pieces & called it ‘fall off’. When baking, I lick the spoon & cannot help but open the oven a couple of times to peak at it!
Oh my word. I never thought of it that way. Wow I want to change the name so badly now!!! But too many people already know it as pizzert. Oy vey!
sounds wonderful katie
and yes, i usually do taste, b/c it seems like wasting whenever what i’m making coats the utensils. It is also gives me a fairly good idea if I added enough sugar prebaking.
Did you use chickpeas or white beans for yours? And could you make your own version of peppermint patties? That would be amazing <3 (they're my fav) 😉
I used chickpeas, but a lot of other people are saying they actually like white beans even better in the recipe!
I can try to make peppermint patties. In the meantime, here’s something close: https://lett-trim.today/2010/10/06/homemade-peanut-butter-cups-in-your-bra/%3C/a%3E%3Cbr /> You could try adding peppermint extract to the coconut butter!
Ha ha, love the bit about licking the blender blades – I thought it was only me that did that 🙂
I always stick my fingers into what I’m cooking… the only time I can’t is if I’m making a gluten-containing cake – but it’s so hard not to!