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.
Katie! Love your blog! I was wondering where do you usually run? Outdoors? Trails? Treadmill? Just wondering because I’m usually a gym rat but I want to incorporate some outdoor fitness. Also if you do weight training is it free weights or machines ? Thanks gorgeous and keep it coming with the amazing recipes 🙂
Hey Julia!
Thanks for the sweet comment :). I am the opposite of you LOL! I hate hate hate the treadmill and only will use it a few times a year (pouring rain or extreme ice/snow). Otherwise, I am always outside. I run outdoors (I live in the suburbs), but run on the grass as opposed to the sidewalk. It’s a more-challenging workout, and it’s better for your knees (or so they say).
As for weights… I really do not like lifting weights :(. I do it 2-3 times a week, but it’s just free weights (10-lbs). I mostly just do arm work, for like 30 minutes… I wish I could learn to like them as much as running!
I taste my food the whole time I’m cooking. I end up full before I even serve it. This dip looks so good! I love lots of cinnamon in everything, so this is perfect for me:D
Cool recipe!!! And I don´t mind being called a cinnamon stick – they smell wonderfull and I love them :)) I can imagine worse names to be called (oh, actually I have been called worse names 🙂
I like to taste as I am cooking, but it depends – when cooking something savory, it is sometimes not very “do-able” to taste anything (except the veggies). But cake batter is always looking like it is saying “Taste me!!!” So how could I resist? 🙂
I usually wait until the end to taste. If it tastes like crap, I usually come up with some way to save it:)
Just to let you know, I’ve tried all the brownie recipes and this with coconut oil, and it works a treat!
Hi cutie 🙂 Made your fruit salad today : http://veganaphrodite.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/wiaw-fruits-and-raw-brownies/
Over the top- yummy!!
Oh my goodness, I can’t EVER keep my fingers out of the bowl whenever I’m baking! I love the cookie dough dips! I just made some of Christin’s (Purple Bird Blog) baked dessert hummus balls and polished those babies off in a single weekend!
Question: you really wouldn’t need the baking soda if you are eating this dough raw, don’t you think?
I actually just put it in there for taste :).
Wow! That looks soooo yummy. I have to say that I haven’t quite gotten the hang of tasting my food as I’m cooking it. I will taste batters (of course, how could you not?) but I find that the flavor often changes after baking. I think I’m going to create the goal for myself to start tasting my food as I’m cooking it in order to gauge the flavor profile better.
Sigh – Seriously Katie? snickerdoodles are my most favorite cookie – but as they are so TERRIBLE for you, I almost never eat them – what an excellent solution! I think this will be added to my list of things to do with my three day weekend.
Sending you another email as we speak…
hey katie! just wanted to let you know your blondies freeze well 🙂 i froze the rest of my batch and have been defrosting them in the microwave when i want them. they still taste awesome 😀
also i subbed oat BRAN for the flax and it was fine 😀 i got some flax though so i’m going to use it in the next batch.
Ooh! Haha if I ever keep them around long enough to freeze, that’s good to know!