Here it is, the internet famous original healthy chickpea cookie dough dip recipe!
Chocolate chip cookie dough dip
This is one recipe that everyone should try, if you somehow haven’t already!
With multiple celebrity fans and thousands of food bloggers posting their own versions of the secretly healthy cookie dough dip, it is definitely worth all of the hype.
Currently with over one hundred million views and shares, this famous chickpea cookie dough dip recipe has been featured by Cooking Light, Bon Appetit, CNN, Shape, Glamour, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Fox, ABC, the TODAY Show, and The Huffington Post.
You’ll be shocked at how much it really does taste like actual cookie dough!
You may also like this Brownie Batter Dip
Chickpea cookie dough party dip
But will “normal” people like it?
This was my question after first creating the recipe all the way back in 2011.
While I luckily have adventurous friends and family to taste test recipes, they all know by now that anything I ask them to try will be healthier than traditional desserts.
We fell in love with this chickpea dessert dip, making me wonder if the general population not used to healthy desserts would love it too.
My main goal with all of my recipes is not just for people to say they are good, for a healthy dessert.
I want the recipes to be good, for any dessert!
The following is directly from my page About Chocolate Covered Katie.
I refuse to believe one must give up delicious food in order to be healthy. Healthy food can taste incredible when it’s prepared the right way.
Chickpea cookie dough dip recipe video
Above: Watch the video of how to make the healthy dessert dip
Healthy cookie dough dip?
I brought the chickpea cookie dough dip to a party, not telling anyone it was healthy or that it was mine.
I simply set the dessert dip down on the table amidst the other classic party snacks.
Something amazing happened…
People tried the dip.
They went back for seconds.
Then thirds.
Everyone kept asking, “Who brought the cookie dough dip? I need this recipe!”
And I constantly overheard statements like, “Ugh I need to stop eating this stuff” or “Where are my fat pants?”
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When I finally revealed the secret ingredient, no one could believe it.
Therefore, this chickpea cookie dough dip recipe is absolutely a winner.
It’s like an unbaked form of the popular Deep Dish Cookie Pie.
I don’t know about you, but when I make that chocolate chip cookie pie, quite a bit of the raw dough gets consumed in the process.
So I figured, why bother baking it at all?
Whether in winter or summer, this easy chickpea cookie dough dip is a great way to quickly get your chocolate chip cookie fix without turning on the oven.
Serving suggestions
For the party, I served the healthy chickpea cookie dough dip with graham crackers and pretzels. Sliced bananas, strawberries, apples, or other fresh fruit are also lovely.
If you are serving it at a holiday event, ginger snaps are a festive dipping option.
Many readers have even written in to say they use it as frosting for pancakes, waffles, cupcakes, or a double layer Vegan Chocolate Cake.
You can of course eat this healthy cookie dough dip by the spoonful.
Or try dipping in any of these Healthy Cookies Recipes.
Chickpea cookie dough dip ingredients
The recipe calls for chickpeas or white beans, pure vanilla extract, chocolate chips, oats or almond flour, nut butter or an allergy friendly sub, milk of choice, and a pinch of salt and baking soda.
You may use chickpeas (also known as garbanzo beans), navy beans, great northern beans, cannellini beans, or butter beans.
Since you will be draining the can and rinsing the beans very well, it is fine to buy either no salt added beans or a can with salt.
If you wish to substitute cooked white beans for the canned beans, the recipe calls for about one and a half cups of cooked beans.
Want to use black beans? Try this surprisingly delicious Chocolate Hummus.
Adding peanut butter will give the recipe a tasty peanut butter cookie dough flavor. If you prefer a more neutral cookie dough taste, go with almond butter, cashew butter, Coconut Butter, or regular butter or vegan butter.
Thicken the recipe with quick oats or oat flour, almond meal or almond flour, or ground flax seeds. Regular flour will also thicken the dip, although it is currently debatable as to whether raw flour is safe to eat.
Why baking soda?
One of the most common questions I receive about this dip is why baking soda is included in a no bake dip.
The short answer is that I had initially intended to bake the mixture the first time I came up with the recipe.
But even more importantly, baking soda adds a slightly salty “cookie dough” flavor to the dish. You can absolutely leave it out if you prefer.
In fact, why not try it both ways to see for yourself, it really does add something extra!
Vegan chickpea cookie dough dip
This cookie dessert dip is easily vegan as long as you use dairy free chocolate chips and plant based milk, such as almond milk, soy milk, or coconut milk.
It can also be gluten free if you choose almond flour, flax meal, or certified gluten free oats or oat flour.
2015 edit: When I asked readers to vote for their top 5 absolute favorite recipes from the blog to include in the new Chocolate Covered Katie Cookbook, this chickpea cookie dough dip won by a landslide!
Healthy Chickpea Cookie Dough Dip
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups chickpeas or white beans (1 can, drained and rinsed very well) (250g after draining)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- just over 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup nut butter of choice or allergy friendly sub
- up to 1/4 cup milk of choice only if needed
- Sweetener of choice (see note below)
- 1/3 cup chocolate chips or sugar free chocolate chips
- 2-3 tbsp quick oats or almond flour or flaxmeal as needed to thicken
Instructions
- Sweetener Notes: I used 2/3 cup brown sugar when I first made this for the party. Liquid sweeteners (agave, maple, etc.) are fine as well. You can get away with less sugar – some people will be perfectly fine with just 3 tbsp for the whole recipe! See the following link for: Sugar-Free Cookie Dough Dip.Add all ingredients (except for chocolate chips) to a good food processor, and process until very smooth. Then mix in the chocolate chips. (Some commenters have had success with a blender, but I did not. Try that at your own risk, and know the results will be better in a high-quality food processor such as a Cuisinart.) If made correctly and blended long enough, this should have the exact texture of real cookie dough!View Nutrition Facts
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Notes
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Also, if you want to make your own homemade vegan cookie dough ice cream, try stirring spoonfuls of the cookie dough into my Coconut Ice Cream or the following four ingredient Keto Ice Cream.
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Just made this…. addicting and delicious with strawberries dipped it. i had to force myself to put it back in the fridge!! haha your site has inspired my delving into vegan/veggie/healthy desserts. definitely inspiring me and helping me to combat my sweet tooth (or teeth…) in a different- delicious- healthy way! thank you!!
Aw you are so welcome!
Katie!
I’ve tried three of your recipes. This “cookie dough” being the most recent. You are three for three in my book. YUM! Can I get a YUM YUM?? One word for you: Genius. Spreading the word of your awesomeness! 😛
Jillian
That means so much to me! My goal in life is to make everyone eat more chocolate ;).
Hey! JUST MADE THIS AND LOVE ITTT!!!
how long do u think it will last though??
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Hey! JUST MADE THIS AND LOVE ITTT!!!
how long do u think it will last though in the fridge?
Um… at least three or four days? But probably no longer. So glad you like it!! 🙂
I LOVE all of your recipes!! I made this today and took some pictures. If you’d like to see, they’re on my blog at http://mathgirldaily.blogspot.com/2011/06/bowl-of-cookie-dough-yes-please.html. Thanks for sharing all of your delicious recipes!
I have to confess, I laughed a bit at Em’s question….only because I would never have to be concerned with how long this stuff would last….It’s never around long enough for me to consider that question! Either I like this stuff WAY too much or Em has more willpower than I…perhaps both! 😛
Hi Katie! I made this the other day and took it to a brunch with me. Everybody who tried it said it was good, but my boyfriend may have prevented some potential tasters from trying it by letting them know it had chickpeas in it after I asked him not to! Oh well. I found it turned out a lot more runny than it looks in the picture you posted, though still tasted good. Is this because I didn’t add the oats?
I’m guessing that must be it, because I do use flax, so I have to add a lot of liquid… but some others who don’t use the flax/oats say that it’s too liquidy. So I edited my recipe to say 1/4 cup liquid, or more or less as needed. I guess if you’re not using the oats/flax, it’ll be less as needed.
Very very interesting! I’ll definitely have to try this recipe. Gorgeous photos too : )
Aww thank you! 🙂
Hey Katie, I was in bed last night waiting to fall asleep and I had an idea… couldn’t you somehow add cocoa to this recipe, or to the blondie recipe, and make it “Brownie Batter”? Idk if it would work but just a suggestion I thought I’d share 🙂
I’m so conflicted! I have TWO brownie batter recipes, and I don’t know which one to post! I don’t know which one is better… lol so I do have a brownie batter recipe, but it doesn’t have a post written about it yet! 😕
Well either way I’m sure they’re both delicious!
Ok, So I have to admit that I made this recipe for two reasons: 1. I LOVE cookie dough. I never actually make the cookies, I just eat the dough and 2. I’m skeptic about healthy food. It’s the reason I have a hard time eating healthy-it all tastes so gross! So I gave it a try and before I even got to stick my finger in it, my husband came up and said “what are you making?”, tasted it, and said, “ooh, you’re making cookies!” Oh my gosh! We dipped apples in it. I now must say I have faith in healthy food, as long as I get the recipes from this site. You are a miracle worker. Thank you so much for sharing your talent.
PS please please please post the brownie recipes. The one thing I love more than cookie dough is brownies.
Thank you again and again.
Brownies! https://lett-trim.today/2011/06/10/im-obsessed-with-this-dessert/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
(If you really want them to taste like boxed-mix brownies, use dutch-processed cocoa. But I use regular and still think they taste awesome, although not like boxed mixes)
ooh, thank you thank you thank you