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!
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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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Thanks so much for this! The kids (ages 6 and 11) and I just made it today for snack because they were rammy and bored. They chose the sugar-sweetened version, but we only put in 1/3 cup brown sugar and then tasted it. They were happy with it, so we stopped there! They declared that there was no chickpea taste at all, and I agree. I would definitely bring this to a party, stand back, and watch with glee as people snacked it down.
After lusting over this recipe for several months, I finally worked up the courage to try it. It’s SO worth the food processor clean-up. I’m pregnant and have no shame admitting that I did spoon this over my coconut milk ice cream. Yummy!!!
One note, I used coconut sugar as sweetener and think I’ll try a different option next time because it tasted faintly burned. Could be my brand of coconut sugar, but it will definitely be great with maple syrup next time. Highly recommend this recipe and Katie’s site.
What kind of nut butter did you use? I would like to create this the first time the exact way you did for the party, so I will be using the 2/3 cup of brown sugar, but I do not know what nut butter to recreate this with.
Oh gosh, this is making my stomach growl.. if I had beans in the house now, I know what I’d be eating right now! Your pictures are phenomenal, by the way 🙂
Am I wrong in assuming this is canned chic peas or white northern?
After looking at this recipe for probably a year – finally made it. You are genius!
This really, really does taste like Cookie dough. Having made humus all my life, I decided to use Northern Beans instead, if only because of the mental picture I’d get that I was eating humus with chocolate chips (eeew). LOL.
I added MCT oil instead of any milk at all (probably made it richer/creamier?) and went to town with the cuisinart. 4 mins on low 3 minutes on high. If you go nuts like I did, chilll your “cookie batter” a bit before adding the chips. I hadn’t realized the pulsing had warmed it enough to actually start to melt the chips when I was folding them in. ha ha!
I made it with very loosely packed brown sugar 3/4 cup, put a full 1/4 tsp of salt – I like the savory/sweet play but even with the extra salt it was very sweet. I might even lower the sugar to just under 3/4. When she says you could use less sugar you really can!
If you’re doubting this recipe in any way – DON’T!!! No bean taste whatsoever. It tastes decadent. I might even try it with humus- I mean chickpea next time. 🙂
my family can’t to any nuts or nut butter if can this recipe be made using vegetable oil?
Yes. Use the batter for this recipe:
https://lett-trim.today/2011/05/31/deep-dish-cookie-pie/%3C/a%3E%3Cbr /> It’s basically the cookie dough dip made with oil instead of nut butter.
This was so awesome! I just made it and my husband said “this is healthy?” Haha literally one of the best things we’ve ever had! We had it with club multi-grain crackers and graham crackers. My 3 year old kept licking it off the cracker then dipping again! Haha i will be making this for my 1 year olds’ bday party. Thank you for a great recipe. Looking forward to exploring your site!
Every once in a while there is a conversation in my house that goes a little bit like this:
Mom/sister/friend: “I want cookie dough.”
Me: “We have the ingredients. And the electricity.”
M/S/F: *blank stare*
Me: *sighs* FINE I’LL MAKE THE COOKIE DOUGH DIP
Did you use natural peanut butter in your original dip that you brought to the party? 🙂
I have made it many times now, and both natural or skippy-type peanut butter work!