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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Gotcha!! My store didn’t have any walnut, just almond and peanut. I grabbed the almond – but per your suggestion may use the PB I have here at home. Does it give it a peanut butter flavor, though?? Thank you so much!! 🙂
I never notice a pb flavor, but I might be biased because I love pb so much!
Thank you for sharing this awesome recipe. I found it on Pinterest & tried it. Even my picky 4 year old was begging for more. It was so good I had to link back to your recipe in my latest blog post.
http://minasarah.blogspot.com/2011/10/kcwc-fall-2011-day-3.html
Your post is adorable! (I couldn’t comment, because I don’t have a wp or google account, but I loved the photos!)
This was amazing- thank you! I can indulge my sweets craving without feeling guilty 🙂 Looking forward to trying the snicker doodle and brownie batter versions as well as other yummy recipes from your site!
It’s me again! The other chocoholic Katie, lol. My mom and I tried this dip and we were pleasantly surprised and how yummy it was. We used graham crackers and those fig newton crispy cookie things as dippers and I was tempted to eat it straight out of the bowl too, lol. Great job, Katie! We hope to try more of your recipes soon. 🙂
Oh my gosh, I found this through a picture on Pinterest. My jaw dropped when I read chickpeas. Makes me wonder how it will taste ;-p
I’m doing a cookie themed party for my son’s birthday and I plan on using this recipe. Thanks!
Ooh I hope he likes it!!
I just discovered Pinterest… and I probably spend more time on there than I should. It’s a bit addictive!
I know, it’s great! I spend way too much time on there. I just love being able to see stuff other people find 🙂
Katie.. I loved this recipe w/one just one issue… it was more peanut buttery than I was prepared for. Maybe the recipe should be called Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip dip? I should have heeded your note that you can get away w/3 T of PB. I ended up throwing in a banana to try to sublte the pb flavor. There’s no denying it’s a Peanut Butter dip. Is there any way I can make this taste less peanut buttery or do I just need to make a new recipe using less peanut butter next time?
I do love the recipe and I’m planning to make several of your desserts for company coming soon. My husband insisted I make the deep dish chocolate chip pie for the company and reveal the ingredients after they’ve even it all.
Hmmm… maybe it has to do with the brand of peanut butter? I actually don’t taste pb in mine at all! And no one else has mentioned it when I serve it to them; they just say it tastes exactly like cookie dough!
But you can also try using another nut butter. Walnut butter would be good, without a strong flavor. Or you can even try subbing canola oil.
I used the full 1/4 cup of nut butter. I used Justin’s Organic Honey Peanut Butter. I had Honey Almond and Maple Almond on hand also but I thought the Honey PB would be the least over powering.
I decided to try baking it. Having added the banana, it turned out wickedly good. Banana, PB, Chocolate chip…blondie? It is soooooooo good– so no tears hear!! You should try it. I highly recommend your own recipe using the 1/4 cup PB/w a banana added baked at 350 for 30 minutes. Yummy. (I ate three bars!!)
I will try this recipe again w/less nut butter next time. I want to perfect it for company.
*Runs off to peel a banana!* 🙂
Hi I am a little confused. I have a can of beans, 1.5 cups, but it is 425 grams. Where do you get a can 250g can of beans that has 1.5 cups? Thanks!
It’s 240g after being drained, so your can is perfect!
Ridiculous!!! I rarely take time to comment on posts, but this is FABULOUS. I found it on Pinterest. I am taking it to a church potluck tonight and can’t wait to tell people what’s in it after they devour it. Great job and many, many thanks for creating healthy, vegan DESSERT recipes! 🙂
Aww, you are so welcome! And thanks for such a kind comment! 🙂
I just tried to make this and it was the consistency of a runny peanut butter (natural style that you have to stir up). I used 1/4C of almond butter for the nut butter and everything else I did exactly as you said. Any suggestions? And I did just use 1 can of chickpeas… The flavor is good, so I think it’s the lack of dough consistency that isn’t cutting it. Love all your recipes I have tried so far!
Hi Joni,
I’m not sure what could have happened, because mine is always reeeaally thick… but how much liquid did you add? And how much of the oats?
(Also, just in case: did you drain the chickpeas?)
I had the same problem, I drained the chick peas, and I only used 2 Tbsp oats.. I may add more..
I had the same problem too! Tastes fine but totally looks like runny peanut butter (but used almond butter) I am wondering if it was because I used the vitamix blender, not the food processor?? I did everything else like Katie….(coconut palm sugar was used as sweetener) I wish I could make it look more like CCC dough……