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?”
Healthy dessert lovers also enjoy Avocado Chocolate Mousse
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.
Your life might never be the same again…
Thank you so much Katie! I did only need 3 T of sugar (and I’m actually a recovering sugar addict!). I used 2 T of sucanat and 1T of Truvia and this is so delicious 😀 I’m so happy to have a dessert that’s low in sugar now
Today, I had two exams. (Junior year college student). I studied for both, but one more than the other, and neither went as well as I had hoped. It was rainy and cold, and I tripped walking to one class and ripped a hole in the knees of one of my favorite pairs of jeans. I was unable to complete homework for one of my classes because of studying for the other two.
Then I came home, decided to treat myself to a bowl of cookie dough dip (which I have been waiting to make since this summer, or something like that) and some Dancing with the Stars re-runs.
Suddenly, all is well. 🙂
Ps. Not a vegan. Still loved it.
(Too much, perhaps!)
This is pure genius and so delicious! It was a great way to get ride of my leftover Halloween candy too! I chopped up Reese’s, Kit Kats, and Hershey’s Bars and added them in. It was nice to enjoy my candy in a less-guilt way. But how do you get it so think (like in your pictures)? I’ve been using oil instead of nut butter- is that why it’s thinner?
Hmmm… mine is super-thick even if I use oil :(. Maybe it depends on how powerful your food processor is? I’m not sure why yours would be liquidy… are you using the oats? And draining the beans?
Definitely draining the beans but I haven’t used as many oats because I didn’t have the milk to offset them. Maybe that’s the key, I should use the full amount. Thanks! Either way, it’s addictive and my friends and I cannot stop eating it! The first batch lasted 3 days, the second didn’t even make it 24 hours! It’s as good if not better than real cookie dough!
Love, love, LOVE this recipe. Made it for the second time tonight and only used 2 T brown sugar, 2 T almond butter, 2 T applesauce and 3 T flax meal. It was perfect.
I just discovered your blog and am looking forward to making pretty much each and every recipe.
Have you ever used infant rice cereal? I am just starting to experiment with it, but I make something similar to your pumpkin and banana bread in a bowl with it. I love the flavor and consistency!
Haha my mom will be so happy to know that someone besides her eats baby rice cereal! Growing up, I always made fun of her (in a joking manner, of course), because she liked to buy that Gerber baby cereal for herself. Even now, when I go home to my parents’ house, I find that cereal in the cabinet. So you’re saying maybe I should steal some next time and try it for myself? 😉
why do you have to use dairy-free milk???
As a vegan, I always use nondairy milk. (For this recipe, I use almond milk.) But you can use any type of milk you have.
why am i the only one who thought this was GROSS!!!!? Made it for a football party and everyone hated it! I followed the recipe to a T (except i omited the oatmeal and milk per your alternative suggestion)
Yuck!
Sorry, but there’s NO way you could’ve made the recipe to a tee if EVERYone hated it. Maybe you accidentally changed an ingredient amount and didn’t even realize? I have made this dip many, many times and it’s always a huge hit (yes, with people who are used to normal, non-healthy food), so there’s no way everyone you know has such different taste buds from the rest of the world. If you make it correctly, sure, one or two people might not like it. But not everyone.
I’m sorry I’m not trying to be rude, i just can’t figure it out! I have gone over and over the ingredients and am positive that I followed it perfectly. I used peanut butter for the nut butter and 2/3 cup brown sugar for the sweetner. And like i said, i omited the oats and milk as per your alternative instructions.. maybe that would’ve made it better?? I don’t know!
And okay not everyone said it was gross but the majority of the people used that term and the others said, “it’s not terrible…”!!
The only chickpeas i could find at kroger was the kroger brand, so maybe they have a stronger flavor?? I don’t know! I’ve never used chickpeas before so I couldn’t tell ya!
Oh gosh, I wasn’t trying to be mean either!! I hope it didn’t come across that way! It’s just frustrating to not know what could’ve gone wrong when someone makes something, because I wasn’t there… when I post a recipe, my biggest hope is that everyone loves it. I always feel so badly when someone leave a comment saying one of my recipes was a bust. 🙁 I don’t ever want that to happen at all!
I’ve definitely used the kroger chickpeas before, but you have to make sure to drain them very well. And yeah, the oats definitely make it taste more like cookie dough. Also, blend very very well because you don’t want chunks of chickpeas. But lol you probably don’t want to ever make this recipe again… I just thought I’d offer some ideas, just in case!
Anyway, sorry again if my above comment came across as being mean. I really wasn’t trying to be! I’m so sorry the recipe didn’t work for you!
no that’s okay! I totally understand! Thanks for the other ideas! Would garbonzo beans work instead maybe?? I know i like the taste of hummus and i saw someone commented that they used that for a similar recipe.
actually… hmm i guess garbonzo beans are chickpeas? LOL well nevermind!
You know, at first I was put off by the “bean-y” smell that the canned beans have. But after it’s gotten cold in the fridge I no longer noticed it. I use dried chickpeas that have been soaked now, no bean smell. Maybe that would help?
OMG this tastes exactly like cookie dough! I went with your suggestion to use oil in place of pb because I wanted it to taste like Toll House. And it SO does! I think my boyfriend almost likes it more than me! He keeps grabbing the bowl. And says he doesn’t even like beans!
Oh.my.Gosh. I have wanting to try this recipe ever since I found it on Pinterest. I am trying to find a hiding place for it so there will be some left for my school aged child and husband. Honestly, I wasn’t sold until I tasted it..I LOVE hummus, but chickpeas and chocolate chips?? I’m a believer!!!! Delicious. Thanks!!!
I call this Cookie Daux (like faux) and it’s amazing in frozen dollops. Even better would be to dip them in chocolate and re-freeze!
Haha love your name for it!
And I can say ffrom personal experience that it’s awesome dipped in chocolate! I just need to get that post up! 🙂
You are a Genius!!!! I added a couple spoons of wheat germ for a little added cookie dough texture. Its crazy because when you think of garbanzo beans you think of savory but this is quite the opposite.