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 for the recipe, I can’t wait to try it. Have you ever used dried garbanzo beans? I’m wondering how different my process would be because I have dried beans at home and I try not to use canned stuff due to the sodium. I’m going to try a overnight soak tonight…wish me luck!
I haven’t… but I know a lot of others have had success with the dried beans :).
I made a different version of this the other day – with chickpeas, instant oats, stevia, brown sugar, vegetable oil, cocoa, vanilla essence and choc chips. Deeelicious, and it looked just like a brownie mix! Nom nom nom
Just made this…obsessed. I talked about you in one of my most recent videos Katie! I am obsessed with your recipes.
Lots of love,
Megan
Aww wow, Megan, I am so honored! 🙂 🙂
Any tips for those that haven’t purchased a food processor (yet!) I’m going to have to get one soon but would love to make this recipe this weekend for the big game!
I highly recommend a Cuisinart! Mine is over 7 years old, and yet it still works really well :).
What kind of oil (olive oil or vegetable oil?) can you add instead of peanut butter? If so which one? Thank you = )
You could always do this recipe, and just don’t bake it: https://lett-trim.today/2011/05/31/deep-dish-cookie-pie%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Ok Katie…
I made this earlier on today…ate some…became obsessed. I then left some for my roommate to try and she ate A LOT of it! (haha). I got home from class this afternoon and wondered what it would taste like to microwave it some. OH MY GOD IT IS AMAZING! Have you tried it? I have a new obsession.
Thank you so much!
I haven’t! That sounds like a fabulous idea :).
OMG!! Just made this recipe and it’s totally fabulous! I was skeptical but wanted to try it out before bringing to a Super Bowl party on Sunday. This batch of cookie dough is mine!! 🙂
Oops! I used a blender and it got way too fluid! My mistake! I tried to add back in more oats but they wouldn’t really blend in! Oh well, I’ll try again soon! I used almond butter and it didn’t quite taste right either. I’m interested to try PB and coconut oil. I could see the merit of the earlier suggestion to grind the oats into flour FIRST. Wonder if mine was just wrong from the blender. I’ll try again to go to a Superbowl party this weekend! I just discovered your wonderful blog and I’m so excited!! 😉 I’ve been vegan off and on for years with limited success so this should really help me! Thanks!! ;D
PS- I ADORE the idea of cookies you dip on cookie dough batter!! Beyond cute!!
Hey Katie this looks awesome!!
BUT I don’t have a food processor, so is there anything I can use in place of it???
Some people have had luck with blenders… but I’d recommend doing it in batches, and I still can’t guarantee it’ll work, because I tried it in a blender once and it stayed chunky.
For the sweeteners, are there other sugar-free sweeteners besides stevia that are not artificial sweeteners out there. I get so confused on what is sugar free but not artificial. Would you recommend using liquid or dry forms of these sweeteners? I find that it’s been hard to figure out how to use stevia on things because a little can taste so sweet and it’s hard to substitute in traditional recipes. How do you use your stevia?
Hi,
Quick question, when you say if you don’t want peanut butter you can sub oil, how much oil? Do you mean in lieu of any nut butter or just in lieu of peanut butter? I happen to HATE peanut butter! Thanks.
You could always do this recipe, and just don’t bake it: https://lett-trim.today/2011/05/31/deep-dish-cookie-pie%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Katie, this sounds delicious BUT I have one problem… I have no food processor. Is there anything I can use in place of it?
Okay, I totally want to try this, but I don’t have any nut butter…when you say oil, is that any type of oil???
Well yes… but maybe it wouldn’t taste so good with olive or sesame hehe ;). I’d stick to coconut oil or veg/canola oil.
I posted this earlier, but it hasn’t shown up and I’m not sure if you just have a delay to approve or if I didn’t submit it correctly. I thought of a few things I left out.
I really wanted to like this, but it just didn’t work for me. I made it twice tonight. The first time I peeled most of the chickpeas (I thought I had baking soda, but didn’t so I shelled while my boyfriend did a quick run to the store), used almond butter instead of peanut butter (not a big peanut butter fan), and used chia seeds in place of oats/flax seed. I have old fashioned oats, would that work for oats? I wasn’t sure and saw in the comments that some people used chia seeds and hoped that would work. For the sweetener I used 2T maple syrup and 2T brown sugar, I saw that in one of the comments and thought it seemed like a good mix. I do have a sweet tooth so I’m thinking the third time I make it I will do 1/4 brown sugar.
For the chickpeas, both times I did rinse them, but possibly not as thoroughly so next time I will be more conscious of that since I saw that was a suggestion of yours to cut down on the chickpea flavor.
My mistake for the first one was in blending. I tried adding the ingredients gradually like I saw in a few comments. My blender can be a little finicky in blending things, so I thought that would be better. It was worse and I couldn’t really mix everything till I added milk in the end. Then it was fine. 100% my/my blender’s fault.
It came out a bit too nutty for my taste, but my boyfriend really liked it so it was a mini success. Admittedly, I am not a big nut person, but really hoped I would like it.
The second batch I didn’t shell (laziness) and I used canola oil instead of nut butter and still used chia seeds. I also blended everything together in one go. Worked SO much better. But the mixture had too much of a chickpea taste to it. I tried adding some cinnamon and some cookie butter from Trader Joe’s but it didn’t affect the taste. Boyfriend’s response: it has some weird spice in it.
Any other tips people have done to decrease the nuttiness? Also any tips on how to measure super sticky things like nut butter or honey? I seem to fail everytime. I will probably try the recipe again later, but I am currently out of chickpeas. Might try nutella. Also saw a few other subsitutions like applesauce, honey butter, and maple almond butter. I will post (if this shows up) if I find something that works. Thanks!
I actually found this in my spam folder for some reason :-(.
You made a LOT of changes to the original recipe… I can’t guarantee good results if you make changes to the recipe. That being said, I also stress that it’s important to use a food processor for best blending :).
Sorry again for the delay of the post showing up!
I just made this for my kids (Ages 6 & 8), I used almond butter, 1/3 c brown sugar and 2 pkts Stevia along with ground flax-seed. I didn’t have any graham crackers, so I spooned into into sugar cones- my kids (and husband who hates garbanzo beans!)- loved it! Love your blog, thanks for making healthy taste yummy 🙂