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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Thank you! Found your recipe through Pinterest and knew I had to try this! I left out the oats and non dairy and doubled it all for my work’s pot luck and it was a huge hit! No one could believe it was chickpeas and healthy!
Who are you?! I used to joke around, after I first learned about all of my new allergies, and after I had been baking vegan for a while, that I was the Vegan Baking Queen. I think I must step down from my title, however. I am not gonna lie, I make a mean muffin, but darn girl, you are a pro!!!!!
I had my doubts, because I have always been for flavor when it comes to dessert. Rarely do I consider health when I consider a cookie (because for heaven’s sake it is a cookie!) But then, your Blueberry Pie Pancakes were so darn good…they have become my go-to pancake recipe… that I decided that I just might try this cookie dough recipe. Honestly, I figured it would taste good, but not like cookie dough. Hot Vegan Dog! That is DELISH. The only nut butter I had around the house was Sunflower Seed butter, and so I used half that and half a butter substitute. I am sure it affected the flavor a little. BUT…. I may have already eaten half!!!!
Hats (or crown as it were) off to you, Katie!
hm would that be possible with anything else than chickpeas? like… zucchini for example or pumpkin? just put any vegetable in the mixer and make it taste “cookie-dough-like”?
Hmmm… I don’t know! It sounds like an interesting experiment, though! If you try it, let me know!! 🙂
I made this today and am scared i did something wrong. I’m hoping that it just needs to sit in the refrigerator for a couple hours. When I made it, it came out much thinner than i was expecting it to be. Also, is there a certain kind of nut butter you should use? I used almond butter. I’m scared that that was the problem. Any help?
It should definitely NOT be liquidy at all… make sure you drain the chickpeas completely! I don’t know where else any liquid would come from :-?.
As for almond butter, I personally don’t like the taste much so I wouldn’t use it. But if you like the taste, there’s no reason you can’t use it in this recipe :).
It actually set up quite well in the refrigerator and it tasted yummy! All my friends at our party last night loved it and could not stop eating it. I don’t know if I would try the almond butter again, but I’m not very familiar with the nut butters. I think next time I’ll try it with Splenda, I just used light brown sugar this time.
Would it work to use Splenda as a sweetener for this recipe?? I really want to try it, but that is all i have
I know others have tried it and liked the results. I’ve not tried it.
Can this be made with a regular blender? I don’t have a food processor or magic bullet. I’m just worried that the chickpeas wouldn’t blend smooth enough.
I know others have done it… but the one time I tried, it wouldn’t blend the beans. If you must use a blender, I’d try blending in batches.
Do I NEED to tell you that this is incredible and I can’t WAIT to try making it!!! Wow, am I glad I found your site!!! Looks like a place full of fantastic recipes!!! Thank you!!
This dip is sooooo good!!! What kind of oil can I use instead of the peanut butter? It was good, but just really want a plain choc. chip cookie dough taste.
Canola oil or vegetable oil would be good. Or refined coconut oil (not unrefined, because that would give it a strong coconut flavor).
I made this tonight for a Christmas Party. I will say it looked great but wasn’t that good 🙁 I am still going to try some of the other recipes because they do look so good
Oh no, I’m so sorry you didn’t like it! Can you possibly tell me more about the specific ingredients you used? And did you rinse the beans well? The way I make it, everyone always says it tastes just like real cookie dough! Hopefully if you tell me more about the specific ingredients you used, I can help figure out how you can make it so you’ll like it better :).
What exactly is nut butter?
You can use any nut butter. Nut butter just means whatever one you want to use– peanut butter, cashew butter, almond butter, etc :).