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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Oh.My.Goodness!!! I want to hug you! Just made this and you are a GENIUS!!! I will absolutely be trying some of your other recipes. Soon. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!
So, I made the cookie dough dip. I added raw sugar, almond milk, flax seed, and a little peanut butter. I held my breath as anti-health-eating hubby took a bite, sweet-tooth 4 yo bit, and my 8 yo son tried it. All loved it and didn’t even question it being “healthy”! Thank you for sharing your talents!
You are a genius. I just made this for my five kids (and one, picky husband.) Not one of them tasted anything amiss and all were confused and delighted that their mom was feeding them cookie dough in the middle of the day. Once I told them the secret ingredient, I burst out laughing, while they just looked at each other, shrugged and went for more. Great site, so happy I found you!
Thanks for the recipe! I used honey butter (lower in fat and naturally sweet) and I added cinnamon and a little bit of oat flour. It was delicious!!
I am a little bit nervous about trying this….seeing the chick peas and what not. I am really looking for the chocolate chip cookie dough taste but I don’t know if this will taste like it? I am most definitely not worried about my weight in fact I could due to put on a few pounds but I am looking to eat healthier like this. My only worry is that It wont taste like cookie dough.
The single oddest and most AMAZING things I’ve ever made/eaten!!! This is my first “Katie” recipe and I can’t WAIT to make more (in fact, I’m going to make the chocolate chip cookies right now too). So how “healthy” is your stuff if you eat mass quantities of it all at once?!?!?!? 😉
LOL! You’ll probably be extra healthy from all that chocolate. 😉
Holy yum sauce—I am so in favor to this recipe. I am making it this weekend for sure.
I make this all the time. Especially for a girls night. My favorite thing to do is- roll to dough into balls, freeze and then (if i am feeling really fancy), I’ll make dip it in some bittersweet chocolate. holy cow!!
Hmm, I just made this after drooling over it for the past few days, but it just tastes way too salty to me! The can of chickpeas I used was apparently slightly bigger than yours (I measured–it was about 10-15 beans over 1.5 cups, but I threw them in there anyway b/c what am I going to do with 10 chickpeas?). I guess I should have splurged the extra 10 cents for the low-sodium beans? Also, I drained but didn’t rinse them–maybe that was the problem? I kept trying to add some milk (ended up with about 3.5 T total) to quell the saltiness, but it won’t go away. I used canola oil instead of nut butter, so I guess I can’t blame that. This doesn’t taste like cookie dough to me 🙁 Any tips, anyone??
Also, I don’t have a food processor (had a small one that broke and don’t have the means to get a decent one)–I used a blender. Are there any tips for doing the recipes on this site with a blender?
Not rinsing can DEFINITELY cause a huge difference. But so can using a blender… I tried it once in a blender and it is MUCH better with a fp.
Well, crap. Wish I’d found your blog BEFORE Christmas! Coulda asked Santa . . .
This recipe did not work for me. I have sweet/salty/vanilla bean paste with chocolate chips in it. It’s about 2/10 stars so I feel like I’ve wasted a lot of expensive ingredients on this one (will go in the trash). The last recipe I tried from this blog was also a failure. I have plenty of experience with vegan/allergen friendly dessert making. I wonder what I’m doing wrong…(I’ve got my vitamix/food processor and the whole she-bang).
Instead of just leaving a comment blasting my blog for bad recipes, wouldn’t it be better to try and tell me more specifics about what you did so maybe I can help figure out where you went wrong? Can you tell me what food processor you used, if you rinsed the beans, and what nut butter you used?