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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im totaly new to vegan/healthy things, but recently ive decided to change my ways. and as a sugar addict i can tell you this stuff is pretty close to the real thing! im only 16 and this was easy enough to follow, even though i used a blender to make it. totaly satisfied the serious cravings i was having! thanks so much 🙂
I made this for the first time recently when guests came over, and it was a huge hit!!! I served it with Trader Joe’s coconut cookie wafers, and it was to *die* for! My (omnivore) husband was in awe, and my son thought it was incredible, too. I talked myself out of eating it for breakfast the following 2 days — but it was amazing as a mid-morning snack. 🙂 Thank you for your terrific recipes — I can’t tell you how many I’ve bookmarked! I’ve tried several, and I’m working my way through, but there’s just not enough time in the day! Keep up the delicious work, Katie!
I don’t get this recipe. I’m trying so hard! It keeps turning out really thin or tasting like chickpeas still. I feel like i’m following it so closely. Any help?
what food processor do you use? what sweetener do you use and how much? and do you drain and rinse the beans?
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That’s my food processor. I used 2/3 cup of brown sugar, and I drained and rinsed the beans. I’m guessing it might be too much sugar? It gets really dark brown and a little soupy. I didn’t need any milk and had to add extra oats.
Thank you so much for sharing this! It is amazing. My 5 y/o son has wheat and dairy allergies, and your website makes feeding him in a way that doesn’t make him feel like he’s missing out quite a bit easier. I used 2 T each if homemade coconut butter and virgin coconut oil (Nutiva) in the batch I made, and it was superb 🙂
Mmm…my brother doesn’t even like beans and he almost ate it all! haha I don’t know how you come up with these things but they are amazing<3 I enjoy baking/cooking and I always end up eating the final product but now I can make recipes from your blog and not feel so bad 😀 Great job, keep it up. Oh, and you are very pretty (:
Aw thank you! It always makes me happiest when even people who hate beans like the pie! 🙂
Will a hand blender work for mixing the ingredients?
Sorry, I don’t know. I do know I had a lot of trouble with a Vita-mix because the chickpeas were overcrowded and wouldn’t blend.
I made mine last night, with dairy milk and brown sugar, amazing! I put a few tablespoons in my oatmeal this morning so I had cookie dough flavored oatmeal. <3
I took a big bowl of this dip to work. My dept. devoured it. I served it with apple slices, graham crackers, celery nuggets and prezels.
I promised snickerdoodle cookie dough dip next week.
Hi 🙂 I’ve got a question. Can I use soy or sunflower butter insead of nut butter? And (this is probably a very stupid question) what does ‘T’ stands for? Is is tablespoon (or teaspoon)? You can tell I’m new to the cooking world lol
Yes! And tablespoon. Sorry for the confusion!
Thanks for the quick reply!!! And btw I LOVE
Thanks for the quick reply! And btw I LOVE your blog 🙂
Why has it taken me so long to find your site?? I just made this dip (I used about 1/4 c. honey for the sweetener and I think maybe I will use something granulated next time…or add a bit more oatmeal?). I am totally amazed that chickpeas can taste this sinful! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I have been dipping banana spears in it…can’t wait to try it on apple slices!