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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Is there a substitute for nut butters?? My man is allergic to nuts!!
Try oil or try sunbutter.
Hey Katie,
I heard about “clean-eating” for the first time earlier this year & as I had been wanting to lose some pounds I kept trying to eat clean but I always fell back into old patterns. During this stage of my eating habits I tried to make this recipe (i don’t even remember if I had all of those ingredients, haha) and when I tried it, I was kinda “disappointed” because it simply didn’t satisfy the cravings I still had back then – the cravings for sugary, grossly sweet unhealthy food. I have been committedly clean-eating and completely changing my eating habits for 3-4 months now and as I had some chickpeas left in my kitchen I remembered this recipe. It wasn’t even out of my food processor and I’d already started eating like half of the batch (this is my way of saying HOLY MOLY, this is GOOD.) I think it’s really funny how your taste buds and preferences change when you actually change your eating habits (reminded me of the concern you mentioned when giving your “unhealthy” friends some of your recipes to try). but seriously, you saved my cookie dough craving – which can be pretty dominant and hence pretty tempting to me not-so-healthy! thank you so much! what i did is i took only 3 tbsps of PB, then added some vanilla whey instead of the vanilla extract (bc A i didnt have any at home and B I told myself I just made it a little bit healthier haha) and I used 90% dark chocolate. as a sweetener I used 1/3cup of stevia & 1/3 cup of a mixture of agave syrup & honey. & what can I say? I’m gonna try and save the other half for tomorrow but the chance that there’s still gonna be something left the day after that pretty much equal zero. your blog & recipes are so, so great – please keep up the outstanding work! XO
I made this for company with a lot of modifications. In my opinion, this has a taste and texture of beans, and I followed the recipe to a T, including the 2/3 cup brown sugar. It just didn’t have the rich mouthfeel of a non-vegan, unhealthy dessert made with tons of butter and/or full-fat dairy. I added quite a bit more cane sugar, maple syrup, roughly 1/3 cup whole wheat pastry flour, roughly 1/4 cup oats, a couple T coconut oil, and some other minor modifications. It ended up turning out really well though. I stirred in the chocolate chips as well as M&M’s. I would cut down on the amount of chickpeas next time and keep my other changes.
This looks delicious but I’m wondering if you have a substitute for nut butter? My daughter has a peanut and tree nut allergy and she hated the sunflower butter I bought her. She is also on a gluten free diet so I’m so glad this recipe could be made GF! I know she will love this.
Try oil.
I would really love it if you had nutrition info on all your recipes.
All recipes as of 2013 have nutrition facts.
love love love this. just made it! I decided to add softened dates (I use majool dates soaked in water) when making this as the sweetener. the texture of dates makes it even more doughy. 🙂
Wow – just made this with left over mung beans and mostly raw ingredients and it is still, so tasteee! (raw honey for sweetener, cacoa nibs, raw seed butter and home made cashew milk) YESSSS!
omg… omgomg… im rediculously excited right now because I tried this recipe for the first time today and it was EXACTLY like cookie dough :O i cant even believe it! i used white beans, left out the oats, two tablespoons of PB one of apple sauce, a few drops of liquid stevia and the rest the same. i HIGHLY recommend this recipe.
i stuck this in the microwave after making it, and it was like gooey warm cookie dough <3
Thank you so much for this recipe! I tested it on my 9yr old (who HATES beans) and he and his friends cleaned my bowl! I added a pinch of cinnamon to mask any remaining bean taste. Sneaky mom one…picky kids zero!