This chickpea cookie dough contains just 7 ingredients, is vegan (dairy-free, egg-free), gluten-free, optionally sugar-free, and packed with plenty of plant-based protein, thanks to a secret healthy ingredient (chickpeas!). Perfect for high-protein, guilt-free snacking!
Watch the video in the post for easy visual instructions. I recommend using a kitchen scale for this recipe.
Process the rinsed and drained chickpeas, nut butter, and vanilla extract in a food processor. Scrape down the sides of the container and mix again.
Add all other ingredients (except the chocolate chips) and mix again.
Finally, add the chocolate chips and stir with a spoon.
Enjoy! I shaped the cookie dough into donuts but that's totally optional! Store leftovers in the fridge.
Notes
Chickpeas: You could also use white beans instead of chickpeas. It's important that you rinse the chickpeas really well.
Nut butter: Any nut/seed butter (e.g. almond butter, coconut butter, cashew butter, sunflower seed butter etc) is fine. To make the edible cookie dough creamier, simply add more nut butter, up to 1/2 cup.
Sweetener: You can use coconut sugar or regular (brown) sugar instead of Erythritol. To make powdered sugar, simply process it in a blender or in an electric coffee/spice grinder for some seconds.
Flour: You can use almond flour instead of coconut flour, but you will probably need to add a little more. Oat flour might work too.
Baked cookies: You can also bake the dough. I made cookies and they turned out fine. You can see a photo of them here. I shaped the dough into cookies and baked them for 12 minutes in the oven at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
The recipe makes about 400 grams of cookie dough. Nutrition facts are for 100 g (1/4 of the recipe) calculated with Erythritol.
Nutrition Facts
Chickpea Cookie Dough
Serving Size
100 g
Amount per Serving
Calories
259
% Daily Value*
Fat
15
g
23
%
Saturated Fat
4
g
20
%
Sodium
293
mg
12
%
Potassium
196
mg
6
%
Carbohydrates
22
g
7
%
Fiber
8
g
32
%
Sugar
9
g
10
%
Protein
9
g
18
%
Vitamin A
14
IU
0
%
Vitamin C
1
mg
1
%
Calcium
97
mg
10
%
Iron
1
mg
6
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.