Lately, I have been seeing chickpea cookie dough recipes everywhere.
I was shocked when I first saw it because I didn’t understand how chickpeas could be turned into anything sweet enough to eat as a dessert.

And I proved myself right when I first tried to make chickpea cookie dough. Gross.
I was about to give up on chickpea as an ingredient for any dessert when I found Texanerin’s “The Original Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites.”

They looked so chocolatey and delicious and I just had to try them.
So, I did – with just a few alterations.

Here’s what I used to make 8 of these delicious bites:

• 1/2 can of chickpeas (drain and pat them try w/ a paper towel!)
• 1/4 cup peanut butter
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tbsp honey
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips

& here’s what I did:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and prepare a pan with aluminum foil
2. Blend the chickpeas in a food processor (I actually used a NutriBullet)
3. Once well blended (no whole chickpeas in there), add the rest of the ingredients, except for the chocolate chips
4. Blend together until well-mixed
5. If the mixture is warm from blending, let cool for a few minutes before folding in the chocolate chips
6. Scoop rounded spoonfuls of the dough onto the pan and form into balls with your hands (you should get about 8 balls out of these ingredients)
7. Bake in oven for ~10 minutes
8. The balls will still be soft when you remove them from the oven, but trust me: they should be done after 10 minutes
9. Let cool slightly before munching!

FINALLY.
A delicious chickpea dessert!!!
I am so happy I was able to mask the chickpea flavor this time around. Just when I had lost all hope, chickpeas totally redeemed themselves as a dessert ingredient.

If you haven’t made chickpea cookies yet, give these a try & let me know what you think.