Healthy Cookie Dough Dip

You may remember my previous attempt at making a healthy dessert with garbanzos – Healthy Deep Dish Cookie Pie. That was pretty much a disaster because the hard-to-miss garbanzo flavour was embedded in that pie and my Official Treat Taster wouldn’t touch it. Even I wasn’t too keen and thought it tasted much more like a health bar than dessert.

Luckily, things worked out better this time. Much better. I blended and blended and blended this until I thought my food processor was going to give out, just so I could gorge on cookie dough and tell myself I was being healthy. I offered a scoop of this on a cookie to my Official Treat Taster (without telling him it was made with garbanzos, but that goes without saying). He absent-mindedly ate it then looked at my funny and politely said “It’s unusual, isn’t it?” I told him the main ingredient and he threw me his favourite I-can’t-believe-you-tried-to-poison-me-with-something-remotely-healthy look and went back to playing games on his phone.

I loved this recipe and was literally eating it by the spoonful. For several days it was my lunch at work. That’s it – just cookie dough eaten out of a plastic container with a spoon. I advise you to run out to the store and stock up on garbanzos because once you try this, you’ll want to be making it again and again!

Healthy Cookie Dough Dip adapted from Chocolate-Covered Katie

Ingredients

250g garbanzos

Pinch of salt

Pinch of baking soda

4 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 tablespoons peanut butter

2 tablespoons milk

10 tablespoons oats

2/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup chocolate chips

Recipe

Add all the ingredients except the chocolate chips to food processor and blend until completely smooth. Stir in the chocolate chips and serve with cookies, crackers or fruit.

This also makes a great healthy topping for chocolate cupcakes – don't take my word for it, try it yourself!



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