White Bean Edible Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough + Guest Video

Healthy edible white bean chocolate chip cookie dough recipe with video – such an easy healthy treat! The white beans add protein and incredible texture and no, you can’t taste beans! Oh, and see those chips? Healthy homemade chocolate chips!

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White Bean Blender Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

gluten-free, refined-sugar-free, dairy-free & chickpea-free

One cup of this extra-healthy chocolate chip cookie dough, and you will be yearning for more the rest of your days. Haha, okay, a bit dramatic, but seriously, this recipe is a good one! Perfect way to get protein into loved ones which out them knowing.

How?

White Beans Add Creamy Texture and Protein to No-Bake Recipes

Well, it’s the white beans, of course.

White beans are the new chickpeas in edible healthy cookie dough, have you heard the news? Oh, I still love my conventional chickpea edible cookie dough recipe here, but white beans are easier to cream up (there are no shells to remove as there are with chickpeas) and they are even a bit healthier.

And they have the protein and fiber of chickpeas, but they also give you a slew of other nutritional benefits, including potassium and iron, good for shiny hair among other effects; thiamine for a boost to your cognitive abilities, heart-supporting folate and magnesium, and copper to fight inflammation and antioxidants galore!

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How Do White Beans Taste in Dessert?

Now, I was a bit curious as to how a bean normally used in savory dishes such as chili, would taste as a dessert base. It turned out to be the perfect white palate, taking on the lovely vanilla flavor (and I added cinnamon because I love teaming chocolate with cinnamon) and creaming up to represent a mouth-watering cookie dough!

I chose to use organic canned beans though I’m sure freshly cooked beans would work as well. If you use canned, be sure to use organic, to be sure the beans don’t have additional ingredients. And I chose unsalted so I could control the sodium in my dessert.

The combination of ingredients that produced a tasty cookie dough flavor was primarily the cashew butter and the vanilla which is why I used a high-quality vanilla paste but I’m sure extract would work perfectly too.

I know some chickpea recipes add baking soda to get a ‘cookie dough’ flavor but I didn’t here and didn’t miss it – perhaps white beans are closer in cookie dough flavor. The only change I might try next time is to use ground chia seeds instead of ground flax – even ground the flax added a bit of a graininess to the texture that I didn’t think matched true cookie dough.

Chia seeds, I imagine, even ground, would gel up and add to the creaminess. Still, we used this particular recipe in ice cream cones and no one in my family knew they were holding ice cream cones piled high with beans, haha!

I love cinnamon with chocolate so I was rather heavy on this spice, but if you prefer, leave the cinnamon out of it. And taste-test for sweetness. I thought there was almost too much sweetness; while some younger family members thought it needed to be sweeter.

Introducing My Homemade Chocolate Chips

And the chips? Well you can use healthy quality dark chocolate chips or chunks, or make your own if you want – click here for my 3-ingredient recipe for healthy homemade chocolate chips.

What to Do with Healthy Edible Cookie Dough?

There are so many things you can do with it, as with all edible cookie dough recipes.

We keep ours in the freezer and eat it like ice cream in bowls or cones. And I used the conventional chickpea cookie dough here to make hearts for Valentine’s day, so I think this white bean recipe would work in that mold as well.

I know people who eat edible cookie dough like hummus or as a dip, so let your imagination go wild!

Watch Video of White Bean Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Before I sign off this post, I’d like to send a big thank you to my friend Vince Lia who actually made my recipe AND created a youtube video of the process of making my White Bean Edible Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Watch it HERE and tell him what you think of his performance.  He made it so convincing, I wanted to make my own recipe again after I saw it.

Like working with white beans? Here is another recipe that uses them: 2-Ingredient Strawberry Protein Pre-Workout Bites

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White Bean Blender Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough {gluten-free, refined-sugar-free, dairy-free and chickpea-free}

Healthy edible white bean chocolate chip cookie dough recipe with video - such an easy healthy treat!

Course Dessert

Cuisine vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free

Keyword edible cookie dough

Does it keep? freezer-friendly

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 4

Calories 144 kcal

Author Dee Dine

Ingredients

• 1 can (15oz/425gms) white beans organic (navy or cannellini, precooked & rinsed)
• ½ cup cashew butter
• 1 tsp vanilla paste or 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tbsp ground flax seed
• pinch of salt
• 1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips my easy homemade recipe (here)

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

1. Rinse the white beans (navy or cannellini), and pop them in the blender. Easy-peasy! No shells to rub off first as with chickpeas. Cannellini actual do have a thin shell but it’s soft enough to work well in this recipe and need not be removed)

2. Place the beans, cashew butter, vanilla, syrup, cinnamon, flaxseed, and salt into your blender.

3. Blend up until creamy.
4. Put the mixture in a bowl and stir in your chocolate chips with a spoon.
5. Serve in a bowl as a dip or a hummus, in ice cream cones, use in other dessert recipes or press into molds.

Storage

1. Save refrigerated in an airtight container for a week. Freeze for three months.

Nutrition Facts

White Bean Blender Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough {gluten-free, refined-sugar-free, dairy-free and chickpea-free}

Amount Per Serving

Calories 144 Calories from Fat 72

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 8g 12%

Saturated Fat 8g 40%

Sodium 7mg 0%

Potassium 218mg 6%

Total Carbohydrates 30g 10%

Dietary Fiber 3g 12%

Sugars 17g

Protein 8g 16%

Calcium 6.7%

Iron 19.1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.