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    Home » Desserts » Chocolate Desserts » Healthy Edible Cookie Dough

    Healthy Edible Cookie Dough

    Feb 11, 2018 · Updated: May 15, 2022 by Dee Dine · Affliate links disclosure.

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    A healthy edible cookie dough with white beans. This recipe is gluten-free, dairy-free, eggless, flourless, and easy to make, store and eat! It is so high in protein it can supplement a meal. And watch a video review of this recipe being made by a famous youtuber!

    White Bean Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

    Healthy Edible Cookie Dough

    A healthy cookie dough recipe that is actually healthy, no flour, no butter, no preservatives. High in macros, high in protein, and fiber. And no, you can't taste the beans.

    Is This Cookie Dough Safe to Eat?

    Yes! This vegan cookie dough recipe is eggless and flourless, so the risk of contamination is gone. You probably know that eggs shouldn't be eaten raw for the risk of salmonella, but did you know the same is said of flour? You must heat-treat flour before eating it raw.

    Not necessary in this no bake recipe, however. This vegan cookie dough has neither eggs nor flour. What are the ingredients in this recipe?

    Ingredients in This Edible Cookie Dough Recipe

    There are only 2 core ingredients in this recipe, including white beans and cashews. The flavor and other support comes from maple syrup, cinnamon, flax seed and salt. Of course, also chocolate chips folded in.

    White Beans Are Better Than Chickpeas in Cookie Dough

    White beans are the new chickpeas in healthy edible cookie dough recipes. Have you heard the news? Oh, I still love my conventional chickpea edible cookie dough recipe . However 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.

    Both chickpeas and white beans provide protein and fiber. However, white beans give you more nutritional benefits, including potassium and iron, good for shiny hair among other effects. Also thiamine for a boost to your cognitive abilities, heart-supporting folate. As well as magnesium, and copper to fight inflammation and antioxidants galore!

    Homemade Dark Chocolate Chips {3-ingredients - vegan, glutenfree, dairy-free}

    How Do White Beans Taste in Edible Cookie Dough?

    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. The beans take on the lovely vanilla flavor (and I added cinnamon because I love teaming chocolate with cinnamon). They also creamed up beautifully to represent a mouth-watering cookie dough!

    I chose to use organic canned white beans - navy, great northern, cannellini, or baby lima white 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.

    White Bean Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
    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.

    Chickpea-based edible cookie dough recipes need some baking soda to disguise the bean flavor, but you don't need that with white bean edible cookie dough recipes.

    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.

    How to Make This Edible Cookie Dough

    Make this edible cookie dough in just three quick steps! Watch the video to see how Youtuber Vince Lia makes it.

    STEP 1: Rinse the beans, add those and warmed cashew butter to a high speed blender. Blend until creamy. Add the rest of the ingredients. Blend until creamy.

    STEP 2: Taste test for sweetness or a need for more cinnamon. If it seems too dry, add a touch of nut milk. Blend until creamy again. I found the flavor best for eating after the batter is chilled. So put it in the container of your choice, whether that is a parchment-lined loaf pan for scooping, or a covered jar for long-term storage, or pressed into paper cupcake liner or molds.

    STEP 3: And refrigerate them for at least 30 minutes.

    Watch Video of My Edible Vegan Cookie Dough Recipe by Youtuber Vince Lia

    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.

    Possible Additional Ingredients to Add

    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 This Edible Cookie Dough Recipe?

    There are so many things you can do with this healthy edible cookie dough recipe. Serve it in a jar with a spoon, spread on toast, layer in a dessert, use as an ice cream mix in, freeze in ice cube trays, roll into cookie dough balls. I know people who eat edible cookie dough like hummus or as a dip, so let your imagination go wild!

    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 protein cookie dough recipe would work in that mold as well.
    Also, here are a few recipes that involve edible cookie dough!

    Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars with Fudge Filling
    Cookie Dough Bars

    And recently we used this protein cookie dough inside of chocolate truffles! See below!

    Edible Chocolate Chip Cookie dough balls on a white board.

    To make these truffles, use this edible cookie dough recipe and follow my black pepper chocolate truffle recipe's process to coat them in chocolate.

    Like working with white beans? Here is another recipe that uses them: Strawberry Protein Energy Snack
    And here are other delicious easy protein recipes:

    • Easy Sugar Cookies
    • Sugar Cookie Truffles
    • Chocolate Spice Truffles
    • Easy Truffles Recipe
    • Protein Ball Recipes
    • Chocolate Covered Chickpea Snack

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    White Bean Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

    Healthy Edible Cookie Dough

    Created by Dee Dine
    A healthy edible cookie dough made with white beans. This recipe is eggless, flourless, easy to make, store and eat! Vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free and so high in protein it can supplement a meal. The protein comes from an unlikely ingredient, white beans! White beans are much easier to use than chickpeas in edible cookie dough recipes, and provide a creamier texture, and you can't taste the beans. And watch video review of this recipe being made!
    5 from 4 votes
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Cook Time 10 mins
    Total Time 20 mins
    Cuisine vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free
    Servings 6

    Ingredients
     

    • 1 can white beans Use (15oz/425gms) can, BPA-free and organic (navy, cannellini or great northern, 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
    • ½ cup chocolate chips my easy homemade recipe (here)

    Instructions
     

    Make vegan cookie dough

    • Rinse the white beans, 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)
    • Place the beans, cashew butter, vanilla, syrup, cinnamon, flaxseed, and salt into your blender.
    • Blend up until creamy.
    • Put the mixture in a bowl and stir in your chocolate chips with a spoon.

    Storage

    • Save refrigerated in an airtight container for a week; I use a glass ball jar with lid. Freeze for three months.

    How to Use Cookie Dough

    • So many uses. Serve in a bowl with a spoon. Dollop over ice cream, or fold into homemade ice cream. Use as a layer on brownies. Push into molds and freeze. Put chunks into cookies and bake.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 144kcalCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 8gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 8gSodium: 7mgPotassium: 218mgFiber: 3gSugar: 17gCalcium: 67mgIron: 3.4mg
    Keyword edible chocolate chip cookie dough recipe, edible cookie dough, flourless cookie dough, protein cookie dough, vegan cookie dough, white bean cookie dough
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    Dee Dine is founder of Green Smoothie Gourmet, a plant based recipe blog, and author of two recent cookbooks, Crazy Healthy with 4 Ingredients and the immunity-boosting smoothie /juice/wellness shot book, 4-Ingredient Smoothies + Juices . On this blog you'll find incredibly healthy easy recipes with hidden veggies for anyone wanting to eat healthier, regardless of diet. Dee has graduate degrees in sciences and journalism, is editor at The Feedfeed and a nutritional expert at WikiHow. More about Dee Dine here.

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    Comments

    1. Eli

      January 20, 2020 at 2:12 pm

      5 stars
      Hello
      It look delicious! I am allergic to cashew, what can I use Instead?
      Thank you

      Reply
      • Dee Dine

        January 23, 2020 at 12:03 pm

        Eli, any nut butter will work, or even seed butter, such as sunflower seed. Sunbutter is a great brand for that.. Good luck! Dee

        Reply
    2. Sara

      June 25, 2019 at 9:43 pm

      This "cookie dough" is DELICIOUS!! I have been searching for processed-sugar-free alternatives to sweets that I love, and this is DEFINITELY a winner! I made this a few days ago and it is already gone, but I'll be making more soon! My only question is how long does this stay good? Thank you so much for this recipe, I love it and I love your site!

      Reply
      • Dee Dine

        June 26, 2019 at 2:30 pm

        Sara, thank you for your feedback. So happy you loved this recipe! I would keep it in the refrigerator in an airtight container for four days or less. After that, freeze. We've had batches frozen for at least two months. Hope that helps! Dee xx

        Reply
    3. Cassie Thuvan Tran

      May 03, 2018 at 11:52 am

      Looks heavenly! This cookie dough--OMG--would be perfect as a base for other flavored vegan cookie dough! I'm getting ideas for cookies n' creme, brown sugar cinnamon, oatmeal raisin, and double chocolate chip!

      Reply
      • Dee

        May 03, 2018 at 3:41 pm

        Cassie!! Yes, yes!! Thanks for stopping by! Dee xx

        Reply
    4. Samantha

      March 03, 2018 at 8:54 am

      Oohhhh looks delicious! In Athens Greecen i can't get tinned beans unless they have tomato sauce with them. If i swap for cooking from scratch.... 1 cup dry beans is roughly 2 cups cooked. So just wanted to ask the grans of tinned beans you used was. That way i will know if only 1/2cup dtied beans is needed. Thank you.

      Reply
      • Dee

        March 03, 2018 at 4:54 pm

        Samantha, okay! The can I used is 425 grams of precooked beans! I hope that helps, good luck! Dee xx

        Reply
    5. Nadia

      February 17, 2018 at 8:20 am

      I'm a huge fan of bean cookie dough! Love that you've served it on an ice cream cone 😀

      Reply
      • Dee

        February 18, 2018 at 4:35 pm

        Aw, thank you Nadia, it's seemed like a good idea at the time! Dee xx

        Reply
    6. The Vegan 8

      February 12, 2018 at 12:13 pm

      Oh yes, I love using white beans! I make super fudgy brownies with them and nobody has a clue there is beans in them! This cookie dough looks so creamy and all that chocolate on top looks heavenly! I also prefer the taste of white beans over chickpeas. Chickpeas are way too strong in my opinion.

      Reply
      • Dee

        February 12, 2018 at 11:06 pm

        Brandi, thank you so much! I agree, it's so easy to hide beans and they do make it so creamy. I like chickpeas in some situations, but these white beans were a fun discovery! Thanks for stopping, Dee xx

        Reply
    7. Nisha / RainbowPlantLife

      February 11, 2018 at 8:22 pm

      Oooh i love edible cookie dough! I made a similar recipe last summer and fooled all my friends into thinking it was decadent cookie dough (not made with beans)! This looks so droolworthy, Dee!

      Reply
      • Dee

        February 11, 2018 at 9:45 pm

        Nisha, haha, that is very funny. I hope they took it well when they learned how healthy it was! Thanks for stopping by, Dee xx

        Reply
    8. Elavegan

      February 11, 2018 at 2:55 pm

      5 stars
      Dee!!! This recipe sounds like a winner. I can't wait to give it a try because I love using beans in my desserts. Thanks so much 😘

      Reply
      • Dee

        February 11, 2018 at 3:27 pm

        That’s terrific news Ela! I know you do! Love your brownies❤️😍 Dee xx

        Reply

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