An edible vegan 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 video review of this recipe being made!
Is This Vegan 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 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!
How Do White Beans Taste in 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 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.
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 my friend 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!
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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Edible Vegan Cookie Dough
Ingredients
- 1 can white beans Use (15oz/425gms) can, BPA-free and 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
- ½ cup vegan chocolate chips my easy homemade recipe (here)
Instructions
Make vegan cookie dough
- 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)
- 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.
Eli
Hello
It look delicious! I am allergic to cashew, what can I use Instead?
Thank you
Dee Dine
Eli, any nut butter will work, or even seed butter, such as sunflower seed. Sunbutter is a great brand for that.. Good luck! Dee
Sara
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!
Dee Dine
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
Cassie Thuvan Tran
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!
Dee
Cassie!! Yes, yes!! Thanks for stopping by! Dee xx
Samantha
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.
Dee
Samantha, okay! The can I used is 425 grams of precooked beans! I hope that helps, good luck! Dee xx
Nadia
I'm a huge fan of bean cookie dough! Love that you've served it on an ice cream cone 😀
Dee
Aw, thank you Nadia, it's seemed like a good idea at the time! Dee xx
The Vegan 8
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.
Dee
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
Nisha / RainbowPlantLife
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!
Dee
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
Elavegan
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 😘
Dee
That’s terrific news Ela! I know you do! Love your brownies❤️😍 Dee xx