I am not a sweets sort of person, but I do love a good chocolate chip cookie. Around Thanksgiving time I was at a dinner where they had a dessert made out of chickpeas. I am relatively new to the gluten free baking scene and I was shocked chickpeas could be used for anything other than hummus, salads or curry. Later that week I decided to create a chickpea cookie. Not just any cookie, but a grain-free chickpea chocolate chip cookie. My first batch was a total soupy fail, but I was determined to figure it out. Five tries later and I created what I believe to be the perfect grain-free chocolate chip cookie.
It is moist like a cookie, it is chewy, it pulls apart like a cookie and when refrigerated it is still soft. It has a subtle sweetness, and once you eat one you better put the rest away because they are that yummy. They are so good that my littlest one was caught red handed with both hands deep within the batter, shoveling it in as fast as she could!
Grain-Free Chickpea Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 Cups of Chickpeas canned or cooked (always rinse your beans before using them)
- 3/4 Cups Almond Butter or any other nuts/seed butter
- 1/2 Cup Pure Maple Syrup
- 3 tsp Vanilla
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Take your food processor and with a chopper blade pour in your chickpeas, almond butter, maple syrup, vanilla, baking soda and baking powder. Mix until you get a creamy mixture, then fold in the chocolate chips.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Cook 15-18 minutes or until toothpick comes clean and let cool on a wire rack.
- These cookies also freeze well and can be made ahead of time.
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We are not a gluten free household, but are trying to eat healthier. Cookies made with pure protein and no butter or granulated sugar sounded too good to be true. All I can say is YUMMY! We made these, doubled the chocolate chips and threw in some walnuts. My husband didn’t like them at first, but when I went to look for some this morning I couldn’t find them. I called him at work and he had taken the whole batch to work to share. Now everyone at work wants the recipe!
Hey Jenn,
This made me laugh I am glad Robert liked them so much! Yeah they are pretty addicting and you can make them with raisins too. Tell him I am glad he likes them and thanks for any shares I get for it. My family loves these and I need to make a batch this week too.
Amee
Made these tonight and I like them a lot. I can still taste a trace of chickpeas, which I’m sure is normal and doesn’t bother me much. Just making sure I wasn’t supposed to rinse the chickpeas first? Thanks 🙂
Hi Heather,
Yes whether you used cooked or canned you should always rinse them. I will go and add that in because I just do it automatically with any kind of bean.
Glad you liked them. 🙂
Amee