Flourless Peanut Butter Chickpea Cookies – only six ingredients and naturally sweetened with dates! Gluten Free + Vegan
Flourless Peanut Butter Chickpea Cookies
Another chickpea based dessert to add to the ever growing collection! Sounds weird, sure, but one bite and you’ll be sold!
How to Make: Peanut Butter Chickpea Cookies
Altogether these cookies are super easy to make requiring only 6 ingredients and about 30 minutes to make!
You will need a food processor or at least a very strong blender to make these, but so long as you have that these will be ready in no time.
To get started simply add all of your ingredients (except for the chocolate chips) to your food processor and blend until you have a thick, smooth dough. This will take about 2-3 minutes to do. You may need to stop and scrape down the sides occasionally.
Once the dough has been formed you can stir in the chocolate chips. This can be done while the dough is still in the food processor but I found it less work by moving it all to a separate bowl first.
The dough at this point will very thick and sticky. Keep in mind that the cookies won’t change much after baking so how you place them on the tray is how they will look in the end. You can drop the dough on to the cookie sheet by the spoonful without shaping, roll into neat little balls or form flat little discs.
Since the dough won’t spread much while baking you can fit quite a few cookies on the tray – just make sure to leave a little space in between each cookie so the air can travel through and bake these evenly.
The end result is a cookies that’s soft, chewy and lightly sweetened. These are so soft that texture almost feels a little under baked which I personally LOVE in a cookie.
These are also really great if you’re trying to cut back on too many sweets and snacks!
Other healthy cookies you might enjoy:
- Sunflower Seed Chocolate Chip Cookies (vegan + paleo + nut free)
- Healthy No Bake Oatmeal Cookies (vegan)
- Sweet Potato Breakfast Cookies (vegan + pale0 + nut free)
Peanut Butter Chickpea Cookies
Peanut Butter Chickpea Cookies - only six ingredients and naturally sweetened with dates! Gluten Free + Vegan
Ingredients
- 1 14 oz /400 gram can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 250 grams medjool dates, pitted*
- pinch of salt
- 3/4 cup dairy free chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F/175°C. Line or lightly grease a large cookie sheet. Set aside.
- Add the chickpeas, peanut butter, vanilla, dates and salt to a food processor and process until smooth.
- Stir in the chocolate chips. You can do this in the food processor by hand but I found it easier just to move everything to a separate mixing bowl.
- Scoop out the dough about 1 1/2 -2 tablespoons at a time. Keep in mind the cookies will keep their shape after baking so you can roll into neat little balls or just drop by the spoonfuls onto your baking tray. The cookies won't spread much so you can fit quite a few on your tray.
- Place in the oven and bake for 11-12 minutes until the tops have goldened slightly. Let cool on the tray a few minutes before moving then enjoy!
Notes
*Instead of dates you can use 1/2 cup maple syrup or agave (for vegan option) or honey.
Keep these stored in an airtight container at room temperature or in the fridge for up to one week.
You can use any time of nut or seed butter that you like here (cashew, almond, sun butter, etc).
These will not work with chickpea flour and have not been tested with any other type of flour.
If your dates are looking a little dry let them soak for about 5 minutes in a bowl of hot water to plump back up. They will blender easier this way.
I used mini chips here because I have a TON that need to be used by you can use regular chocolate chips if you prefer.
These make about 20-24 cookies. When calculating the nutritional info I went for the average of 22 cookies and calculated them using dates. If you end up with a differing amount of cookies and use an alternative sweetener you can find the nutritional info for your specific recipe using MyFitnessPal.
Nicole Madsen says
Super easy and delicious! What a great recipe! I had to put the chickpeas and dates into my processor in batches since it’s a small one. Then I mixed up everything in a bowl with a fork and added in the chocolate chips. Thank you for sharing an awesome recipe, I can’t wait to make these for friends.
Sarah Nevins says
Hi Nicole! I’m so glad to hear you enjoyed these! Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to come back and let me know what you thought 🙂
pepper says
These have a very strange texture, not cookie like, but tasted pretty good, kinda like a brownie…would be good with a scoop of ice cream.
Sarah Nevins says
Glad you enjoyed the taste though! Love the idea of eating them with ice cream!
Dr. J says
Last night my wife and I were going to go visit some meat-eating, keto friends and we wanted to take a dessert we could both enjoy. We made these cookies when we got home from work, and — start to finish — took less than an hour to have two dozen cookies. Since our friends were doing keto, we substituted 1/3 C artificial sweetener for the dates, and used sugar-free chocolate chips. You’d never know the difference. The cookies were a hit with our friends, and are something we’re going to make regularly!
Sarah Nevins says
I love it! So glad you were all able to enjoy them together! Thanks so much for coming back to let me know what you thought about cookies. Good to know about the sugar sub too!
Bryan says
I would’ve never thought of using chickpeas in a cookie recipe! It’s definitely an interesting twist, I need to try this myself now haha thank you, great recipe!
Sarah says
Thanks Bryan! Weird but definitely worth it! Hope you like them!