Cookie Monster Chickpea Cookie Dough is a delicious and fun dessert. This plant-based cookie dough is completely edible as-is, and sugar-free!
Let me get the obvious questions out of the way first...
...yes, this cookie dough is blue.
...it's made from whole food, plant-based ingredients.
...it's completely vegan, refined sugar-free, and gluten-free.
So, in short, this Cookie Monster Chickpea Cookie Dough the most fun and healthy dessert you could ever imagine.
What makes this cookie dough amazing is that you can just take a spoon to the entire batch and not feel at all bad about eating the dough before you baked the cookies. Because you were supposed to eat the dough!
Also, you still get to eat baked cookies. Because, in true Cookie Monster style, you need actual cookies. What a win - cookie dough and cookies.
I pretty much listed it all above, but here are the highlights again:
This is the best not-so-secret secret about this recipe! There's NO food dye involved. No chemicals. Nothing.
The 'secret' is blue spirulina. It's naturally a deep, bright blue and it's perfect for creating a beautiful Cookie Monster blue.
What is blue spirulina?
Spirulina is a blue-green algae. It is a bacteria that is high in protein, filled with B vitamins, and high in other nutrients like copper and iron. It’s considered a health food because of its high nutrient content.
You can get spirulina in pills or tablets, but for this recipe we’ll use spirulina powder. Spirulina comes in two different colors – for this blue recipe we’ll use blue spirulina.
If you’re a little concerned about putting algae in your cookie dough, don’t worry. You can’t taste it at all! It just turns the dough a beautiful Cookie Monster blue!
Alternatively, if you don’t want to use spirulina at all, you can still make this recipe. You won't get the blue color, but all the flavors of this cookie dough will still be there!
So besides blue spirulina, what's in this cookie dough? And how is it so healthy?
Step 1. In a food processor, blend the oats into a flour.
Step 2. Add the chickpeas, cashew butter, maple syrup, vanilla extract, and spirulina. Blend until smooth.
Step 3. Crumble the chocolate chip cookies into small chunks.
Step 4. Transfer the cookie dough into a bowl and sprinkle with cookie chunks. Enjoy!
Praise God for this cookie dough. We are grateful for healthy treats that we can have fun eating. Help us to enjoy our food.
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Cookie Monster Chickpea Cookie Dough is a delicious and fun dessert. This plant-based cookie dough is completely edible as-is, and sugar-free!
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