I love baking with cooked chickpeas, also known as canned chickpeas or garbanzo beans. It is so convenient to open a can of chickpeas, drain, dry, and pulse them into a chickpea cookie dough! Chickpeas also create the fudgiest blondies or creamy vegan cookie dough dip. But first, let us see how you can make healthy peanut butter cookies with canned chickpeas.
Why You’ll Love These Cookies
These Chickpea Peanut Butter Cookies are a version of my Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies that use chickpeas as the main cookie dough ingredient. It gives the cookies a great texture without bringing a chickpea taste. Chickpeas are an amazing ingredient that can be made into anything, from replacing eggs in a Chickpea Omelette to creating a perfect meringue in my Vegan Lemon Meringue Pie. These healthy peanut butter cookies taste like vegan blondies, and you will not taste the chickpea at all.
Ingredients and Substitutions
Chickpeas only make the cookies a little healthier, boosting the plant-based protein of the recipe along with the other ingredients, including:
Chickpea – The recipe uses one can of drained, pat-dried chickpeas. One can of chickpeas, also called garbanzo beans, weighs 400g/15oz, including the chickpea liquid. However, this chickpea cookie recipe does not use chickpea water, so you need 1 cup + 1/2 cup of canned chickpeas, about 250g. Oat Flour – Make your own oat flour following my tutorial. Or almond flour would work too, but almond chickpea cookie dough makes cookies softer and more fragile. Another option is spelt flour, or even all-purpose flour would work, though a little less healthy. Natural Peanut Butter – no added sugar, no added oil. You can also use natural almond butter to decrease saturated fat or any nut butter you love, like cashew butter. If you are allergic to all nuts, you can use sunflower seed butter. With my tips on how to avoid green cookies with sunflower seed butter, you can even keep the same vivid color! Maple Syrup or any refined sugar-free liquid sweetener you like. My favorite options are agave syrup or coconut nectar. Baking Powder – some baking powders are not gluten-free, so you can swap baking powder with half the amount of baking soda. Chocolate Chips – peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are even tastier, so add 1/2 cup of your favorite dark (or dairy-free) milk vegan chocolate chips in the cookie dough!
How To Make Chickpea Cookies
In order to make chickpea cookies, you first need to prepare the cookie dough.
More Vegan Chickpea Dessert Recipes
I love using canned chickpeas or chickpea flour in my vegan recipes. It adds protein to your vegan baking recipes and tastes amazing. Below you can find some other delicious recipes using chickpeas:
