Chickpea "Cookie Dough" Bites

My impatient chocolate glazing does not do justice to the deliciousness of these things.

Ok, I got seriously excited when I tasted these. They are way better than I expected them to be. I'd had the recipe saved for a while and almost decided not to try them, but I was curious. I now cannot imagine moving forward without these in my life. I will be making them again.

They're mostly chickpeas. They're as low-guilt as I think you can get with a dessert recipe that tastes this good. They're super easy. And they actually, I kid you not, taste like cookie dough.

Check out the original recipe to see how pretty they would be if you took the time to freeze them, coat them completely in chocolate, and freeze them again. I whipped these up in 10 minutes total by drizzling some chocolate on top of the dough balls that I'd just formed, and then I just stuck them into the freezer for a few minutes to solidify the chocolate. But if you have that thing they call "patience" that I've heard about, you should totally do it the pretty way. If nothing else, yours will look more like cookie dough bites and less like frosted cookies.

This is definitely a time to break out the good honey... you can really taste it in the final product. I'm partial to Hanna's Blackberry honey, as previously discussed.

The Recipe:

15 oz can chickpeas, rinsed

3 tb good honey

1 tb sugar

1/8 tsp baking soda

4 tb almond butter

2 tsp vanilla

pinch salt

1 c chocolate chips

Blend all ingredients except chocolate chips in a food processor.
Form into small balls and place on a parchment-paper-lined baking sheet. Freeze until solid.
Melt chocolate by microwaving in glass bowl for 30-second intervals, stirring between.
Drizzle chocolate onto dough balls, or roll to coat them completely.
Freeze again until chocolate hardens, then store in refrigerator.

The Verdict:

Overall grade: A+

Overall reason: Chickpeas+almond butter+honey = cookie dough. Genius.

Time to prepare: 10 minutes if you don't care about the beauty of the chocolate, 2 hours if you do.

Husband quote: (When asked to guess the primary ingredient) "Um, dough?... Cookies?... Yogurt?... Sugar?... What do you put into that chocolate mousse you make... Tofu?"

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