Craving cookies tonight? Â This fun Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe will have you baking up the tastiest treats! Â Plus, as a bonus… they’re loaded with protein, which can help you feel full longer!
So go on and enjoy this guest post delicious twist on chocolate chip cookies by frugal friend Carly…
Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
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Cookie dough is delicious… and yet, I’m not a huge cookie person. Does that make sense? Cookies are generally so high fat and high calories that I sometimes feel like I just can’t justify it (especially when I can eat Cake Balls or Cupcakes for only 100 calories instead). And yet, at the end of the day, there is always a way to make a dish healthier.
After making this healthy chocolate chip cookies dough, I was determined to continue making this delicious treat… but I can’t bring myself to make the exact same recipe over and over and over. Â Gotta reinvent. Â It’s an addiction of some sort.
And so I decided, hey, why not try baking these things? Â It could work, right? Â All in all, I’m surprised by how good these are. Â You will need to flatten them with a spatula, because the thick batter does not self-flatten in the oven. Â Essentially, the shape they’re in when you put them in the oven is just about how they’re likely to come out. Â Other than that tiny tweak, these babies are delicious!
What Your Frugal Friends Are Saying About This Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe…
Michele writes: “Surprisingly very tasty. I will be making these instead of buying cookies from now on!”
Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups Chickpeas, drained
- ½ cup Cashew butter (Almond butter or Peanut butter can be substituted}
- ½ cup Light Brown Sugar
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- â…› tsp Salt
- â…› tsp Baking Powder
- ½ cup Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Combine all cookie dough ingredients — EXCEPT for chocolate chips — in a bowl and mix well. {use a magic bullet or handheld mixer}
- Once no whole chick peas remain, add chocolate chips and stir.
- Scoop 1 inch thick balls onto a sprayed or greased cookie sheet. Before placing in the oven, use the back of a spoon or spatula to flatten the cookies because they will not flatten on their own.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until chocolate chips are melting.
- Remove from oven and let cool.
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Dawn says
I made these cookies this evening, but made a few changes because I didn’t want to run out the the grocery store. I used a can of white beans instead of chickpeas and peanut butter instead of cashew butter. I had to bake them for about 5 minutes longer, but they were amazing. Even my toughest food critic (my 20 month old daughter) loved them and I didn’t feel too guilty for letting her have an extra one because they have so many healthy ingredients in them. Thanks for sharing!
Carly @ Createlive says
Should be around 75calories per cookie if they’re that size… and, even better, the calories are more nutritious ones. Instead of coming mostly from sugar and saturated fat (like a normal cookie), the calories come from the high-fiber and high-protein chick peas and high-protein cashew butter. So, on top of being lower in calories, the calories are “better spent,” so to speak.
-Carly @ Createlive
Heather says
Question: What do these taste like in regard to original/normal chocolate chip cookies? I like to know what to expect before I waste money on ingredients I don’t normally carry in my home. 🙂 Thanks!!
Carly @ Createlive says
Hey Heather,
The taste is very similar. It does taste slightly less sugary. It is similar to the way that an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie generally tastes slightly less sweet than a regular chocolate chip cookie. But overall, the taste is great. If you’re worried, try tasting the batter before baking (because there are no eggs and thus no risk!) and adjust by adding a bit more brown sugar if it isn’t sweet enough for your liking. 🙂