food for freude Chewy Chocolate Cookies with Magic Chickpeas gluten-free, vegan, flourless Yield: 16 1 ½” cookies

Prep time: 15 min.

Baking time: 15 min.

Total: 30 min.

These chocolate cookies with peanut butter are simply amazing and taste astoundingly like the real deal. You would never guess that the main ingredient are actually chickpeas. Such chewy deliciousness – with a pleasantly surprising healthified twist. Ingenious. Ingredients

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50g (half a chocolate bar / almost 1/2 cup) dark (72% cacao) chocolate 1x 400g (14 ounce) can (unsalted) chickpeas, drained and rinsed (makes about 240g) ½ ts baking powder Pinch of ground vanilla bean 60ml (1/4 cup) one-ingredient peanut butter 2 TS coconut sugar – or sweetener of choice like honey or rice syrup Pinch of salt – only if your chickpeas don’t contain any salt 1 ts coconut oil, melted or soft

ts = teaspoon (5ml), TS = tablespoon (15ml) Equipment

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The Basic (cutting board, chef’s knife) Food processor Spatula

Directions

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Start with preheating your oven to 180°C (355°F).

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Chop the chocolate bar piece into small bits and pieces.

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In a food processor add all ingredients and briefly blitz or pulse a few times to combine everything.

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Take the cookie dough out, then form a big ball, flatten it and divide it in halves until you get 16 pieces. Roll each piece into a ball, then slightly flatten them (they won’t spread out in the oven like normal cookies) and place them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper (or silicon mat).

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Bake for about 10 minutes or until the chocolates seem melted and the cookies get a slightly browner color.

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Carefully take them out. (They will not set like normal cookies and remain rather delicate.)

Adapted from Texanerin.com The Original Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites Notes

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One-ingredient peanut butter totally means they only consist of finely ground peanuts – no sugar, no salt, no (vegetable) oil. You can ground the whole vanilla bean instead of only scraping the seeds of the pod, and not wasting anything. There’s also already ground vanilla bean available in the supermarket.

http://foodforfreude.com/chewy-chocolate-cookies-with-magic-chickpeas By Oanh Hoang