Have Your Dessert and Feel Good About It Too!

My First Recipe!!!

I’ve been reading a lot about different ways to use beans in desserts to make them healthier.  It’s also all over Pintrest.  So I combined a couple of different recipes that I found and came up with this one!  Because it uses chickpeas, it’s very high in protein.  It’s also low in added sugar, for a cookie/brownie.  According to my roomates (aka. guinea pigs) these bites are yummy AND they had no idea there were chickpeas in it.  SUCCESS!! I hope you find it to be good too.

Chocolate Chip Blondie Bites

(makes 12 bites)

▪   1 1/2 cups chickpeas or white beans (1 can, drained and rinsed) (250g after draining)

▪   3/4 tsp baking powder

▪   1/8 tsp baking soda

▪   level 1/4 tsp salt

▪   1/3 cup brown sugar (depending on how sweet you like things)

▪   2 tsp vanilla extract

▪   1/4 cup ground flax or quick oats (20g)

▪   1/4 cup peanut butter (or other fat source) (see nutrition link below, for lower-cal options)

▪   1 medium banana

▪   1/2 cup chocolate chips

If you have a food processor, this would be a great way to mix this all together.  But if you’re like me and don’t then just add everything (but the chocolate chips) to a large mixing bowl and use a hand mixer and/or a potato masher to mix everything up until it is mostly smooth.  If you cant get those last little bits of chickpea smooth, it’s ok, but it’ll taste better if you can!

Mix in the chocolate chips.  Spoon batter into a greased (I used PAM) muffin tin and fill each about ¾ of the way full.

Bake for about 30 minutes. They’ll look a little undercooked when you take them out, but they firm up as they cool, and you don’t want them to get hard.

ENJOY!