Chickpea Blondies
Fudgy and vanilla-sweet, these healthy Chickpea Blondies satisfy a sweet tooth without refined sugars! All you need is one bowl, 5 minutes of prep time, and 9 simple ingredients. No oil, gluten, soy, nut-free optional.
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Ingredients & Inspiration
One of my favourite treats is a good, fudgy brownie. Particularly, my Healthy Protein Brownies (which you most definitely should check out). But sometimes I run out of cocoa powder and black beans… which means no brownies for Janelle. So I decided to adapt that recipe to use chickpeas, and thus my Chickpea Blondies were born!
These high-protein, high-fibre blondies use only 9 ingredients, and they turn out so perfectly moist, fudgy and just the right amount of sweet. The best part is that they only need 5 minutes of prep time and come together so easily in a food processor!
Ingredients
- 2 cups canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- ¼ cup oat flour
- 2 flax eggs
- ¼ cup cashew butter (sub any drippy nut/seed butter of choice)
- ⅓ cup maple syrup (sub date syrup)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup plant based vanilla protein powder*
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ cup + 3 tbsp semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips*
Other Mix-in ideas:
Wanna switch things up? Try using vegan white chocolate chips, chopped macadamia nuts, roasted cashews, chopped medjool dates, or toasted coconut flakes!
How to Make Chickpea Blondies
Grab a food processor because that’s the only equipment needed to make these Chickpea Blondies!
- Preheat oven to 350°F and prepare a 9×9 baking tin with parchment.
- Add all ingredients except the chocolate chips into a food processor and blend until a thick batter forms. Remove the blade and stir in the chocolate chips, leaving a few extra to sprinkle on top.
- Pour the batter into the tin and spread into an even layer and top with remaining chocolate chips.
- Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until the top is golden brown and slightly crackled looking.
- Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then carefully remove by lifting with the edges of the parchment and let cool until on a wire rack until just warm before slicing into 9 squares. Serve warm and enjoy!
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Chickpea Blondies
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Preheat oven to 350°F and prepare a 9×9 baking tin with parchment.
- Add all ingredients except the chocolate chips into a food processor and blend until a thick batter forms. Remove the blade and stir in the chocolate chips, leaving a few extra to sprinkle on top.
- Pour the batter into the tin and spread into an even layer and top with remaining chocolate chips.
- Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until the top is golden brown and slightly crackled looking.
- Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then carefully remove by lifting with the edges of the parchment and let cool until on a wire rack until just warm before slicing into 9 squares. Serve warm and enjoy!
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Notes
- Calories: 190
- Protein: 7g
- Carbs: 25g
- Fats: 8g
- Fibre: 4g
