You'd never know these cookies were gluten-free, let alone made out of beans! I'm serious!
My college-aged sister suspects she might have a gluten intolerance. She is just starting out on a gluten-free venture to see if it helps her out. My taste buds wept for her! How will she ever live without cakes, cookies, and breads? I realize people do it all the time, but I'm generally a skeptic about gluten free recipes. They often use expensive, harder to find ingredients that I never have on hand. Chickpea cookies and brownies are all the rage these days so I decided to give my hand at it to see if I could come up with a gluten free cookie to help my sister out. I mean, the girl is in a rigorous nursing program. How can she ever graduate without midnight cookie binges? She shares my love for all things Nutella so I made a cookie that I knew she would love. The dough tasted great, but I was still skeptical that beans could be turned into a cookie. When those babies came out of the oven I knew all would be well. They are soft, moist, and you would seriously never know these cookies were gluten-free, let alone made out of beans!
Ingredients
30 oz (2 - 15 oz cans) garbanzo beans, rinsed, drained, and patted dry
1/2 cup Nutella
1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
1/4 cup honey
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 tsp baking powder
2 cups milk chocolate chips
Instructions
1. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees. Spray a cookie or baking sheet with nonstick spray. Set aside.
2. Combine the beans, nutella, peanut butter, honey, cocoa powder, vanilla, and baking powder in a food processor. Puree until smooth.
3. Stir in the chocolate chips.
4. Place heaping spoonfuls of the dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes in the 350 degree oven.
5. Remove cookies from the baking sheet and let cool on a wire rack.
Chef's Notes:
The dough will be very soft and sticky. If you are having trouble working with the dough try chilling it in the fridge or freezer.
If you want complete control over what goes into your cookie and have it truly be oil-free, try using homemade peanut butter and homemade nutella.
