Vegan Chocolate Chickpea Blondies

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Let’s be honest. We all want to eat healthy - but we don’t want it to taste healthy. Don’t get me wrong, I am a kale fiend. Except when it comes to dessert, it should taste like a chocolatey pillow. That’s what I have for you today. I saw that Samah from Dada eats makes delicious chickpea blondies and I decided to make my own version that includes ingredients we all probably have in our pantries. This recipe takes around 30 minutes, makes 12 blondies, and tastes like a DREAM. Let’s get baking!

Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 1 can of chickpeas drained and rinsed

  • 1/3 cup peanut butter

  • 1/4 cup maple syrup

  • 1/2 cup sugar

  • 2 tsp vanilla extract

  • 5 TBSP AP flour

  • 1/4 tsp salt

  • 1/4 tsp baking powder

  • 1/4 tsp baking soda

  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips 

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and grease an 8x8 pan with butter or oil for a vegan version.

  2. Drain and rinse chickpeas

  3. Add chickpeas, peanut butter, maple syrup, sugar, vanilla, flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into a food processor (or blender if you don’t have a processor) and process until batter is smooth. You’re adding every ingredient except the chocolate into the food processor/blender.

  4. Fold chocolate chips into batter

  5. Transfer to the buttered/oiled 8x8 baking pan

  6.  Add some chocolate chips to the top if you’d like!

  7. Bake for 20-30 minutes, until knife inserted comes out clean and edges begin to brown. The batter will look a little under-baked, but will come together after cooling! Enjoy!

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Willis Manelski