Acestea Fursecuri cu unt de arahide și năut are soft, fudgy peanut butter cookies made with cooked chickpeas and no flour. It’s a tasty, healthy peanut butter cookie recipe packed with 8 grams of proteins per cookie, perfect for peanut butter lovers. It’s 100% gluten-free, dairy-free, and refined sugar-free!
I love baking with cooked chickpeas, also known as canned chickpeas or garbanzo beans. It is so convenient to open a can of chickpeas, drain, dry, and pulse them into a chickpea cookie dough! Chickpeas also create the fudgiest blonde or creamy vegan cookie dough dip.
But first, let us see how you can make healthy peanut butter cookies with canned chickpeas.
De ce vei adora aceste fursecuri
These Chickpea Peanut Butter Cookies are a version of my Biscuiți vegani cu unt de arahide that use chickpeas as the main cookie dough ingredient. It gives the cookies a great texture without bringing a chickpea taste.
Chickpeas are an amazing ingredient that can be made into anything, from replacing eggs in a Chickpea Omelette to creating a perfect meringue in my Plăcintă vegană cu bezea și lămâie.
These healthy peanut butter cookies taste like vegan blondies, and you will not taste the chickpea at all.
Ingrediente și înlocuiri
Chickpeas only make the cookies a little healthier, boosting the proteine pe bază de plante of the recipe along with the other ingredients, including:
- năut – The recipe uses one can of drained, pat-dried chickpeas. One can of chickpeas, also called garbanzo beans, weighs 400g/15oz, including the chickpea liquid. However, this chickpea cookie recipe does not use chickpea water, so you need 1 cup + 1/2 cup of canned chickpeas, about 250g.
- Făină de ovăz – Make your own oat flour following my tutorial. Or almond flour would work too, but almond chickpea cookie dough makes cookies softer and more fragile. Another option is spelt flour, or even all-purpose flour would work, though a little less healthy.
- Unt de arahide natural – no added sugar, no added oil. You can also use natural almond butter to decrease saturated fat or any nut butter you love, like cashew butter. If you are allergic to all nuts, you can use sunflower seed butter. With my tips on how to avoid green cookies with sunflower seed butter, you can even keep the same vivid color!
- Sirop de arțar or any refined sugar-free liquid sweetener you like. My favorite options are agave syrup or coconut nectar.
- Praf de copt - some baking powders are not gluten-free, so you can swap baking powder with half the amount of baking soda.
- Fulgi de ciocolată – peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are even tastier, so add 1/2 cup of your favorite dark (or dairy-free) milk vegan chocolate chips in the cookie dough!
How To Make Chickpea Cookies
In order to make chickpea cookies, you first need to prepare the cookie dough.
- Start by opening a can of chickpeas. A regular can is usually 15 oz (400g). Then, drain the chickpeas into a sieve, rinse and place on a clean towel. It is better if you roughly dry the chickpeas by rubbing the towel onto them. This prevents overly moist cookies.
- Finally, place the chickpeas into a food processor mounted with the S blade attachment along with the rest of the ingredients. You must use a food processor, not a blender, to make this chickpea cookie dough. In fact, blender jugs are too narrow, and the cookie batter would not blend very well.
- Use a food processor and blend in 30-second bursts, stopping the food processor every 30 seconds to scrape down the sides of the bowl.
- Repeat this blending/scraping process a few times until it forms a sticky thick chickpea cookie dough batter.
- Add the chocolate chips to the batter. Since this is a vegan chickpea peanut butter cookie recipe, I recommend using dark chocolate chips. However, vegan milk chocolate chips taste great if you can find some at the store.
- This peanut butter chickpea cookie batter is very sticky, so you must wet your hands before rolling the dough into cookie balls.
- Then, use a cookie rack covered with a piece of greased parchment paper. I recommend greasing the paper with coconut oil to ensure the cookies will not stick to the paper.
- Next, place each chickpea peanut butter cookie dough ball onto the tray, leaving half an inch of space between each.
- Finally, press the cookie dough ball with your hands to flatten it into a cookie shape. Do not forget to wet your hands often if the batter becomes too sticky.
- Bake the cookies in the oven. These chickpea cookies are soft and fudgy. They won’t get crunchy or harden in the oven. As a result, they bake really fast, usually between 12 to 15 minutes maximum at 350°F (180°C) in regular mode. If you are using the convection mode of your oven, they bake even faster, between 10 minutes and 12 minutes.
- Remove the chickpea peanut butter cookies from the oven when they are golden on top. They will be very soft, but a crust will have formed on the top.
- Then, let them cool down for another 10 minutes on the cookie rack before transferring them onto a cooling rack.
Întrebări frecvente
You can store chickpea cookies in the fridge or in the pantry for up to 4 days.
Yes, freeze them in a box and defrost them on a plate at room temperature for 3 hours before eating.
Yes, canned chickpeas are always pre-cooked. In fact, almost all of the legumes and vegetables that are sold canned are cooked to kill germs and bacteria.
Făină de năut is excellent for making many healthy recipes. It’s a healthy flour, rich in nutrients, that behaves very similarly to regular flour.
However, some recipes like this one call for canned chickpeas. When that’s the case, it’s better not to swap the canned chickpeas for the flour. They are not necessarily interchangeable.
Yes, don’t discard the water from the can! Chickpea water, also called aquafaba, can be used as an egg replacer for making recipes like my Plăcintă vegană cu bezea și lămâie.
More Vegan Chickpea Dessert Recipes
I love using canned chickpeas or chickpea flour in my vegan recipes.
It adds protein to your vegan baking recipes and tastes amazing. Below you can find some other delicious recipes using chickpeas:
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Fursecuri cu unt de arahide și năut
Ingrediente
- 1 ½ ceaşcă Năut conservat - drained, pat dry in a towel (1 can of 15 oz)
- ¾ ceaşcă Unt de arahide (nesărat) - (nota 1)
- ⅓ ceaşcă Sirop de arțar - (nota 2)
- ¼ ceaşcă Făină de ovăz de casă - (nota 3)
- 2 lingurițe Extract de vanilie
- 1 linguriță Praf de copt
- ½ ceaşcă Chipsuri de ciocolată neagră fără lactate - (nota 4)
- ¼ linguriță Sare
Instrucțiuni
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a cookie tray with parchment paper. Slightly oil the paper with coconut oil. Set aside.
- Open the can of chickpea. Mine is 400g/15oz. Wash and drain chickpeas under tap water in a sieve.
- Transfer the chickpeas onto a towel and roughly dry them by rubbing the towel onto the chickpeas. If some chickpea 'skin' comes off, remove it, but you don't have to remove the whole skin for the recipe to work fine as long as the chickpeas are roughly drained.
- Place the chickpeas into the food processor with the rest of the ingredients except the chocolate chips!
- Blend on high speed for 30 seconds, stop, scrape down the bowl of the food processor and repeat these actions a few times until the batter is smooth and there are almost no lumps of chickpeas. It should not take more than 2 minutes in total.
- Scoateți lama și încorporați bucățile de ciocolată neagră cu o spatulă.
- The batter is sticky and thick, so wet your hands, then grab some batter from the bowl (1 cookie is about 2 tablespoons) and roll the cookie dough into a cookie ball between your hands.
- Place the chickpea cookie dough ball on the prepared tray, leaving 1 cm space between each cookie. These cookies will not expand in the oven.
- Slightly wet your hands again and flatten each cookie with your hands into a round cookie shape.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes or until the top is golden brown and crusty on top. The cookies stay very soft, and that is normal. It is a fudgy cookie.
- Cool on the rack for 10 minutes, then slide a spatula under each cookie to transfer them on a cooling rack.
- Se dau la răcit timp de 1 oră sau până ajung la temperatura camerei înainte de a fi consumate.
could I just substitute rolled oats for the oat flour?
You can but they will be more fragile, and crumbly.
I have made these multiple times and they turn out amazing every time!
Mă bucur atât de mult să aud asta!
These are game changer cookies, I have baked them twice now in a span of two days and my toddler has eaten 5 2-bite size cookies. I added a half teaspoon of pumpkin spice, a half teaspoon of espresso powder and big handful of finely chopped dates. Let me tell you, I have been looking for an alternative to peanut butter cookies for a while and this totally satisfies that craving. delicious, thank you so much for the recipe. I think I will be making many more of these in the future. 5 stars doesn’t do it justice.
Thank you so much! I am so happy your toddler loves them too.
OMG! They are absolutely delicious! These days I bake some gluten free cookies as a Christmas present for my gluten free neighbors. Until now, I made Chickpea Flour Cookies, Orange Almond Cookies and Buckwheat Cookies. But let me tell you: these cookies are the best gluten free cookies I have ever made!
Va multumesc foarte mult!
I found this recipe a couple of years ago and absolutely LOVE it. These cookies are my favorite, after I put the kids to bed, snack. They are DELICIOUS and help fill you up. I love them best cold from the fridge.
Va multumesc foarte mult!
These are so good! Thank you!
Estas galletas están exageradamente deliciosas, gracias por compartir. Saludos desde Mexico
Vă mulțumim!
Even my husband loves these! We are trying to eat more plant-based & healthy so I tried these last night. Super easy to make and came out delicious. They are dense & filling indeed, only one cookie needed to satisfy.
Thank you!! I’m glad you both liked these!!
Soooooo good!!! I think the serving size needs to be adjusted though to one batch of cookie dough = one serving.
Thank you! Yeah, I know they’re so good that I tend to eat all of them in one day too 🙂
Can I sub w whole wheat flour?
I made them with whole wheat pastry flour and they turned out great!
Not really, but I have soooo many peanut butter cookies to try, have a look at my rețete de prăjituri.