Description
These are not your everyday cookies, but you’d never guess how healthy they are. Made without flour, refined sugar, or butter, these vegan cookies have a secret ingredient: black beans! Rich and fudge-like, the salted tops compliment the flavors perfectly. A healthy way to indulge!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed well
- 3/4 cup pitted dates
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup almonds
- 3/4 cup natural peanut butter (creamy or crunchy)
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
- coarse salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly oil a cookie sheet and set it aside.
- Put all ingredients except chocolate chips and salt into your food processor and process until very smooth. Your dough will be thick. Stir in the chocolate chips. Use a rounded tablespoon to scoop out the dough and then form it into a ball and flatten it to a cookie shape and place it on the cookie sheet. {You can definitely just plop it down, but know they won’t flatten or spread at all and will keep that same plopped-down shape.} Sprinkle each cookie with a pinch of salt. Bake in the preheated oven for 8-10 minutes. Enjoy!
Notes
- Drain and rinse your black beans very well. This will minimize any bean flavor in your cookies.
- You can use a food processor or professional blender to break down the black beans, almonds, and dates for this recipe. I prefer Vitamix if you use a blender.
- Using stevia-sweetened chocolate chips will reduce the overall sugar content of this recipe. (The nutritional information is for regular chocolate chips.)
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: cookies
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 100
- Sugar: 4.5g
- Sodium: 69mg
- Fat: 5g
- Carbohydrates: 12.1g
- Protein: 2.9g