Chocolate Chip Cookies With Chickpeas

Submitted by sparklejem00

"This recipe comes from Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook, "Deceptively Delicious.""

 

• Ready In: 21mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 24 cookies

ingredients

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 3⁄4 cup light margarine
• 2 egg whites
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 (15 ounce) can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
• 2 cups chocolate chips
• 2 cups flour
• 1⁄2 cup old fashioned oats
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a cookie sheet with baking spray.
2. Beat sugar and margarine until smooth.
3. Beat in egg whites and vanilla, then add chickpeas and chocolate chips. Add flour, oats, baking soda and salt.
4. Drop by tablespoonful onto baking sheet.
5. Bake 11 to 13 min, until golden brown.

Reviews

[jswinks]

These are seriously so great! Thanks for posting! (and BTW - chickpeas and garbanzo beans are the same thing if you're searching the grocery aisle for them...) Also, after making these again, I realize that I pureed the beans last time, makes a much better cookie I think than the whole beans.

 

[sweetchocolate]

These were so good! I had to toss the chickpeas and sugar mixture in the blender to make it smoothe. The cookies had a wonderful flavor ...my 13 month old LOVED them! So did I. They don't spread much when baking though. Next time I will flatten them just a little, so that we don't end up with deceptively delicious um biscuits! Thanks!

 

[dlee1602]

My kids loved this cookie and begged for seconds and thirds. I used the whole egg because I was too lazy to separate and I also tried it with mint chocolate chips. Awesome!

 

[Sweetsinthecity]

After slight modifications its a winner! Instead of margarine I used light olive oil (about a 1/4 less). I used raw agave (1/4 less) than sugar, used 2 whole eggs and blended with chick peas in food processor which eliminated the chick pea bumps and improved taste, substituted 1/4 of chocolate chips with butterscotch chips along with chocolate chips and added 1cup chopped pecans to mix. Flattened the spoonfuls a little too. Perfect and yummy!!!

 

[mlk8825]

Hit. Some people, only AFTER I tell them what is in it, comment on the texture - they're just puffier. And delicious - and give you more nutritional bang for your buck.