Lately after I scarf down a hugh jass dinner of veggie burgs or noodlies or enchiladas plus three million roasted sweet tater rounds, I stillll want something sweet afterwards. I mean duh. Don’t you?? And sometimes, just sometimes, a piece of dark chocolate doesn’t cut it. WHAT DID SHE JUST SAY?!
Gasp as you will, but we all need one (or seven) of those soft, pillowy, cloud-like cookies after a hard day’s work. The thing is, I still want to nosh on something somewhat nutritious so I don’t go to bed feeling like I ate a white-flour-white-sugar-cookie-the-size-of-my-face. Plus, the more good-for-you foods I can pack in there, the more cookies I’m allowed to eat. Ya know?
And because these cookies are entirely naturally sweetened (youdda bomb, Medjool dates) and have zero refined flour, sugar, butter, or oil, you can totally consider them a snack rather than a dessert. Who would of thought that blending the hell out of chickpeas, nut butter, dates, and cinnamon could be such a party for the taste buds? MAJOR fiesta for the pie-hole, my friends. And to answer your question, no, these don’t taste like chickpeas. Promise. Sometimes I have a chickpea flour breakfast pizza for lunch and a roasted broccoli chickpea burger for din and one to many gingerbread chickpea blondies for snack. And then I have some sweet taters dipped in hummus and I thank the heavens for creating such a fabulously delish and versatile little bean. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from all the damn hummus I eat, it’s that you can never have too many chickpeas in your life.
Eat ’em for breakfast. Eat ’em for dinner. Even for dessert, chickpeas sure are a winner! I write poems in my free time. Print [These Apple Cinnamon Chickpea Cookies make the perfect guilt-free treat! @TheHummusapien"]
