Peanut butter chickpea blondies, healthy

If you’re swimming in canned food right now, here’s a surprising recipe you can make: vegan chickpea blondies! Specifically healthy peanut butter chickpea blondies with chocolate chips inside. This simple healthy dessert recipe is flourless, grain-, dairy- and gluten-free, vegan and it’s satisfying.

Healthy Peanut Butter Chickpea Blondies

You know how there are tons of recipes out there about bean brownies, chickpea blondies and lentil gingers? We always looked at those and went “Naaaah, we're good”.

Except for one time years ago, when we were in that stage of experimenting and made bean brownies and brought them to work and to our neighbor.

“They’re so satisfying. What is that spice you used? It’s so unique”…She asked naively, never suspecting in her 80-year long life that you can put some sugar on beans and turn them into a chocolate dessert.

“Oh, not much. Just some spit and beans”. We replied humbly as if we didn’t know for a fact we had baked a reliable thing in the universe.

She looked at us and we never heard of her again. Maybe she just prioritized other things like staying away from weirdos who eat beans with chocolate. (and by she we mean our neighbor…”she” was an old woman with a passion for baking, overusing sugar and spying on her neighbors).

But, hey, people at work loved those brownies. We liked those brownies, we just never made them again. Ever. Not until we found myself playing with cans the other day.

So brownies are coming (they were satisfying!!!!) but for now let’s focus on the blondies, that we're not gonna lie to you we saw this pin by Ambitious kitchen and our mouth said to us: “You need this, it’s exciting”. They were pretty mesmerizing and we've had dreams about them for a few weeks, not gonna pretend.

So we used our sister’s oven again and we put our own twist on the recipe with more peanut butter and dates instead of maple syrup. Well, we know we shouldn’t eat that much peanut butter because We had kidney stones last year, but the other day, we didn’t wear rubber gloves when we went to the store, so we've decided we're living on the edge now. After that we came home, washed our hands and took a shot of vodka to disinfect internally too. 10 am, we're doing great.

How it comes together

It’s simple. 4 Steps:

1. Open a can of chickpeas and take care of them as if they have an infection. Rinse them well and then drain them.
2. Put them and all the other ingredients into a blender or if you’re like us and like using an immersion blender for all your cooking – use that and a bowl. Process until smooth.
3. Spread the mixture in a baking pan, make sure to save yourself the washing and line it up with some parchment paper. Then add chocolate chips or if you’re like us – chop some chocolate and put it on top then press it into the mixture with your spoon, because you don’t know how to use other utensils.
4. Bake, cool off and slice! Cool off is definitely the hard part.
5. Why do we say “If you’re like us” all the time.

We've shared these blondies with our sister, our dad and our nephew and they all loved them, but we must say most of these blondies, like many other awards in this universe, went to us. That’s right, the chickpea blondie goes to the narcissist who said “If you’re like us” 3000 times throughout this recipe post.

Now, we're gonna be honest here, after cleaning up an entire tray of these chickpea blondies we wasn’t feeling like a Vitoria secret model or Beyonce or anyone who isn’t overly bloated. We guess, we were, in fact, “kinda” bloated from eating an entire can of chickpeas with 2/3 cup of peanut butter. But were they satisfying? Yes. Will we do it again? Probably not all of them within 24 hours. Might need to buy a mini tray and some self control on the black web.

If you do have self-control just like some freak who naturally has everything – use it when you make these blondies and don’t eat everything at once. Also, they’re great for meal prep if you’re still doing it while you’re staying at home. Ha-ha-h-ha staying at home, staying at home…staying at home. Someone should remake this song.

After making the brownies too, we're now ready to go and make a savory dish with our cans.