Healthy Cookie Pie!

[donutsweeper]

Vegan, gluten free and completely delicious.

This is one of those recipes that comes about when you are trying to cook for a very diverse audience, in my case a sister who vegan, a father with a serious corn allergy, a gluten-sensitive niece and several meat-and-potato types who would scoff at anything deemed 'healthy'.

No one will notice the fact you've replaced the flour in this recipe with beans. Seriously. In fact, if you don't tell them they will NEVER KNOW. Neither will they clue into the fact you've replaced most of the sugar with dates, or the oil with peanut butter. (If you're dealing with a peanut allergy then use an unsweetened applesauce and oil combination instead.)

Healthy Cookie Pie
(adapted from here)

2 15oz cans garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed (3 cups)
1/4-1/3 C dates (I've used either medjool or deglet noor) chopped
1/2 C peanut butter (any kind works, from skippy to "natural" to making your own with freshly roasted peanuts)
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 C brown sugar
1 C quick gluten free oats (or regular quick oats)
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 C chocolate chips (whatever kind works for you- vegan, gluten free, regular, etc) I have replaced this with raisins and/or carob chips, but... in my mind chocolate is always better.

1) Preheat oven 350. Line either a 10" deep dish pie pan or 2 8" pie pans with a circle of parchment paper or grease the pans.
2) In a food processor blend beans well. (Do NOT skimp on the blending of these.)
3) Blend in dates.
4) Blend in peanut butter, sugar and vanilla.
5) Blend in oats, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
6) Stir in chips.
7) Spoon into pans.
8) Bake 25 minutes for two pans or 35-40 minutes for one. Check with a toothpick for doneness. Cool, cut, enjoy.



If you make 2 pans there are 16 generous servings with each slice being approximately 212 calories a slice.

Comments

[numberthescars.livejournal.com]

*stares...drools* That looks amazing. Thanks for sharing the recipe--I can't wait to try it myself!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I hope you like it! And the recipe is very malleable according to preferences and what ingredients you have on hand.

[numberthescars.livejournal.com]

I know it's been ages, but I just wanted to let you know I tried your recipe today. We didn't have peanut butter, so I ended up switching it out for a mixture of almond butter and apple sauce, but it still turned out amazing! My whole family was raving about the "donutsweeper recipe." You're famous over here now!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh YAY I'm so glad it worked and you all liked it! I love how forgiving a recipe it is and how easy you can swap stuff about with it. Enjoy!

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

YES PLEASE.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

That sounds so good! Wish I had a food processor. This wouldn't work in a blender, I know from experience.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, maybe if you mashed them and then used the blender? Or blended the beans in batches? And you could soften the dates in a little boiling water first.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just the cheap blenders I've been using, but it's not the starting chunkiness, it's the amount of liquid or lack of it that makes blending a losing proposition. I can use the blender to chop very dry things like nuts into smaller pieces (and I use it to make oat flour from rolled oats) but I can't take something a bit goopy, like fruit or cooked beans, and expect to get a really nice smooth processed product in the end. The blade just ends up spinning at nothing because the food doesn't drop down onto it to get blended some more, it's too thick.

It's okay, the next time I have the energy to drag my mom's food processor out of the closet and figure out (again) how to assemble it, I will try this recipe! It's such a great idea.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hadn't thought of that. My blender is so terrible it won't even really chop nuts. I hope you can get you mom's processor working, these are really good (the kids even offer to CLEAN to bribe me to make them)