These vegan chickpea blondies are the perfect fudgy dessert that is close to having a deep dish cookie. Easy to make and only 9 ingredients!

Adding Beans To Desserts

These are better-for-you blondies. Blondies that still taste rich and decadent, but are dairy free and egg free. They even include a fun ingredient that you likely won’t be able to detect if you try it. These blondies are loaded with chickpeas! It can sound really weird, but with the right balance of ingredients, you can mask the flavor of bean.

Adding chickpeas to this dessert actually helps to take the place of some of the flour and eggs normally in this dessert. As a result, you get more protein, fiber and satisfaction with each bite. But this swap in does more than just add in health benefits. The chickpeas blend with the peanut butter to give a chewy and delectable cookie, fudgy consistency. It is literally the best combo!

Key Ingredients and Substitutions

• Rolled Oats: You can use quick oats as an alternative as well. If you want to keep this recipe gluten-free, make sure to use clearly labeled gluten-free rolled oats.
• Brown Sugar: The brown sugar helps to give more moisture and fudgy like consistency. If you’d like to swap for coconut sugar, I would recommend adding 1 teaspoon of black unsulfured molasses to keep the moisture.
• Maple Syrup: Adds great sweetness and flavor but enough liquid to blend the batter smooth.
• Peanut Butter: I used peanut butter to help bring the cost of these blondies down. If you don’t want a strong peanut butter flavor, you can also make these with cashew or almond butter. You can also try with sunflower seed butter to make it nut-free.
• Dairy-Free Chocolate Chips: You can also add additional mix-ins if desired. Other chopped nuts like walnuts work really well or pretzel pieces. Just make sure to mix at the end.

How to Make Chickpea Blondies

Process your oats to make sure that they are blended into a flour. Add the remaining ingredients except chocolate chips. Process and blend until batter is as smooth as possible. Feel free to scrape down sides to make sure batter is smooth.

Once smooth, fold in chocolate chips. Spoon the batter into an 8 x 8 pan. Feel free to add additional chocolate chips on top for decoration.

Bake in the oven at 350F for 20 minutes. Allow to completely cool before cutting into pieces.