Chickpea Chocolate Chippers

Oven baked version

     Happy Tone It Up Tuesday!  I'm having quite the hungry day so it was perfect for testing out my newest healthy recipe :)  I've made chocolate chip cookie dough dip http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2011/09/27/new-recipe-sugar-free-cookie-dough-dip/ and tried to bake it as is into cookies or cookie bars, but it just turns out messy.  Ever since the original experiment I wanted to try again to make healthy chocolate chip cookies using chickpeas again and today was the day!  I was inspired to bake by this little guy who knocked my apron down early this morning...Without further ado on to healthy cookies!

Crazy 5 month old kitten named Tuotilo <3

Ingredients:
1 cup chickpea flour (found mine at whole foods for a few $ or amazon.com has it too)

1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk

5-7 dates, depends upon size

1 egg or egg white

1/4 cup vanillas protein powder (I used nutribiotic brown rice vanilla)

1/4 cup natural peanut butter

1/4 cococnut water or plain water

1/2 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup chocolate chips

stevia drops or powder to taste

pinch of salt

Method:

1) Microwave milk and dates for 30 seconds and let sit 5 minutes.

2) Add all ingredients except chocolate chips to a food processor and run until smooth

3) stir in chocolate chips, the will make a swril since the batter will be warm

4) Scoop into 1 tbsp size cookies

5) Bake them at 350 in the oven for about 20 minutes or place on a microwave safe plate and micowave one by one for 30 seconds.

30 seconds in the microwave et voila!

Where I have been and my sunny vegan 'chicken' salad

Hi guys, where have I been?  Being discouraged that I don't have an instant set of followers, but you know what its ok :)  This blog can be followed just by me and I think I'll be happy with that because its like a giant healthy cook book by me, for me, and for the love of food and my continued healthy journey.

I recently joined the Tone It Up nutrition plan and I don't think I can ever go back to falling on and off the healthy eating wagon ever again.  I first discover Karena & Katrina through pinterest, later I followed their workouts on youtube and love them!  I finally built up the courag to join their free community and the support you get is incredable and I visit everyday and share my meals with all my friends that I have met.  You can follow my journey on twitter too if you like @Alia_TIU.

Now on to the good stuff my TIU approved vegan friendly sunny 'chicken' salad!

2 cups sunflower seeds (soaked in cold water for 1.5 hours)

1/4 cup water

1/2 cup hummus

3-5 garlic cloves

1 Tbsp onion powder

1 Tbsp garlic powder

1 Tbsp mrs.dash

1 Tbsp sage

1/3 cup dried cranberries

1) soak sunflower seeds in cold water for 1.5 to 2 hours then drain

2) add all ingrediets EXCEPT dried cranberries to a food processor and run it until smooth, but slighty chunky

3) stir in cranberries and season with a little sea salt and black pepper

4)enjoy!