Vegan Chickpea Peanut Butter Blondies (Gluten-Free)
Today we are making Vegan Chickpea Peanut Butter Blondies (Gluten-Free)! What is a blondie? It is the non-chocolatey counterpart to the beloved brownie! Today, we’re making a gluten-free blondies recipe with a secret ingredient – chickpeas!
Now, let’s chat about the versatility of blondies. They’re like a blank canvas, ready for whatever flavor you want – espresso? Chai spice? Fruity? You got it! For this particular recipe, we’re venturing into the classic realm of peanut butter and chocolate chips. I mean, who can resist that timeless combo? It’s like a warm hug for your taste buds – the creamy, nutty goodness of peanut butter mingling with the sweet bursts of chocolate chips can’t be beat!
Why You’ll Love These Vegan Chickpea Peanut Butter Blondie Recipe
High-Protein Dessert: What do you get when you cross protein with vegan blondies?! These good-for-you chickpea blondies that you can enjoy while you get in your daily dose of healthy fats, fiber and protein from oats, peanut butter and chickpeas! There’s no gluten-free flour or all purpose flour needed for these blondie bars, because the healthy ingredients like chickpeas, almond butter and others substitute in for the flour. Now you can enjoy this as an after-dinner snack but also get in some good-for-you food, versus a dessert high in refined sugar.
Substitutions
Oats: This recipe uses rolled oats, but you can substitute with quick-cooking. Do not use steel cut oats!
Peanut Butter: There’s no vegan butter or vegetable oil required here, because nut butters substitute the fats. Use creamy peanut butter for this recipe. Choose one that doesn’t contain added oils or sugars on the ingredient label – just one ingredient, roasted peanuts. You can change this up and remove the peanut butter flavor (or for those with allergies) and use almond butter, cashew butter or even try out sunflower seed butter for a nut butter free recipe.
Maple Syrup: Pure maple syrup (not pancake syrup) provides the sweetener for this recipe. You can also use agave nectar instead.
Vanilla Extract: For best results, pure vanilla extract, without added artificial colors and dyes (like caramel color).
Almond Flour: Substitute for almond meal.
Chocolate Chips: Use semisweet chocolate for these cookie bars, as dark chocolate will have an underlying bitter flavor that won’t work as well here. You can use vegan semisweet chocolate chips or a chopped semisweet chocolate bar. Check the ingredient label to make sure it doesn’t contain any milk products like milk fat or milk powder, so it would be vegan. To keep it refined sugar-free, you can also find brands of chocolate chips using a sugar-free sweetener.
Vegan Chickpea Peanut Butter Blondies Recipe Notes
- Switch it up! Try vegan white chocolate chips for white chocolate blondies, freeze-dried raspberries, walnuts for dark chocolate chips or chocolate chunks, or other add-ins.
- Drizzle peanut butter over top of the blondies for extra PB flavor before eating!
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Vegan Chickpea Peanut Butter Blondies (Gluten-Free)
Equipment
- Oven
- Cupcake Tray
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Rinse the chickpeas, then add all except the last ingredient to a food processor until smooth.
- Once a smooth mixture is made, stir in the chocolate chips.
- Pour the blondie batter in an even layer into each of the muffin cups. Use cupcake liners or grease the bottom of the each section before pouring in the batter.
- Bake on the center rack of the oven for 14 minutes.
- Once they are removed from the oven, let them cool at room temperature for an hour. Then, place in the refrigerator for at least 1 more hour. Enjoy!
Notes
- Storage
- Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one week.
