This protein monster cookie dough recipe tastes just like raw cookie dough but is protein-packed and made with garbanzo beans, oats, maple, peanut butter, and, of course, mini chocolate chips and m&ms. Yum!
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If you ask any of us what our favorite cookie to make for our friends and family no matter the occasion, it is without a doubt our flourless monster cookies. Since developing that recipe, we’ve created monster cookie oat cups and monster cookie bars. So this protein monster cookie dough felt like the perfect addition.
Best part about this recipe? It tastes JUST LIKE monster cookie dough without worrying about eating raw eggs. And you can eat it right out of the food processor — trust us, we have 😀
What You Need for Protein Monster Cookie Dough
Garbanzo Beans: garbanzo beans are high in fiber and protein. The perfect base for this edible cookie dough!
Oats: we recommend using quick-cooking oats, but rolled oats work, too.
Peanut Butter: peanut butter is traditionally used in monster cookies, and we love the flavor it adds to this cookie dough.
Maple: we like to use maple because it’s an all-natural sweetener, and provides rich and warm flavor.
Vanilla Extract: vanilla is another flavor that helps make these taste like cookie dough.
Mini Chocolate Chips: every cookie dough bite deserves chocolate chips!
Mini M&Ms: it’s not a monster cookie without m&ms and this cookie dough is no different 😀
Substitutions & Variations
Peanut Butter –> Another Nut Butter: sub almond butter or cashew butter 1:1 for the peanut butter.
Maple Syrup –> Honey: use honey instead of maple syrup.
Mini Chocolate Chips –> Another Flavor Chip: use another flavor of mini chips, such as butterscotch chips or white chocolate chips.
Try it!
Flourless Monster Cookies
These flourless Monster Cookies are your new favorite dessert! Made with oatmeal, peanut butter, chocolate chips and M&M’s, these cookies are jam-packed with all the good stuff.
Choosing the Best Food Processor
Making this edible cookie dough is rather simple and requires one important piece of equipment…a food processor!
Make sure you are using a high-powered food processor that has sharp blades, sharp enough to pulverize garbanzo beans and turn rolled oats into oat flour, giving you the creamy texture that makes this monster cookie dough creamy and smooth.
Here are a few food processor suggestions in different prices ranges that we recommend from our experience:
- Cuisinart 8-Cup Food Processor – low price
- Kitchen Ninja System (the one we have!) – mid-range
- KitchenAid 14-Cup Food Processor – high-price
Storage
Transfer your protein monster cookie dough into a glass, airtight container and store in the fridge for up to 3 days.
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Protein Monster Cookie Dough
Ingredients
- 15 oz. canned garbanzo beans rinsed and drained
- 3/4 cup all-natural drippy peanut butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup maple syrup
- ⅓ cup quick-cooking oats
- ¼ cup mini chocolate chips
- ¼ cup mini m&ms
Instructions
- Place the garbanzo beans, peanut butter, vanilla extract, and maple syrup into a high-speed food processor and blend on high for 1 to 2 minutes, stopping ever so often to scrape the sides. Blend until smooth.
- Add the oats, chocolate chips, and m&ms to the food processor and pulse until combined. If the batter is too thick, feel free to add water by the teaspoon.
- Serve with a spoon or your favorite dipping vessels.
Tips & Notes
- You don’t want to blend the chocolate chips and m&m’s in the food processor. You just want to mix them in, otherwise the color will bleed into the dough and the m&ms will break down.
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Photography: photos taken in this post are by Ashley McGlaughlin from The Edible Perspective.
This was additively tasty! I love finding healthy(ish) desserts to satisfy my cravings, and my kids love it too!
I love the garbanzo beans in this recipe! You could not taste any beans, just delicious.
I was so glad to have these waiting for me when I came home hungry from a long day! Kids liked them with apples for a snack.
Easy and delicious! I’m eating it straight out of the bowl with a spoon.
This photo doesn’t do it justice! I’m guilty of eating the cookie dough raw and this was the perfect fix
Very easy to make and great to have on hand in the freezer for a quick snack!
We’ve tried various “cookie dough” recipes before, but these are by far the best! You can’t taste the garbanzo beans, and the texture is just perfect. These were so easy and are so tasty!
I had a bit of trouble with the M&M color bleeding so it’s not the prettiest, but it sure is delicious! I just ate it in delicious spoonfuls
Oops, mixed them too much that the color came off the M&M’s 😂 still super tasty! Nice grab and go for breastfeeding 🙂
What a fun treat to have when my grandkids come to visit! They will love it
Delicious! Perfectly made, toddler and husband approved. We froze these and took them as our fishing snack today.
Awesome and easy dessert recipe!
Sooooo good! Everyone in my house devoured these, and can’t believe they are made with chickpeas!
This recipe is amazing!
These were super easy to make and a good alternative to regular cookie dough (the garbanzo bean flavor was a little strong for me, but it wasn’t horrible). I made them into 2tbsp balls, which seemed to be the perfect size! I also put them in the freezer for a little bit to firm them up more because the ones that I made were very sticky. My whole family liked them even my picky child
Who knew a treat made with garbanzo beans could be so good!!!