Flour-less, egg-less, (almost) sugar-less Cookies :)

  Now before I start I have to ask all of you to PLEASE keep an open mind :).  I came across this recipe over the summer on Pinterest.  The caption was "Flour-less, egg-less, sugar-less cookies."  You can find the original recipe here. One day out of pure boredom I went ahead and tried them and to my amazement, they were great! My friend Katie told me that they may not be your typical chocolate chip cookie but they are perfect for curbing your sweet tooth.  They are easier to put together as you just use a food processor and THAT'S IT.  Pretty easy clean up if you ask me. 

Chris did most of the work on this one.  :) So I'm guessing you want to know what's in them right? 

You will need: 

1 can of Garbanzo Beans/Chick Peas

1/2 cup of peanut butter

1/4 cup of honey or agave nectar

1 tsp of baking powder

1 pinch of salt if your peanut butter isn't salted

2 tsp vanilla 

1/2 cup of chocolate chips

Preheat your oven to 350*

Are you with me still? Ok so that's 1 can of GARBANZO BEANS.  Give them a good rinse and then put them in your food processor and get them started.  Unless you want chunks of the bean in your cookie you're going to want to scrape the sides of the blender and blend these babies good. 

You can add everything else (except the chocolate chips) until everything is well blended.  After it's looking pretty smooth, take your blade out and stir in 1/2 cup of chocolate chips.  You can use whatever you want.  If you want to be REALLY healthy you can use a semi-sweet or dark chocolate because milk chocolate chips are higher in fat.  You can be like Chris and "accidently" dump a whole cup in. :) 

Next, you'll need to wet your hands with water and get to rolling your cookies.  I lined a cookie sheet with foil and very lightly greased it because I couldn't remember if these stick or not.  You can put these pretty close together because they don't rise and don't spread very much at all. 

Set your timer for about 10 minutes. 

Next, tell your toddler that we are going to have cookies for snack and this will happen:

Pull them out of the oven and let them sit a minute.. One thing to remember is that these taste the best when they are warm :) 

"Success"

Now go get yourself some garbanzo beans and make these and let me know what you think ::)