These cookie dough bars are beyond tasty, healthyish, no bake, gluten free, and vegan!! Perfect treat for tea time or great as a dessert when you’re hosting! This recipe is also refined sugar-free, eggless, and tastes amazing! It has chickpeas but you’d never guess it.

This cookie dough is nutritious and children love it!

Cookie Dough Cashew Chickpea Bars

Traditional cookie dough recipes have way too much sugar and unhealthy fats. This recipe tastes better than traditional ones, in my opinion, and you still get some solid nutrition because of the great ingredients. I love it because it’s:

1. Healthier than most cookie dough recipes I’ve seen.

2. Packed with chickpeas for that extra healthy protein content.

3. Mostly whole food ingredients, which means it’s refined sugar-free.

4. It provides enough energy to have it as a pre-workout meal, which I do!

Ingredients

• Cashews

• Chickpeas

• GF quick oats

• Maple syrup

• Coconut oil

• 100% cacao

• Nut butter

• Dark chocolate chips (optional)

Don’t worry, you don’t taste the chickpeas, just the cashews and oats. You can also use drained cooked red lentils instead of cooked chickpeas. It will have a different color, but still be super tasty. 

Sweetener: While I use maple syrup for this recipe you can use agave instead, or any sweetener you have. You will need to adjust the amount based on the type of sweetener you use though.

Dark chocolate chips: I make this recipe with chips when I am going to share it, but I skip them when I make it for myself.

How to Make Cookie Dough Cashew Chickpea Bars?

You need a good food processor. I use a Ninja Blender for this type of recipe.

• Better to process the dates with the chickpeas and the wet ingredients first.

• Then add the oats and mix again.

• Finally, you can add the chocolate chips and stir with a spoon.

• You can eat this vegan cookie dough right away (for the less than 10-minute option) or put it in the freezer to settle.

• You can store it in the fridge for 5-6 days, or freeze the leftovers!

This Vegan Cookie Dough Bars are

• Gluten free

• Egg-free

• Dairy-free (without butter)

• Healthier than most cookie dough recipes I’ve seen

• Refined sugar-free

• Easy to make

• Amazing as dessert or as an afternoon snack.

Please let me know if you make it!! Rate it and comment below. I love to hear about your creations too and any alterations you might make to the ingredients.

Also, don’t forget to tag me in your Instagram or Facebook post with @veggielation and #veggielation because I would love to see your take on this recipe!

Thanks!!!