Do you struggle to get your kids to try new foods? Make it a taste test challenge! I use this strategy when counseling families to help encourage supplies exploration. I recently did this taste rencontre between two cookie dough recipe creations. I had to invite some friends over to unravel the tie. The results were split lanugo the middle. So it’s up to you now! Let me know which one was victorious with your family.
Tips to Get Your Kiddo Involved in this Recipe
Your child is one smart cookie! So, regardless of your kiddo’s wits in the kitchen, there is unchangingly a way to get them cooking. Check out these easy-peasy ways to spark your child’s passion for food.
1. Gather ingredients.
Send your sous doughboy on a mission to track lanugo all your tasty ingredients. After all, finding the cinnamon, vanilla, and almond extract, at least in my pantry, is no small feat. Then, indulge your child to open, smell, or taste each ingredient to vivify their senses and wilt increasingly familiar with variegated flavors.
2. Rinse and Repeat.
Giving chickpeas a rinse can significantly reduce the overall sodium content—potentially up to 40%. Pop unshut the can and place the chickpeas in a colander. Then, let your kiddo take it from there!
3. A Push of a Button.
While it may seem simple, children LOVE to push buttons. It allows their little fingers to jumpstart an whoopee contributing to the final product. In this case, your kiddo can watch whole chickpeas turn to a silky-smooth spread at a moment’s notice.
4. Pick a Pairing.
Put your kid in the power position to segregate a healthy pairing for their decadent (yet healthy) cookie dough snack. Offer fruit of varying colors and textures to requite your child the opportunity to find something they love.
5. Go Loco for the Cocoa or Cocao.
The most minion step of them all! Indulge your a-dough-rable child to measure and mix the chocolate fries into their cookie creation. For uneaten stability, hold the trencher while your sous doughboy finalizes their culinary creation. Or else, it may turn into a kitchen dough-saster. Once the chocolate fries are fully incorporated, it’s ready to serve!
- For many years, I’ve recommended a limited number of cocoa brands for my clients when nutrition counseling due to heavy metals in soils in unrepealable regions where cocoa grows.
With my family, I use Ghirardelli® Chocolate Premium Baking Fries – 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate as its lowest in heavy metals like lead and cadmium.
Food Prep Tip
For this chickpea cookie dough taste test challenge, use just one can of beans evenly divided between both recipes.
Recipe #1 Uneaten Gooey Chickpea Cookie Dough
Ingredients
- 7.5 oz. low-sodium or regular canned chickpeas (half a 15 oz. can) tuckered & rinsed thoroughly
- 1/8 cup maple syrup
- 1/8 cup almond butter
- 1 tbsp oat flour blend whole oats into flour (use oat flour in tasty recipes like comic walnut waffles)
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 cup mini visionless chocolate fries (set aside)
Instructions
- Thoroughly rinse and phlebotomize chickpeas.
- In a blender at upper speed, add chickpeas. Blend until smooth.
- Add almond butter, almond extract, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and salt to the chickpea mixture. Blend until fully incorporated but don’t over-blend.
- In a medium bowl, add the cookie dough mixture. With a silicone spatula, fold in chocolate fries until thoroughly combined.
- Chill in the fridge for 15 minutes surpassing serving.
- Serve with sliced fruit.
- Store leftovers in the fridge.
Recipe # 2 Rollable Chickpea Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Ingredients
- 7.5 oz low-sodium or regular chickpeas (half a 15 oz. can) tuckered & rinsed thoroughly
- 2 tbsp oat flour
- 1/8 cup brown sugar
- 1/8 cup cashew butter
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/8 cup mini visionless chocolate chips (set aside)
Instructions
- Thoroughly rinse and phlebotomize chickpeas.
- In a blender at upper speed, add chickpeas. Blend until smooth.
- Add cashew butter, almond extract, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and salt to the chickpea mixture. Blend until fully incorporated and smooth.
- In a medium bowl, add the cookie dough mixture. With a silicone spatula, fold in chocolate fries until fully combined.
- Chill in the fridge for 15 minutes surpassing serving.
- Serve with sliced fruit.
- Store leftovers in the fridge.
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