Healthy Chocolate Chip Garbanzo Bean Cookies

Chocolate chip garbanzo bean cookies made with garbanzo bean flour are going to knock your socks off! They’re healthy enough for breakfast and tasty enough for dessert. Add this recipe to your collection today!

Oh boy, I’ve got a good one for you today!

It’s a delicious, light and fluffy chocolate chip cookie made with garbanzo bean or chickpea flour. It might sound kind of funny to use bean flour in a cookie, but believe me when I say that these babies are good! Can’t-eat-just-one kind of good!

These chocolate chip garbanzo bean cookies are also super nutritious. They are filled with all sorts of yummy and healthy ingredients. In fact, these cookies are so healthy that we even eat them for breakfast. Nothing is better than a guilt-free cookie for breakfast!

I’m basically in healthy cookie heaven over here. Join me, won’t you?

Why You’ll Love These Chocolate Chip Garbanzo Bean Cookies

You’re definitely going to want to save this garbanzo bean or chickpea cookie recipe. It’s one of those rare treats that you can feel good gobbling up because you know it’s not full of sugar and processed ingredients.

The star of the show here is chickpea or garbanzo bean flour. It gives these breakfast cookies an incredibly light and fluffy texture.

Don’t be scared off by the use of garbanzo bean/chickpea flour. These cookies have amazing flavor. I promise you won’t taste any beans, just yummy chocolate chip cookie goodness.

This recipe is also filled with other healthy ingredients that boost nutrition, texture and flavor. It’s nut free, dairy free and as an added bonus, these cookies can be made vegan or gluten free. What’s not to love about that?

Printable Chocolate Chip Garbanzo Bean Cookie Recipe Card

What is Garbanzo Bean or Chickpea Flour?

You may be more familiar with one name or the other, but the terms “garbanzo beans” and “chickpeas” refer to the same thing.

Chickpeas or garbanzo beans are legumes and they are related to other beans like pinto beans and kidney beans. Those little beans are packed with protein and fiber, making them a great addition to your diet.

Chickpea flour or garbanzo bean flour is made from grinding up the dried beans into a powder. You can buy chickpea flour online or at your local grocery store. This flour can be used in place of regular wheat flour as a healthy alternative in your recipes.

Ingredients in This Healthy Cookie Recipe

These healthy breakfast cookies have a fantastic lineup of ingredients.

• 1 large ripe banana, mashed: bananas are full of potassium, fiber and antioxidants
• 1 cup pumpkin puree: a great source of vitamins and fiber
• 1/2 cup natural peanut butter or almond butter: full of protein and healthy fats
• 1/4 cup pure maple syrup: a natural sweetener with a lower glycemic index
• 1 Egg: another fantastic protein source
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract: adds terrific flavor
• 1 cup chickpea flour: high in proteins, nutrients and fiber
• 1 cup old fashioned rolled oats: another great source of heart-healthy fiber
• 3 tablespoons flax seed meal: lots of omega 3 fatty acids, antioxidants and fiber
• 3 tablespoons hemp hearts: a complete protein which includes omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids, vitamins, minerals and fiber
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds: great for digestion and an excellent source of nutrients and antioxidants
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon: adds delicious flavor, full of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda: helps produce light and fluffy cookies
• 1/2 teaspoon salt: enhances the delicious cookie flavors
• Semi-sweet chocolate chips: adds the perfect touch of “yum”!

How to Make These Healthy Garbanzo Bean Cookies

1. Prepare a large baking sheet with parchment paper or cooking spray.
2. With a large bowl or mixer, combine all the wet ingredients and blend thoroughly.
3. Add all the dry ingredients into the same bowl with the mixed together wet ingredients, and combine until it is all incorporated evenly.
4. Allow the dough to set for about 5 minutes.
5. With a cookie scoop or 2 spoons, scoop spoonfuls of the cookie dough onto the prepared baking tray, allowing about 2 inches between cookies.
6. Top each cookie with a couple of chocolate chips.
7. Bake for 10-12 minutes, watching carefully to remove them before the get too golden brown on the top.
8. Remove from oven and allow to cool on a cooling rack before serving. Enjoy!

Storing Your Cookies

Store your delicious chickpea cookies in an airtight container to retain moisture. They can be stored this way at room temperature for 3-5 days. For longer storage, you can keep your cookies in the fridge for up to a week.

My favorite way to store these cookies is in the freezer. You can wrap them individually with plastic wrap and put the wrapped cookies in a freezer bag. You can also flash freeze them by laying the cookies out on a baking sheet and freezing for an hour. Once that’s done the cookies can be tossed together in a freezer bag without sticking to each other. Freeze for up to 2 months.

The frozen cookies are perfect to grab for snacks or a packed lunch. Just toss one in a bag and they’re perfect by lunch time!

Ingredient Substitutions – Customize Your Cookies!

If you’re the kind of cook who likes to tweak recipes then you’re going to love these chocolate chip garbanzo bean cookies. They are extremely adaptable, making them great for people with special dietary needs or just special preferences.

This is the perfect gluten free cookie. All of the ingredients in this recipe are naturally gluten free. Just make sure that you choose certified gluten free oats. Non certified oats are usually cross contaminated from being processed alongside wheat products.

If you want to make vegan chickpea chocolate chip cookies, you can make swap the egg for flax eggs or another egg substitute of your choice.

I used peanut butter in my cookies, but you can sub in cashew butter, almond butter or any nut butter that you like.

The chia seeds, hemp hearts, and flax seeds can be left out of this recipe, but they add so much nutrition and great texture that I don’t think you’ll want to. And of course, you can switch out those semi sweet chocolate chips for milk or dark chocolate chips if that’s more your style.

No matter what you choose, you’re going to have a fantastic cookie!

More Delicious and Healthy Recipes

These garbanzo bean or chickpea cookies are perfect for breakfast or as a healthy dessert. Give them a try and let me know what you think! Do you love baking with chickpea flour as much as I do?

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