Healthy Chickpea Brownie Bites (Flourless and Sugar-Free)

These Healthy Chickpea Brownie Bites (Flourless and Sugar-Free) are wholesome, naturally sweetened with dates, and chocolatey! The perfectly healthy five ingredients make them an easy sweet treat for babies!

Reasons to Love These Healthy Brownie Bites

• Easy: These chickpea brownie bites are so simple to make! Add all ingredients to a food processor, roll, and enjoy! Minimal preparation is needed, and it is ready in minutes for a perfect any-time snack.
• Wholesome / Refined Sugar-Free: These delicious snack bites are made with natural ingredients such as chickpeas, dates, cocoa powder, and coconut, which the whole family will love!
• Versatile: You can make these chickpea bliss balls and serve them as is, or coat them in melted chocolate, add a lollipop stick, and call them brownie cake pops! I bet that your littles will LOVE this!
• Great flavor: With a rich chocolatey flavor, these brownie bites have just the right amount of sweetness. If you like them sweeter, you can add some chocolate chips to the batter next time!

Health Benefits of Chickpea (Garbanzo Beans)

• Chickpeas are a type of legume in the same family as kidney beans and peanuts. They’re also called garbanzo beans. They have a buttery, nutty flavor and creamy texture. 
• Chickpeas and other legumes have calcium, magnesium, fiber, and other nutrients for strong bones. They are also rich in choline, a nutrient that helps make important chemicals for memory, mood, muscle control, and other brain and nervous system activity.

Ingredients

This recipe uses only four healthy ingredients:

• Dates: I like using Medjool dates as they are softer and sweeter! They blend well in the food processor, adding the perfect flavor and sweetness to this recipe.
• Chickpeas: The secret ingredient in this recipe. I like cooking my chickpeas from scratch, but if using canned, drain and rinse well before adding them to the food processor.
• Cacao powder: Use unsweetened cocoa powder for the best chocolatey flavor.
• Peanut butter: To help bind all the ingredients together for a delicious peanut flavor. Use natural peanut butter without oil or sugar added (100% peanuts in the composition preferred).
• Coconut flakes: Optional for added texture and taste, use unsweetened desiccated coconut. I like using finely shredded coconut, but any kind will work as we blend everything in a food processor.
• Dark chocolate chips: Optional if you have a sweet tooth and like these no-bake bites sweeter.
• Pure vanilla extract: Optional for added flavor.

Step-by-step instructions

This recipe is so simple; only a few steps are required.

1. Add the cooked chickpeas, dates, cacao powder, peanut butter, and coconut flakes to a food processor and blend until smooth. It will form a dough that is easily moldable.
2. Mold into your desired shapes and finish with melted chocolate, cacao powder, or coconut flakes.

See the full recipe card at the bottom of this post.

Tips to Make Healthy Brownie Bites

Here are my insights into making the perfect brownie bites the first time:

• For the best results, use Medjool dates, as they are softer and sweeter.
• Measure the ingredients per the recipe card to ensure the dough is easily moldable.

Tools Needed

Food Processor: This recipe calls for a food processor. A blender is not powerful enough to break all the date pieces into a smooth dough.

Storage Instructions

You can serve these as a snack for babies and toddlers. It is the perfect way to add some plant-based protein to their diets. These can also be molded into little chocolate eggs, making an excellent option for Easter snacks for littles under two years of age.

Peanut butter: You can use the nut butter of your choice, such as almond butter, cashew butter, or sunflower seed butter.

Frequently Asked Questions

Other Healthy Sweet Treats that You May Like

• Healthier Black Bean Brownies
• Healthier Almond Flour Brownies
• Healthy Flourless Dark Chocolate Brownies (Fudgy)
• Healthy Peanut Butter Cups (Homemade Reese’s)

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