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These vegan Cookie Dough Brownies have a secret ingredient. Lentils! Free of dairy, egg, soy and gluten. They come together quickly for the chocolate chip cookie dough fix. Use coconut flour to make grain-free
I know right. I am currently going through a Cookie dough phase. the other day, I was hit with the cookie dough craving again and I wondered if I could do something about all the flour and nuts in it and also the reduce the oil and amp up te cookie dough to something more. Enter lentils! Lentils and chickpeas can pretty much do everything. I also added a brownie layer to the bars, you can as well make the brownie layer into cookie dough too. Make a lot of cookie dough balls and freeze them till you need them, if any are left that is. So lets add some protein (lentils!) to these fudge bars.
There are cooked lentils, hemp seeds, a bit of oat and coconut flour for added volume in this recipe. Sub the oat flour with coconut flour to make the recipe grain-free. I use raw unrefined sugar in the recipe. The dry sugar is not adding any volume to this so you can use any sweetener of choice like stevia, dates, coconut sugar etc. A liquid sweetener might not work as well as there is already enough moisture from the lentils.
I know they sound unusual. Give them a go! If you don’t like them much, no fear, just blend them up into milkshakes or cookie dough blizzards!
Make these awesome Vegan Cookie Dough Brownies! Lentils = Protein!
More goodies from the blog.
The original Chocolate chip Cookie dough with oat and almond flour or use any flour. No Bake. You can use this to make these bars as well. Make a double batch, add cocoa powder to one batch, layer, chill and slice.
Cookie dough blizzard milkshake – No Bake
Baked Chocolate chunk Cookie, Date Caramel, Brownie bars
Cookie Dough Brownie Bars
Ingredients Â
For the Base Batter
- 1/2 cup red lentils, masoor dal
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup hemp seeds
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 3/4 cup ground raw sugar , or other sweetener
For the Cookie Dough and Brownie Layers
- 1/4 cup oat flour divided, divided, or use coconut flour for grain free
- 5 tablespoons coconut flour
- 1/3 cup mini vegan chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
InstructionsÂ
Make the base batter.
- In a pan, add washed lentils and water. Partially cover and cook for 13 to 14 minutes on medium heat or until very tender. Drain if needed. Cool to room temperature and add to blender.
- Add the cooked lentils and all of the remaining batter ingredients to your blender. Blend for 1 minute, then let the mixture rest for 5 minutes. Blend again for 30 seconds. Continue blending and resting until you have a smooth mixture. Divide this mixture between 2 bowls.
Make the cookie dough and brownie batters.
- In one bowl, add 2 tablespoons oat flour and 2.5 tablespoons coconut flour, and mix well. Add 1/4 cup of the chocolate chips and mix. Taste and add more sweet, if needed. This is your cookie dough.
- In other bowl, add 2 tablespoons oat flour, 2.5 tablespoons coconut flour, and the cocoa powder and mix well. Add the remaining chocolate chips and mix in. Taste and add sweet, if needed. This is your brownie batter.
Layer and bake.
- Press brownie layer into parchment-lined pan, then press cookie dough on top. Chill for an hour or freeze for half an hour, then slice and serve. Keep refrigerated for up to 4 days, or you can freeze for up to 3 months.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
*Coconut Flour
*Use quick cooking red or pink lentils here, not brown or whole red(Indian brown) lentils.
*Use finely ground nuts instead of hemp seeds for variation
*This makes half a 8 by 8Â inch brownie pan.
* Red Lentils can also be found online like these Bob’s Red Mill Red Lentils
* Vegan Chocolate chips options Enjoy Life Semi-Sweet Mini Chips
These bars are being shared at VVP
These look great! So healthy and original. I’m impressed.
So in the ingredients we are using both oat flour and coconut flour?
yes
This recipe sounds delicious, I really want to try them out. Although, I am severely allergic to lentils, what would you suggest I use instead? (Also allergic to nuts, soy and chickpeas).
some flour like oat or white flour. or maybe cooked grains like quinoa, or other cooked beans like canellini ?
Okay great thanks, i’m going to try it out tonight. I’ll let you know how it goes. 🙂
I made this just now, and they are so good! I should have doubled the recipe. There is no way these are going to last a night with a boyfriend and roommate!
Great!! so glad you liked them!
Awesome! so glad you liked it!
yup its the almond flour. the cooked lentils blend up to a smooth puree and oat flour is more floury if it is finely ground flour. almond flour is generally quite grainy compared to grain flours.
Thanks for sharing this delicious no-bake treat! I made these with my cooking/baking partner-in-crime last night and we both enjoyed the cookie dough + brownie flavor.
We used almond flour instead of oat flour because that’s what we had on hand. I was skeptical about the lentils but found that they did not affect the flavor so much as the texture. These are a bit grainy (which admittedly could have been exacerbated by our use of almond flour) but they satisfied our craving for something sweet.
Can’t wait to try more of your recipes, Richa.
Could not believe these were no-bake when I saw them! Even more so when I read the recipe – I’m no stranger to using pulses in deserts, but I never would have thought using them in no-bake “baked” goods was even possible. Such a clever (not to mention delicious-looking) recipe!
These beauties were my favorite from last week’s VVLP. I’m hoping to be able to eat them after getting a tooth pulled Thursday. ….I feel your pain ; (
Thank you for sharing your recipes with us!
Looking forward to this week’s treat from you soon ♡♡
I didn’t even know there was such as a thing as split lentil. I’ve only eaten one type of lentil (the brown ones) all my life..now I’m curious! I’m so glad to see the use of lentils in a dessert!
God bless your hand Richa, Your recipies are awesome , delicious and healthy.