Secret Ingredients

Last weekend was one of those weekends blessed with good friends, laughing till your belly hurt and yummy meal after yummy meal.  We swam in the river, went for lazy walks and played games that involved water balloons and blindfolds.  And it didn't hurt that our view looked like this.

I was in charge of dinner on Friday and hosted a homemade pizza bar using this recipe for pizza dough.  For once, I had success with a yeast dough (my failings at a sourdough starter made me nervous and let's just say this recipe for dutch oven bread did not turn out as planned), so I felt dinner was a success before it really even got started.  

I knew the weekend would include its fill of gluttony but wanted to include a dessert in my dinner menu.  I had tried this recipe previously for a chocolate chip cookie pie.  Except it's not your typical cookie pie.  Maybe you don't have a typical one but for my family, it was always a toll house pie with 1 1/2 sticks of butter.  Good stuff, no doubt but not good for you.

So the fact that this alternative recipe is vegan, has minimal fat and is based on chickpeas (!) may surprise that it all adds up to equal deliciousness.  The amount of brown sugar goes a long way in sweetening the recipe but all in all, it's a healthier alternative.  I will caution you though that this is not a cookie dough you want to eat raw...while it has no eggs and would seem safe, you will be disappointed to find yourself sampling basically brown sugar hummus.  Something happens in the oven to meld these ingredients and turn it into gooey goodness.  And the best part, you don't have to confess the secret ingredient unless you want to.


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Review:  Gooey goodness and tastes like the real deal.