Flourless Monster Cookie Dough Dip

10/27/13

Monster cookie dough dip covers all of the bases for a delicious and easy dessert. It’s a no-bake dessert, it’s made without flour, and this monster cookie dough dip is a gluten-free dessert. Actually, out of all of the easy gluten-free dessert dips I’ve made, this dessert dip recipe may be my favorite!

You’ve seen recipes for monster cookies, right? Basically they are a peanut butter oatmeal cookie loaded with chocolate chips and M&M’s or other candies. Well, imagine a bowl full of the cookie dough! Sure, this simple dessert dip is packed with chocolate and peanut buttery goodness, but it’s actually made with a secret ingredient and it’s flourless. Oh yeah!!

OK OK OK, I’ll admit it. I’m a candy-hoarder-and-swapper. Tell me you’ve never done it – bought your bags of Halloween candy to give out to Trick-or-Treaters, and when you fill the bowl, you make sure all the Reese’s (or Butterfingers or Snickers or Milky Ways – whatever is your favorite) are down at the bottom of the bowl, hidden by all the nasty Kit Kats. Because you know you buy bags of stuff you don’t like at all so that if any of those are left, you won’t be tempted to eat them and then don’t feel guilty at all when you polish off the bag of the aforementioned Reese’s. Because there were three other bags of candy that you totally didn’t touch.

Of course then the logical next step is, when your kids get home from trick-or-treating, you go through their bag, you know, just to inspect the candy and make sure nobody hid needles in the Tootsie Rolls or laced the Smarties with arsenic. Obviously the Reese’s and Snickers need to be tested by mom, so they go into the top shelf of the cabinet, the nasty stuff or choking hazards go into the big candy bowl to keep hiding those Reese’s give to the stragglers who should be home already and not ringing my doorbell I have two little ones and it’s late so you get the crap!!

At the end of the night, the Reese’s that those clearly unobservant kids didn’t fish out of the bottom of the bowl also somehow make it to that hidden spot on the top shelf, and the rest goes into a Ziploc for Daddy to take to work tomorrow.

Then those last few remaining Three Musketeers or Hershey Bars…  they get parsed out one per day for the next week or so because you are paying the dentist and doctor bills now, and you don’t want your kids to develop your nasty candy-hoarding habit that you have clearly due to the negligence and poor parenting skills of your mom and dad.

But if you hoard some candy to make flourless monster cookie dough dip for your kids, that is totally acceptable.

I used chocolate chips and M&M’s to keep it true to the classic (or at least what I think is the classic) Monster Cookie, like this one from It’s Yummi. But really, you can use anything that you pick out of your kids’ candy bags, and chop it into little pieces.

Also totally OK – eating Monster Cookie Dough Dip for lunch…  you did see the secret ingredient, right? Scroll down, check it out. I’ll wait. Yup, that plus peanut butter and oats. I mean, health food, right…  except for the candy you snitched. But, you know, it’s Halloween. At least eating it in little bits with apples or graham crackers or pretzels or these super delicious Chocolate Tortilla Chips that I found is better than downing a handful of Fun Size bars all at once…

Not that I know anything about that…

Love this? Try these…

• No Flour Monster Cookie Bars
• Toffee Almond Butter Monster Cookies
• Trail Mix Nutty Monster Cookies
• Snickers Monster Cookie Pie

More Cookie Dough Dip Recipes…

• Sweet Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
• Macadamia White Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip
• Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookie Dough Ball
• Chocolate Almond Coconut Cookie Dough Ball
• Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookie Dough Dip

Print Recipe

5 from 1 vote

{flourless} Monster Cookie Dough Dip

Loaded with peanut butter, chocolate chips and M&M’s, like the classic cookie, this dip is actually flourless and eggless because of a secret ingredient!

Course: Dessert, Dip, Snack

Author: Brianne @ Cupcakes & Kale Chips

Ingredients

• One 15 oz. can chickpeas rinsed, drained, and dried on a paper towel
• 1/4 c half a stick unsalted butter, softened
• 1/4 c peanut butter
• 1/2 c brown sugar
• 2 t vanilla extract
• 1/4 t salt
• 1/2 c semisweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 c old fashioned oats
• Two single serving 1.69 oz. bags or about 1/2 c M&M’s
• Pretzels cinnamon sugar or chocolate tortilla chips, graham crackers, fruit, etc. for serving

Instructions

• Place the chickpeas, butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and salt into a food processor, and process until smooth. You may need to scrape with a spatula or break up clumps of brown sugar once or twice in order to get it completely smooth.
• Scoop the mixture into a bowl, add the oats and chocolate chips, and mix in completely.
• Add the M&M’s and stir briefly to combine (see Note).
• Serve with pretzels, cinnamon sugar or chocolate tortilla chips, graham crackers, fruit, etc. for dipping or spreading.

Notes

Once you’ve added the M&M’s, be careful not to overstir, or the colors will run and get all smeary. If you want to have those bright pops of color, reserve a few M&M’s and press them into the top of the dip just before serving.

Dip can be stored for several days in the fridge, but the oats will soften a bit and the dip will firm up, so you may want to serve with a knife for spreading.

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Enjoy!

Here are some more candy-packed or candy-inspired treats from me…

• Monster Snickers Pie
• Homemade No-Churn Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Cake
• Almond Joy Puppy Chow

In addition to my monster cookie dough dip, check out the rest of the menu for our big #SundaySupper Halloween Party:

COCKTAILS

• Bloody Mary by La Cocina de Leslie
• Head Will Roll Cocktail by Noshing with The Nolands
• Wicked Sangria by The Messy Baker

SWEETS AND DESSERTS

• Snickers Fudge by I Run for Wine
• Halloween Pumpkin Chocolate Parfaits by Daily Dish Recipes
• White Chocolate Monster Munch by That Skinny Chick Can Bake
• Soft and Chewy Chocolate Candies by What Smells So Good?
• Candy Corn Puppy Chow by Pies and Plots
• Pumpkin Dirt Pudding Graveyard Parfaits by Neighborfood
• Candied Pumpkin (Calabaza en Tacha) by Magnolia Days
• Snickerway Truffles by Peanut Butter and Peppers
• Homemade Peanut Butter Cups by The Texan New Yorker
• Jack Skellington Oreo Pops by Big Bear’s Wife
• Halloween Crunch Truffles by The Weekend Gourmet
• Frozen “Boo” Nana Pops by Momma’s Meals

CUPCAKES, COOKIES AND MORE

• Bourbon Caramel Glazed Pumpkin Donuts by Girl in the Little Red Kitchen
• Candy Corn White Chocolate Pretzels by Alida’s Kitchen
• Soft Apple Cider Cookies by Killer Bunnies, Inc
• Spooky Cookies by Basic N Delicious
• Pumpkin Bomb Cupcakes by My Other City By the Bay
• Cinnamon Rolls à la Great Pumpkin by Ninja Baking
• Monster Eye Cookies by The Urban Mrs.
• Trick or Beet Brownies by Foxes Love Lemons
• Caramel Surprise Witches’ hat Cupcakes by Hot Momma’s Kitchen Chaos
• Dark and Stormy Gingerbread by girlichef
• {Flourless} Monster Cookie Dough Dip by Cupcakes & Kale Chips
• Monster and Mummy Cupcakes by Hip Foodie Mom
• Pumpkin Cut-out Cookies by Take A Bite Out Of Boca
• Candied Pumpkin Cheese Cake with Maple Cream by Vintage Kitchen Notes
• Easy Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes by The Dinner-Mom
• Zombie Cupcakes by Treats & Trinkets
• Coconut Macaroon Witch’s Brooms by Ruffles & Truffles
• Witches Hats by A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures

APPETIZER, MAIN MEALS

• Shrek’s Used Q-tips by Shockingly Delicious
• Green Tomato Chilli by Jane’s Adventures in Dinner
• It’s the Great Stuffed Pumpkin by Bobbi’s Kozy Kitchen
• Mummy Calzone by Curious Cuisiniere
• Pumpkin Soup by Juanita’s Cocina
• Pizza Bones by Cindy’s Recipes and Writings
• Sincere Pumpkin Patch Spicy Cheese Ball by Food Lust People Love
• Spooky Stew by Happy Baking Days
• Bloody Rice by Crazy Foodie Stunts
• Ghost Flatbread Pizzas by Family Foodie