No, it’s not a rather major typo or a poor attempt at alliteration at all costs. I actually did make cookies made with choc chips and chickpeas. They were from Jessica Seinfeld’s Deceptively Delicious, a book that I received for Christmas but haven’t cooked from lately.

I can see why chickpeas work, they’re like a soft, very mild tasting nut. But the idea of chickpeas in a cookie is somewhat jarring. And given that there are 2 whole cups of chocolate chips, 1 cup of brown sugar and 3/4 of a cup of butter in them, I can see why it would work. I’m sure there’s a rule in baking: just add 2 cups of chocolate, 1 cup of brown sugar and 3/4 cup of butter to anything and it will be fine.

So whilst these aren’t the lowest fat or healthiest cookies, they taste fantastic. You absolutely cannot taste the chickpeas in these at all so if your loved one (I include husbands in this, not just kids as I know many a wife who tries to get her husband to eat more veges), is at all resistant to vegetables, give him or her this. They won’t even guess that they’ve got dreaded vegetable bits in them!

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