Cookie Dough Hummus
Chickpeas, cashews, and oats blended at home into a sweet dip that rides in a jar.
- calories
- 320
- weight
- 3.5 oz
- cal / oz
- 91
- protein
- 9 g
- serves
- 6, scales
- prep
- 10 min
- cook
- 0 min
- total time
- 10 min
- water
- none
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Snack
- Dessert
- No cook
- Car camping
- Day hike
- Basecamp
- Canoe / raft
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten free
- Dairy free
- Eat in the bag
- Pre-mix at home
- Needs a cooler
- Basic
Ingredients
| Garbanzo beans | 1 can (15 oz) | drained and rinsed well |
|---|---|---|
| Cashews | 1/2 cup | whole or pieces, both blend the same |
| Maple syrup | 1/3 cup | |
| Vanilla extract | 1 tsp | |
| Rolled oats | 1/2 cup | certified gluten-free if that matters to you |
| Salt | 1/4 tsp | |
| Chocolate chips | 1/3 cup | packed separately |
Method
- At home, put the drained beans, cashews, maple syrup, vanilla, oats, and salt in a food processor.
- Run it about two minutes, scraping down the sides once. Stop when it is smooth and no grit is left.
- Taste and adjust the syrup and salt. This is the last chance to fix it.
- Pack it into a screw-top jar and chill overnight. It firms up and the raw-oat edge fades.
- At camp, stir in the chocolate chips and eat it with a spoon or scoop it with crackers or apple slices.
This is a home-blender job, not a camp one. The beans are the whole structure: cooked chickpeas puree into something dense and dough-like, and the cashews and oats absorb the maple syrup so it thickens instead of running. Blend it long enough and nobody guesses what is in it.
It is not shelf-stable. Canned beans with no acid and no preservative belong in a cooler, which makes this a car-camping and paddle-trip food rather than a pack food. Five days is the outside limit. Chocolate chips go in at camp because they soften and bleed if they sit in the jar.
Packing
One wide-mouth jar, filled to the shoulder so there is room to stir. Chocolate chips go in a separate small bag; mixed in early they smear and stain the whole batch. Keep the jar in the cooler and finish it inside five days.
Variations
- Cocoa powder, two tablespoons, turns it into a chocolate version.
- Sunflower seed butter in place of the cashews makes it nut-free.
- For a backpacking version, skip the beans and blend a dehydrated hummus mix with oat flour and powdered maple sugar at home, then rehydrate with a little cold water at camp.
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