Ingredients:

1 can chickpeas

1/2 cup peanut butter
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla extract 

1/4 cup maple syrup or honey (bit more if you want them sweeter)
1/4 cup dark chocolate chips/chunks (more or less as preferred)

*add pinch of salt if no salt in PB 

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

• Drain chickpeas into a sieve and rinse under cold water.

• Pour out onto a teatowel and pat dry, this is essential otherwise the mixture will be too wet.

• Add all ingredients except the chocolate chips into a high speed blender and blend starting slow to high. The mixture will be thick so if the motor gets "stuck," turn it off and then scrape down the sides. Add 1-3 tsp of water, at the most, and blend again.

• Scoop the mixture out of the blender into a mixing bowl.

• Add choc chips and stir just enough to mix through evenly. 

• Spray a baking pan or use parchment paper. 

• Scoop out dough with a small cookie scooper or small spoon as the dough will be super sticky. If you don't have a scooper, then use your slightly wet hands, grab about 1 tablespoon's worth and roll into a ball.

• Place and bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes. Mid way through cooking if you want to, use the back of a fork to gently press into more of a cookie shape and return to oven. Keeping an eye on them the last few minutes so they don't burn.

• Once started to brown and crisp up remove from oven and transfer to a wire cooling rack before eating!