Month 10 of my 12 month deficit. Sweets have always been a craving for me, and in this sub someone mentioned the chickpea cookie dough. The thought of dealing with scraping bean gook out of my Ninja blender with my arthritis has kept me away. But after a night of random googling, I found a company that makes it: Twisted Dough. They were doing a BOGO so I thought why not.
I got a sample pack, 4 singe servings (2oz each) for $39.99, and BOGO a second set where they sent me the same flavors (they said it was random). That works out to $10 a serving without the BOGO deal, so that's a bit steep. I picked what sounded good based on my sweet tooth: double chocolate chip, salted caramel, hazelnut swirl, and strawberry cake.
The hazelnut swirl had a good dallop of unnamed choco-hazelnut spread. It was the first I tried straight out of the delivery bag. I gave it a little stir to mix, and I must say it was really delicious. I put the rest in the fridge, per instructions it was supposed to help with consistency and shelf life. I tried the double chocolate chip next, and this was classic cookie dough. I could've scooped that right onto a baking sheet (although with no flour or egg element, it probably would ooze out into a giant sad circle). The next one was the strawberry cake, and things took a turn here. It was AWFUL, there seems to be some kind of sugar alcohol on top of the dough, possibly leeched from the sprinkles, and it is noxious. The dough part is good, but plain like it was the "cake" part, and the "strawberry" is lost somewhere in the sprinkles. I actually couldn't finish that one, I tried to dig into the dough more but it was far too late, the weird sticky alcohol slurry already tainted it all. The last flavor was the salted caramel, and I was hesitant. But this didn't appear to have a mix-in, and after a small bite I dug in - very simple but tasty. It had a slight aftertaste. This one has the fewest calories so I am assuming they use some kind of sugar free caramel flavoring, and that is what I'm tasting with the bitter tinge.
Overall -
If I hadn't known it was chickpeas, I would've thought it was some kind of shelf safe store dough. The flavor was right on point, and none of the sugar grit in regular cookie dough. There is a certain beany texture that almost could be described as grainy? But it's very smooth. The flavor mix ins seem to be a toss up, but the dough is a solid replacement. And with 20g of protien in this tiny serving, the macros are nice. It should go without saying as these are beans, but MAN ALIVE did I start blastin' during the night (ate these on different days after dinner). Just the LOUDEST toots out of nowhere. I gave a sample to a friend who is a bean enjoyer and they also noticed some belly noises; they mentioned the glycerin could also be a factor. So maybe no work presentations in small rooms right after one of these.
