![]() The first time I made it, I licked the spoon, then the whole bowl. I wouldn't call it cookie dough, though: It's more like dense nut butter with plenty of chocolate chips. But, somehow, its sweet stickiness works. I dutifully combined oats, nut butter, almond milk, honey, baking soda, and salt with chickpeas - wait, chickpeas?! It sounds like a toddler threw his plate of baby food into a batch of specialty hummus and some demented chef decided to sell the end product. I figured she had to know what she was doing.įollowing Higgins's advice, I tried out "healthy" cookie dough dip, whose recipe reassuringly has been featured in Bon Appetit, Shape, Glamour, and more. She boasts almost 20,000 followers on Twitter, 156,000 on Instagram, and a brand-new book that made Amazon's list of the top cookbooks of 2015. But the reigning "queen of healthy desserts" is Katie Higgins, who runs a blog called Chocolate Covered Katie. Online, I found an entire world of healthy dessert blogs and the women who love them: Desserts With Benefits, Ambitious Kitchen, Minimalist Baker, That Cake Chick. More than anything, these recipes reveal our tenuous relationship with food, femininity, and pleasure.Īnd oh, how it did. "Have you heard of Chocolate Covered Katie?" a fellow pudgy gal asked me over the cookie plate at a feminist meetup back in 2011. At one point I even started developing my own recipes with the perfect ratios of lean protein to healthy fats and whole-grain carbs in an attempt not to break the scale. I basically still want to eat dessert for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I always thought my sweet tooth would dissipate as I got older, but mine has only gotten worse. ![]() Of course, that hasn't stopped me from trying recipes, desperate to find a "healthy" dessert that will satisfy my cravings. I had just discovered the world of "healthy" desserts - a world in which a brownie is never just a brownie, and deception operates in the service of wellness.Īfter living in this weird universe for a few years, I've realized that the language bloggers use in these recipes reveals more about our tenuous relationship with food, femininity, and pleasure than it does about the deliciousness of black-bean brownies. I took another bite in a futile attempt to convince myself that perhaps, yes, these did taste like dessert, while I listed the healthy ingredients in my head, as if that could save the taste. The recipe had said that you didn't have to live in a "dream world" to eat certifiably healthy brownies, because these tasted "deep, dark, rich, fudgey, and chocolatey" - with "no flour required!" In reality they resembled a brown, gummy sponge with a few chocolate chips scattered on top. You can also see what we’re up to by signing up here. The archives will remain available here for new stories, head over to Vox.com, where our staff is covering consumer culture for The Goods by Vox. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years.
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