Healthy Chickpea Peanut Butter Blondies

Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Line an 8 x 8-inch square pan with foil and spray with cooking spray. Set aside.

Open the can of chickpeas and drain the fluid from the can. Put chickpeas in a strainer and rinse under running water (I soaked my rinsed chickpeas in a bowl of water while I gathered all the rest of my ingredients too).

Fit your food processor with the S blade attachment and throw the chickpeas, peanut butter, coconut sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and both extracts in the bowl of the food processor. Turn food processor on and let ingredients process until the mixture is creamy and there are no chunks of chickpeas. You may need to stop periodically to scrape the sides of the bowl down to ensure all ingredients get finely processed.

Remove blade and bowl from processor. Wait several minutes for your mixture to cool down then add your baking chips and fold in by hand. If you add the baking chips immediately, they will melt.

Pour mixture into prepared pan and bake in 350-degreee oven for 25-minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Let blondies set in the pan and cool completely before cutting into desired sized squares.