Add to: Recipe Box | Grocery List | Meal PlannerRecipe submitted by Natalia Hostile,
dotnara@juno.comEvolution CookiesIngredients (use vegan versions): 2 1/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1/3 cup
carob or cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 cup Spectrum Spread ( margarine), or just plain soy margarine if you eat
hydrogenated oil...
3/4 cup raw sugar
3/4 cup sucanat, or raw sugar with molasses added
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs worth of Ener-G Egg Replacer
1 package
carob or chocolate chips
some coffee (I use decaf, you don't have to.)
Directions:Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Stir together the flour, carob or cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in the nearest, cleanest large bowl you can find. Throw in the margarine, vegan sugar, Sucanat, and vanilla. Take your Ener-G Egg Replacer and mix it in with coffee insted of water. Throw that in too. Stir it all around like your spoons on fire. See how its a little dry? Throw in splashes of coffee until it looks right. It should be velvety and perfect-looking. Put in your carob or chocolate chips. Mix it all around again. Eat some of the dough. Feed some to (or throw some at) the person nearest you. Mmmmmmmm.
Okay, now you're ready to cook them. Put some dough-how big do you like your cookies? howe'ver much you like-onto a cookie sheet, not too close together cause they spread like crazy. Bake for 15 minutes or until it looks right. Oooh and aaah over them a bit, they should look like perfect storebought bakery cookies. Eat them, enjoy, and have tonsofun.
I call these Evolution Cookies because they seem to be the highest form of cookie evolution. You can do anything to them and they always turn out beyond awesome. So what are you reading this for? Go make some!
Serves: 10 huge cookies, or more little ones.
Preparation time: 25 minutes
Natalia, these cookies are great. Good job! My best friend makes these cookies... she is rad.
Archived comment by: lukas
Variations: use peanut or cashew butter for some or all of the Spectrum spread. Or, substitute some mashed banana for the spread, too. Even applesauce, or grated apples, or pureed prunes, can replace some of the oil content. Experiment.
Archived comment by: lori
these cookies worked great in an ice cream cake i createdd on the 4th of july. Instead of making cookies i put the batter into a pan and made brownies. I then crumpled the brownies on top of a prefrozen layer of chocolate rice dream ice cream in a round cake pan. I topped the brownie crumple with chocolate fudge syrup (look in the natural foor stores for vegan brands) and let it harden in the freezer. Finnally i topped all of the chocolate bussiness with vinilla ice cream and viola! i had a dairy queen inspired, vegan ice cream cake.
Archived comment by: megan
Do you add water with the Ener-G Egg Replacer?
Archived comment by: helen & Steve
I made these last night and they were fantastic, although they were slightly dry today. Theyre not overly sweet also--good stuff!
Archived comment by: brenda
These are the best cookies ever! I made half a batch just in case they were nasty, but I should have made a double batch! I only had to add a tiny bit of coffee to get the right texture. Delicious!
Archived comment by: destiny
I didn't exactly have the right ingredients for this recipe (I used brown vegan sugar instead of raw sugar and no chips, I didn't have any sucanat and I used vegan bread whole wheat flour) so that might have thrown off my results, but I didn't really like the cookies. The dough wasn't bad, but the cookies didn't taste that good. I suggest making these cookies as raw as you can- they tasted better to me that way anyway.
Archived comment by: felicity
they sound like so much fun. nice work on the cutty wording. i am going to make these tonite.
Archived comment by: de_perri
These cookies are fantastic! They look like fancy Mrs. F**lds cookies when they are done. Thanks for the recipe!
Archived comment by: destiny
I replaced half the Spectrum with applesauce, and used pecans and almonds instead of carob or chocolate chips. They still turned out well. Thank you!
Archived comment by: classystar
PS--When I used applesauce instead of all of the Spectrum Spread, I found that I had to grease the cookie sheet, and if I left the cookies in the oven longer than ten minutes they burned.
Archived comment by: classystar
I made a few variations: * Instead of using all whole wheat pastry flour, I used 1 cup of graham flour, 1 cup of whole wheat pastry flour, and 1/4 cup of rolled oats. * I replaced -half- of the margarine with applesauce. * I replaced the chocolate chips with filberts. * I used about 3/4 of the sugar. This works out very well, but they didn't seem to spread out as much as I thought they would, so I had to mash them down with the back of a spoon after 10 minutes to make sure they would bake evenly. This is a great recipe with a cool name. Howe'ver, I find it hard to believe that it developed over time though random unguided changes. I see evidence of an intelligence at work here, call it what you will.
(kidding!)
Archived comment by: frostybird
These cookies were pretty good. They didn't spread out that much but I think that's because I didn't add as much coffee. I really like them though. Theyd be great with this raw cashew gelato I know how to make. I bet this would be a great cake batter! A++ from me!!
Archived comment by: earthChild
earth balance is non-hydrogenated and i think it is far yummier than spectrum spread.
Archived comment by: moonshadow
