Happy Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 cups unbleached flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
cinnamon, to taste, optional
handful vegan chocolate or carob chips
1 cup raw sugar (turbinado; sucanat works too, but sucks up a lot of the moisture)
1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup water
1. Very important-make sure all ingredients are at room temperature. It will work if they're not at room temp but it works much better if they are. Also while your oven is pre-heating put the cookie sheets you are going to use on top of the oven so they get preheated as well. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Stir in chips. Make a well in the center and set aside. In a medium size bowl, add together sugar and oil; mix well.
3. Add the vanilla and then add the water; mix well. Add the wet to the well in the dry. Mix it well but be careful not to overwork it. Add more chips if you need to.
4. Spoon onto ungreased cookie sheets. Put them in the oven. Bake for 5 minutes and then flip and rotate the sheets (top to bottom and 180 degree rotation). Bake another 4 minutes and check them. The cookies are done when they seem a little bit softer then you want them to be. They will harden up some as they cool. I usually go in 2 minute increments from here until they get to where I like them.
5. Take them out when they are done and move them to wire cooling racks. If they split or come apart when you try to remove them let them sit on the pan for 2 minutes before transferring them to the racks.
These cookies have come a long way, lots of time and tasting spent on getting them to where they are now. Vegans and non vegans love them. In the words of my 6 year old son:Mom, you're the greatest because you know how to make the best cookies. Enjoy and let me know if you have questions. Sweet travels.
SO HOW'D IT GO?
wait i can't count lol it made 14 cookies not 8 :-X
well i was in the mood for baking and figured this many people saying these cookies rocked was enough reason to try them
making them was so easy and the raw cookie dough was soooooooooooo good! i'm surprised i actually got the cookies in the oven ;)
i like making big cookies though so i only had 8 total and 1 baking pan. i baked them for 5 minutes then flipped it around 180º and baked for another 5 minutes but they were still a real light color. so i flipped the pan around again and left them in for another 5 minutes and they were perfect. let them cool and enjoyed one myself. gave the local apartment maintenance guy one (hey gotta be good to those that fix your broken stuff ;) ) and the remaining 6 will be brought to work for the treats to be shared :)>>>
thank you so much for the wonderful recipe! i'm going to make another batch soon for my mom and brother when they come to visit in a few weeks >:D
i love these. and even my non vegan sister loves them. i have to make a batch for her every week. she eats like 3 or 4 a day! but the only thing i noticed is that they needed more liquid so i had to add a nother 1/4 cup of water. without the extra water it was not sticking together and just crumbled
Excellent recipe and so easy too! They were gone in a day... Thanks!
These were great!!!!!!! Although they were a little raw in the middle on the first day I made them (because I was too scared they were going to get too hard if I left them in the oven) but the next day they were the perfect consistency. I still ate them at any consistency... HEHEHE!!!!!!! :D Everyone definitely make them! Yum!!!!!!!!!!
replaced the oil with melted earth balance and the sugar with 3/4 cup of maple syrup (bit less water too). delicious!
I didn't have vegan choc chips so I used the normal ones. They were good.
Ok so I have made these cookies seriously like a thousand times already! (I am slowly turning my students into veggies and they don't even know it hahahahaha) THEY LOVE THESE COOKIES!
BUT......I have been craving Peanut Butter like a madwoman lately and would LOVE to try adding PB into this recipe......not being a baker how would i do that? Just add desired amount of PB into dough? Or use PB in another ingred. place? Any ideas? and please do not bash me as I am not as creative a baker as I am a cook!! ;)
love ya guys
erin~
I don't know what I did wrong! I followed the recipe exactly but my cookies didn't brown at all (they just stayed white) but got a little too done on the bottom.. and they didn't taste good at all, they tasted more like vegetable oil-flavored cookies with melted chocolate chips mixed in. Maybe they would have tasted better if I had used Earth Balance instead of straight vegetable oil?? Either way, they were very disappointing and I don't think I'll be making these again.
Well, like uhblondie said, they don't really brown. But the flavor shouldn't turn out like that, even with vegetable oil. Did you use enough sugar?
I don't know what I did wrong! I followed the recipe exactly but my cookies didn't brown at all (they just stayed white) but got a little too done on the bottom.. and they didn't taste good at all, they tasted more like vegetable oil-flavored cookies with melted chocolate chips mixed in. Maybe they would have tasted better if I had used Earth Balance instead of straight vegetable oil?? Either way, they were very disappointing and I don't think I'll be making these again.
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