Vegan Chocoloate Chip Cookies

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Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

  • Servings: 2.5 dozen
  • Difficulty: easy
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Ingredients

  • 3 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp coarse sea salt
  • 1 cup Earth Balance butter
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil
  • 1 1/4 cups light brown sugar
  • 1 cup + 2 tbsp granulated sugar
  • 1/2 organic applesauce
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 lb vegan mega chocolate chunks
  • flake sea salt

Directions

    Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees F.
  1. Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Whisk to combine and set aside.
  2. Blend the butter, oil, and sugars until creamy, then add the applesauce and vanilla.
  3. Mix wet ingredients into dry and mix until well combined.
  4. Stir in mega chocolate chunks.
  5. Roll cookies into a ball and place on parchment lined cookie sheets, press down slightly, sprinkle flake sea salt onto each cookie.
  6. Bake for 16 minutes at 375 degrees or until golden brown.
  7. Let cool then store in freezer bags.

Cranberry Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies


Cranberry Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies

  • Servings: 3 dozen
  • Difficulty: easy
  • Source: adapted from the BakerbyNature
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When it's time to bring out the china you love and use it on yourself!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup coconut oil, solid (be sure it is not meled at all)
  • 2 – 1/2 cups light brown sugar, packed tight
  • 4 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup thickened coconut milk, skimmed from the top of a can of full fat coconut milk that has been refrigerated until firm. Do not discard liquid.
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
  • 4-12/ cups all=purpose flour (be sure not to pack your flour)
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 bag vegan mini chocolate chips
  • 2 cups walnuts, chopped
  • 1-1/2 cups unsweetened dry cranberries

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper, set aside.
  2. In a large bowl whisk together the coconut oil, brown sugar, and vanilla, beating until well combined. Add in the coconut milk and applesauce and whisk until well combined; set aside. In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking soda, and salt; whisk well.
  3. Add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and blend until there are not traces of flour remaining.
  4. Fold in chocolate chips, walnuts and cranberries and mix until blended throughout.
  5. Using a medium size stainless steel ice cream scoop drop 8 mounds onto each tray and lightly moisten your fingers with the leftover liquid from the can of coconut milk, and flatten each cookie prior to baking.
  6. Bake one tray at a time for 15 minutes. Transfer to a wire cooling rack and completely cool before serving.

Today is my birthday! So I celebrated with cookies and tea by the pool before capturing this shot. Hope you enjoy!

Chocolate Sambuca Cookies

Chocolate Sambuca Cookies

  • Servings: 30 cookies
  • Difficulty: easy
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Back in the day I would bake a non-vegan version of these cookies and gift to friends at Christmas. Then it began to bother me knowing the impact animal fat and dairy was having on their health, so I stopped. Today I decided to create a vegan version... and it pushes all the right buttons for me!


Ingredients

  • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup raw cocoa powder
  • 1 cup Black Sambuca
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup almond milk
  • 2 tsp ground golden flax seed
  • 1/2 cup coconut oil
  • 1 tbsp vanilla bean paste
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Add the first 5 ingredients to a large mixing bowl and blend to incorporate raw cocoa and flour.
  3. Put the next 6 ingredients into a Vita-Mix or heavy duty blender and blend until flax seeds are well broken down and everything is blended smooth. Let the liquid sit for a couple of minutes while you chop the walnuts.
  4. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry mix and blend before adding the chopped nuts.
  5. Drop cookie batter onto parchment lined cookie sheets and flatten slightly by dipping your fingertips into a very small amount of additional almond milk (just enough to wet your fingertips).
  6. Add additional chopped walnut pieces to decorate flattened cookies before baking, if desired.

Cranberry, Raisin, Oatmeal, Walnut Cookies

Cranberry, Raisin, Oatmeal, Walnut Cookies

Cranberry, Raisin, Oatmeal, Walnut Cookies

  • Servings: 18
  • Difficulty: easy
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This is a throw-together of ingredients onhand that turned out to be a really scrumptous vegan cookie. I will make this one again and again, for sure!


Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup almond pulp
  • 1 cup almond flour
  • 1/2 cup pastry flour
  • 1 cup organic cane sugar
  • 1/2 cup coconut oil
  • 1/2 cup raw honey
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla bean paste
  • 1 Tbsp cinnamon powder
  • 1/4 tsp Himalayan pink salt
  • 1/4 to 1/2 cup almond milk
  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • 1/2 cup dried cranberries
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

  1. Add first 13 ingredients, along with enough almond milk to create a thick drop-cookie-like consistency, to a large bowl and mix well.
  2. Add cranberries, raisins and chopped walnuts and blend.
  3. Scoop or drop cookies onto a parchment lined cookie sheet and flatten to shape.
  4. Bake at 375 degrees for 18 minutes.

Creamy Chocolate Fudge Cookies

Creamy Chocolate Fudge Cookies

Creamy Chocolate Fudge Cookies

  • Servings: 16-18 Cookies
  • Difficulty: easy
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I'm going through a lot of home-made almond milk lately, due to drinking plant based smoothies twice a day, so I try to come up with alternate cookie recipes to use the leftover pulp. I never know what the exact ingredients will be. I just look through the cupboard and the fridge to see what I have on hand, pull out some standby spices and wait to see what happens! This is what happened today!


High Protein Cookie Batter

  • 1 cup fresh pressed and moist almond meal
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup pineapple/mango jelly (I used St. Dalfour 100% fruit)
  • 1/4 cup organic cane sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1-1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
  • 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 to 1/2 tsp Himalayan pink salt
  • 1/2 cup sliced almonds
  • 3 scoops creamy chocolate fudge Organic Plant Protein powder (I used Orgain – my favorite)
  • 1/2 cup mixture of organic cane sugar (mix with cocoa powder below)
  • 2 tsp raw cocoa powder (mix with sugar and use to roll cookies in prior to baking)

Directions

  1. Place the first 9 ingredients into a big mixing bowl and smooch it all around to blend it nice and creamy.
  2. Add the sliced almonds and blend to disburse.
  3. Put the the sugar and raw cocoa into a spice grinder (coffee grinder) and grind to a fine texture.
  4. Cover baking sheet with parchment paper.
  5. Roll cookies in sugar/cocoa mix and place onto baking sheet. Flatten with the palm of your hand and sprinkle with additional sugar/cocoa mix, adding and moving sliced almonds as you go.

Peanut Butter, Chocolate Chip & Coconut Cookies

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip & Coconut Cookies

Peanut Butter, Chocolate Chip & Coconut Cookies

  • Servings: 12-15 cookies
  • Difficulty: easy
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After making a fresh batch of Almond Milk I had all this leftover pulp and was in the mood to test some new cookie ideas. Somehow when I think chocolate I think peanut butter and when I think almond milk I think coconut. So there you go!


Ingredients

  • 1-1/2 cup raw moist almond meal, organic (leftover from fresh blended almond milk}
  • 1/2 to 3/4 cup Smucker’s Organic Creamy Peanut Butter
  • 1/2 cup large flake coconut
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla bean paste
  • 1/4 tsp himalayan pink salt
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp maple syrup
  • 1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips
  • 1 pinch black salt, I used India Black Kala Namak Salt #5
  • 2 Tbsp coconut oil
  • 1 cup Organic cane sugar, to roll cookies in prior to baking

Directions

  1. Line cookie tray with parchment paper.
  2. Mix all ingredients, with the exception of the organic cane sugar, in a medium size bowl until well blended, paying attention to the mositure content. You want the mix to hold together without being too moist.
  3. Shape cookies into balls and roll in cane sugar to coat.
  4. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes, then press cookies down to give them the crinkle affect.
  5. Bake an additional 15 minutes or until cookies turn light to medium brown.
  6. Let cookies cool on the tray for 10 minutes, after removing from oven, then transfer to a serving plate or storage container.

Macaroon Madness

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Macaroon Madness

  • Servings: 12
  • Difficulty: easy
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A satisfying treat for when the snack attack hits you. Vary your flavored extracts and toppings for unlimited varieties.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup coconut manna
  • 1/2 cup coconut oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • juice from 1/2 lemon
  • liquid stevia, or agave to taste
  • 4 drops almond flavor
  • 1 – 1 1/2 cup coconut meal

Directions


Blend first 6 ingredients adding a tad more coconut oil until they stick together and hold their shape when scooped onto trays. I used a small ice cream scoop and the tray from my dehydrator and just put them in the freezer while I made up the icing.

Make the Icing

  • 1-1/2 cups of soaked cashews
  • 1 tsp. of vanilla
  • 1/2 cup of coconut oil
  • 1/4 – 1/2 cup vegan powdered sugar
  • add any additional extract flavoring you’re drawn to
  • Keep it simple first go around and then shoot for the stars on the next batch.

When you pull them from the freezer just dip them in the icing and top with drizzled raw chocolate that hardens like a chocolate shell, or top with grated lemon, orange, lime, or tangerine zest.

Chocolate Shell Topping