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?
Me and my husband made these last night and we ate so many we got tummy aches!! LOL they were great thank you
;)b This was surprisingly easy and delicious. Thanks
These turned out great for me. Second time I've made them and I never have any trouble. The dough is crumbly but the way to get around that is to mould it with your hands so it warms up. Time to get myself a cup of tea and tuck in!
::) I followed the recipe and made sure to take them out of the oven when they looked softer than I wanted. They were very tasty. I served them to 3 people, 2 of them are meat-eaters. They all loved them and I will passing out the recipe the next time I make them. I like how the recipe is very detailed and easy to follow, also cooking time is very short. I think the most important part to not messing these up is to not cook them too long. Keep in mind, they will firm up when cooling. Thank you for the recipe. :>
After all the reviews, I was really excited to try this recipe. But mine didn't turn out well at all. :( It's my own fault; I added too many chocolate chips. I've never made chocolate chip cookies before, so I didn't know any better. Also, I was afraid of adding too much flour and ended up not adding enough. Now I have some strange cookie-fudge hybrid things. I've put them in the fridge to firm up, but it's not looking good. Even worse, I made these to thank my friends for doing me a favor. I guess that teaches me to risk new recipes when the stakes are high. :(
I'm just feeling kind of sorry for myself here. I've been on vegweb.com for ages and seen lots of lovely recipes, so it's really a pity that my first post is a complaint. But there we are. I have yucky cookies, and I'm not happy. :(
some of the photos look like soft fluffy cookies. mine are not that pretty. my dough was crumbly and i used my hand to form them into balls then i flattened them. they are pretty good but i'm not raving. i used pastry flour, maybe that was wrong? i also didn't have any vanilla so maybe that makes a big difference. :-\
the first time i made them they were great, and now everytime i try they are worst :(
they are so sticky this time its impossible to even get them off of my hands, i even added flour its just a big mess!
and did anyone really get 2 doz, cause i cant even make it to 15 cookies!!!
whats wrong wiht me!? :-\
Okay, maybe this is just me but I made these exactly as directed in the recipe and they were the absolute worst cookies I've ever had. I thought I was doing something wrong when the dough was really crumbly and had to mold it into balls on the cookie sheet in order for them to stay together. However I double and triple checked the recipe and everything was correct. The dough tasted like nothing with chocolate chips. After baking, the cookies tasted like really really really really bland sugar cookies with chocolate chips. I was kinda sad about this because I made them with a non-vegan friend and I hope she doesn't think that all vegan cookies are bad! ah well...
I had the same reaction with these cookies. Seeing all the good reviews probably built my hopes up a bit too much. They tasted bland unless I had a bite with some chocolate. They dough was extremely crumbly and wouldn't mold into anything. So, I added more and more moisture until I could form them into something. I think if I tweek the recipe a bit, maybe they'll be better. Perhaps I messed something up. Or maybe it's because I'm used to the regular recipe on the back of a Nestle chocolate chips bag (I'm not vegan, just vegetarian).
Infinitely impressed with these cookies...I had one right out of the oven (while it was still crumbly and warm) over some Soy Delicious Neopolitan ice cream. That was amazing. Then I tried a cookie after the cooling period. I am blown away and have come to grips with the fact that I may gain approximately 500 pounds because of how easy and delicious this recipe is. ;)b ;)b
;)b I added a few tablespoons of applesauce since I read a lot of ppls were dry and they came out perfect!
Very easy recipe. Fast also!
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