Disappearing Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies Food

VEGAN CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
• In a medium bowl, whisk the all-purpose flour, salt and baking soda to combine.
• Using a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the vegan butter or margarine, cane sugar and coconut sugar on medium speed until very light, 3 to 4 minutes.
• In a small bowl, whisk the flaxseed with 2 tablespoons room temperature water to combine. Add this mixture to the mixer and mix well on medium speed to combine. Scrape the bowl well, then add the vanilla and mix to combine.
• Add the dry ingredients and mix on low speed until just combined, 5 to 10 seconds. Scrape the bowl well and mix on low speed to ensure the mixture is homogenous.
• Add the chocolate and mix just until incorporated. Scoop the dough into 8 (3 1/2 ounce/100 gram) mounds of dough the size of generous golf balls, and transfer them to the prepared baking sheets. Stagger the rows to allow the cookies room to spread.
• Gently press the mounded cookies down slightly using your fingers until about 1/2-inch thick. Sprinkle lightly with sea salt, if using. Bake the cookies, switching racks and rotating the sheets halfway through, until they're golden brown around the edges and just barely set in the center, 18 to 21 minutes. Transfer sheets to a wire rack for 10 minutes, then transfer cookies with a spatula onto another rack to cool a bit more.

CHEWY VEGAN CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grind flax seeds in a blender until they become a fine powder, then add the soy milk and blend for about 30 seconds more and set aside.
• In a large bowl, sift together cocoa, flour, baking soda and salt.
• Cream the sugar and oil in a separate large bowl.
• Add the flax/soy milk mixture and mix well.
• Stir in the vanilla.
• Slowly mix in the dry ingredients (the original recipe does not call for a mixer, but you may want to use yours.).
• Mix in the chocolate chips.
• Roll dough into 1" balls and flatten into disks about 1 1/2" in diameter.
• Place on an ungreased cookie sheet about 1" apart and bake for 10 minutes.
• Let rest on the cookie sheet for about 5 minutes, then remove with a spatula to a cooling rack and cool completely.
• **For chocolate chocolate chip cherry cookies, replace 1 teaspoon of the vanilla with almond extract, and use 3/4 cup chocolate chips and 3/4 cup chopped cherries.
• ***For chocolate nut cookies, replace 1 teaspoon of the vanilla with a nut extract (almond, walnut, etc) and replace the chocolate chips with 1 1/2 cups chopped nuts of your choice.