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The Decadent Chocolate Chip Cookie – oh it’s Vegan, too!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Earth Balance Buttery Sticks room temperature
  • 1 cup Sucanat or vegan brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup Organic Cane Sugar
  • 2 flax eggs (mix 2 tbsp flax meal with 6 tbsp water in small dish)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon vegan creme de cacao *see Sound Bites for info
  • 2 1/4 cups unbleached flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup Bob's Red Mill Rolled Oats or other rolled oats
  • 1 10-12 ounce bag about 2 cupsvegan chocolate chips- I used Enjoy Life

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 360F.

  2. Prepare 1-2 baking sheets by covering with foil, parchment or silpat.

  3. Prep flax eggs: in a small dish or ramekin, mix 2 tbsp flax meal with 6 tbsp water and set aside for about 10 minutes.

  4. In a large bowl cream butter and sugars together until uniform.

  5. Addflax eggs, vanilla and creme de cacao and mix well.

  6. Pour flour on top. Sprinkle baking soda and salt over the flour and gently mix those into the flour (this way you can avoid another bowl).
  7. Combine flour mixture with butter mixture.
  8. Add in chocolate chips and oats and combine till uniform.
  9. Cover and chill in refrigerator for 4 hours or overnight. (You can skip this step, but cookies might not be AS fluffy)
  10. Form balls of dough a little larger than golf balls as pictured- about 12 per sheet.
  11. Bake for 11 minutes until cookies look ever so slightly underdone. Allow cookies to cool for 5 minutes on sheet before removing to cooling rack.
  12. Enjoy warm or cool.
  13. Note: If for some reason these aren't gobbled up, they can be frozen. I find they stay fresher that way. Simply place cooled cookies in an airtight container and pop into the freezer. Thaw when ready to enjoy!

Recipe Notes

Vok Creme de Cacao is used in this recipe because I believe that this is THE secret ingredient. Again, serendipity played a role...I was out of vanilla and subbed with this liqueur. And the cookies were simply AMAZE! Click on the link and you will arrive at Barnivore...the vegan alcohol authority. Cheers!