My Wannabe Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

So tonight I thought I would make some chocolate chip cookies for my parents... but we used the rest of our eggs in the frittata that my dad made for dinner! So this was a better time than ever to try out VEGAN baking! I hear it's all the rage these days...


I got this recipe from another blog and made a few adjustments of my own [because I make for a terrible wannabe vegan...]


ORIGINAL RECIPE:

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Adapted from Kirsten's Kitchen

2 cups flour

1 cup turbinado sugar (or granulated sugar)

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup dark chocolate chips/chunks (make sure they're vegan!)

2/3 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup soy/almond milk

1 tsp vanilla

1 tbsp dark molasses

- Preheat oven to 350 degrees

- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and chocolate chips.

- In another bowl, combine the vegetable oil, milk, vanilla, and molasses.

- Add the wet mixture to the dry and mix well with a wooden spoon or your hands to get the mixture well incorporated.

- Roll dough into compact balls, place on a parchment paper-lined pan, and squish them down to form saucers.

- Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes. Let cookies cool for 5 minutes on the pan before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Recipe yields about 16 cookies.

(http://www.ericasweettooth.com/2011/05/vegan-chocolate-chip-cookies.html)

MY RECIPE:

2 cups flour 

1 cup granulated sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 t salt

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (about 1/2 a bag or less)

2/3 cup unsalted butter

1/4 heavy cream (yeah... we didn't even have milk but any milk would be great!)

2 T vanilla (I'm always vanilla happy)

1 T molasses

I followed the same directions and baked them for nine minutes at 350 degrees.

So basically I made a botched version of vegan cookies and they were delicious! I would definitely try out this recipe (whether you follow the original, or mine)! My batch made 24 fairly big cookies.  They bake up really well and they are soft and chewy!

So try it out and let me know how it works out for you because this has proven to be a good recipe when you're in a pinch and don't have hardly any ingredients for real chocolate chip cookies!