[Vegan] Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies

Today I thought it would be fun to have one of my closest friends (and bridesmaids!) do a guest post on vegan baking. Shannon just started her blog in the past week or so and we decided to trade a blog design for some awesome vegan baking guest posts! If you've got any last minute time to kill, maybe you could whip some of these bad boys up for your Thanksgiving festivities tomorrow! Enjoy!
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Hi! My name is Shannon. I recently started my blog, Leaves & Flours, because I wanted to show people that neither baking nor veganism were too difficult. When I went vegan I had to learn how to bake all the treats that I knew I would miss otherwise. And really, nothing makes me happier than sharing treats with people.

There's a DC based bakery named Sticky Fingers (you may have seen them on Cupcake Wars) that makes a sweet and salty chocolate chip cookie that I love. Since I appreciate it so much, I thought I would share with y'all my own recipe that was inspired by their creation. If you have any questions about vegan baking, don't hesitate to ask!


Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies
yeilds approximately one dozen

½ cup vegan butter*
½ cup brown sugar
¼ cup granulated sugar
1½ tsp vanilla extract
1 Ener-G egg or other egg replacement**
1 cup all purpose flour
1/3 cup old fashioned oats
½ tsp baking sode
1/3 tsp salt & extra salt for sprinkling
1/3 cup chocolate chips



Allow butter to soften at room temperature at least 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 375F. Cream butter & sugar. This may take some arm strength. Add vanilla & egg replacer, mix again. Mix in dry ingredients, aside from chocolate. Gently fold in chips. Using a cookie scoop or tablespoon, drop approximately 1" balls of dough spaced at least an inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Slightly flatten balls of dough with palm of hand. Bake 10-12 minutes, rotating tray once during baking. After removing cookies from oven, sprinkle with extra salt to taste. I prefer sea salt, but any should work.

* I use Earth Balance
** You can find Ener-G in most grocery stores, and one box has lasted me 3 years. As a different egg replacer, I recommending mixing 1 tbsp ground flax seeds with 2 tbsp water.



26 comments:

  1. oh yumm! hello new favourite blog too!!!

    i so love when people have vegan recipes on their blogs!

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  2. Yum they sound great!! A lot of my bf's extended family are vegan or vegetarian so I'm always keen to try new recipes that they would like/be able to eat :)

    Kc

    http://a-sparkley-silver-lining.blogspot.com/

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  3. Yum they sound great!! A lot of my bf's extended family are vegan or vegetarian so I'm always keen to try new recipes that they would like/be able to eat :)

    Kc

    http://a-sparkley-silver-lining.blogspot.com/

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  4. These look absolutely to die for. Salt+chocolate=the best!

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  5. mmmm! those look so tasty!!! thanks for sharing the recipe!!

    allister bee blog

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  6. I LOVE chocolate and salt together! I would like to try these someday

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  7. Ohhhh, these look so good! I want one...like right now! :) I've been a vegetarian for nearly 5 years now and have definitely considered veganism, but have wondered how cooking and baking comes in! Can't wait to check out Shannon's new blog and learn!

    xoxoo
    chloe ** http://flowerponychloe.blogspot.com

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  8. I am always looking for new vegan cookie recipes to try out. I can't wait to make these!

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  9. those look so good! definitely adding it to my must try list.

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  10. I can not wait to give these a try, while I am not vegan, I loooove baking vegan treats. <3

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  11. Love this! I live just outside of DC so I have the luxury of visiting Sticky Fingers pretty often. Their store is just as cute and retro as you'd imagine!

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  12. I am so happy that these are vegan! <3

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  13. MMM! Yes please!

    and btw - ACK! Two recipes! You're really gunna start getting spam about being a cooking blog, haha

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  14. Yeah, but chocolate isn't vegan. It has milk and butter in it, especially chocolate in the US. So, is there a chocolate chip substitute?

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  15. Yes, yes, yes. I'm always looking for blogs that share good vegan recipes and am going to hop over to check out your pals soon. I'm sure I'll have to check in every now and then. :)

    -Sara-

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  16. Those look crazy delicious -- I absolutely adore deserts that are salted. Thank you for sharing.

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  17. @Fenn: that's actually incorrect. Milk chocolate has dairy, but cocoa itself and semisweet chocolate has no dairy whatsoever.

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  18. these look awesome!! I love the combination of sweet and salty. thanks for sharing!

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  19. These are so freaking delicious! I just made them and they are the best choccy chip cookie ever!

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  20. This isn't good to read on an empty stomack. Before reading this I was just hungry. Now, I'm starving! Thank you :)

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  21. Are you sure these aren't supposed to have any baking powder in them? I just made them and they turned out terribly.

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  22. This recipe is absaloutely PERFECT!! I've actually made them using 1/2 cup Peanut Butter and 2 tbsp soft Vitalite with Dairy Free White Chocolate Chips and my boyfriend adores them! Thank you muchly :)

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HEY! Thanks for dropping by. xo KB