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Satisfy your chocolate cravings with these soft and chewy sea-salted Vegan Chocolate Cookies. These vegan cookies are also gluten-free, grain-free and soy-free as well as free from added oil, refined sugar and refined flour.
A soft and chewy cookie with no added oil?
Is that even possible?
The answer is YES!
I am definitely one to indulge in delicious desserts filled with vegan butter, but sometimes it's nice to have a treat that's not loaded with unhealthy oils.
However, making an oil-free cookie that's still moist and delicious isn't always an easy task, especially when you're also leaving out gluten, dairy and eggs.
So, I had to find a substitute for the vegan butter that would elicit a similar result.
Enter almond butter.
It's creamy, contains a natural oil and has enough fat to do the job. 🙂
For the flour, I went with chickpea flour since it worked so well in my vegan chocolate chip cookies. It's also what makes these cookies grain-free.
For sugar, I used a combination of coconut sugar and maple syrup as the addition of a liquid sweetener helped to keep these cookies moist.
As an egg replacement, I went with aquafaba because it worked perfectly in not only my chocolate chip cookies, but also my oat flour cookies, vegan brownie bites and chickpea flour brownies.
The rest of the ingredients in the cookies themselves are cocoa powder, vanilla extract, baking soda and salt.
I also topped them off with coarse, flaky sea salt, but you can leave it off if you prefer.
One of the best things about these cookies is that even though there is no butter in them, my kids absolutely loved them!
And, so did the hubby.
Cookie mission accomplished. 😉
How to Make These Vegan Chocolate Cookies
First, preheat your oven to 350° F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Add almond butter, coconut sugar, maple syrup, aquafaba and vanilla extract to a mixing bowl.
Stir to combine.
Add chickpea flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda to a separate mixing bowl.
Stir to combine.
Add the flour mixture to the almond butter mixture and stir to combine.
Use a cookie scoop to create dough balls and place them on the parchment-lined baking sheet.
Press down on each dough ball with your fingers.
Reshape the edges of each unbaked cookie so that they are circular in shape.
Bake for 9-11 minutes until cookies are set. You will see cracking across the top.
If using the sea salt, sprinkle on top of each cookie immediately after removing them from the oven.
Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring them to cooling rack or plate.
Storing the Cookies
Cookies are best when stored in a single layer in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. They will soften more during storage. You can also refrigerate them to last a couple more days.
Want more cookies? Try our 3-ingredient vegan peanut butter cookies next.
Vegan Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsweetened, unsalted creamy almond butter with no added oil (room temperature)
- 6 tbsp coconut sugar
- 3 tbsp pure maple syrup
- 3 tbsp aquafaba (liquid from a can of no salt added, canned chickpeas)
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup chickpea flour (aka garbanzo bean flour)
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- ½ tsp baking soda
- Coarse sea salt, for sprinkling (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Add almond butter, coconut sugar, maple syrup, aquafaba and vanilla extract to a mixing bowl. Using a spoon, stir to combine.
- Add chickpea flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda to a separate mixing bowl. Using a spoon, stir to combine.
- Add the flour mixture to the almond butter mixture and stir to combine with a spoon.
- Use a cookie scoop to create dough balls and place them on the parchment-lined baking sheet. Press down on each dough ball with your fingers. Reshape the edges of each unbaked cookie so that they are circular in shape.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes until cookies are set. You will see cracking across the top. If using the sea salt, sprinkle on top of each cookie immediately after removing them from the oven. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring them to cooling rack or plate.
(Please refer to the post above for instructional photographs for this recipe)
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