Vegan Chocolate Cookies
Double chocolate fudgy brownie cookies made without milk or eggs.
Ingredients
For the flax egg
- 1 tablespoon flax meal (or another egg replacer equal to 1 egg)
- 2 1/2 tablespoons water (to mix with the flax)
Other wet ingredients
- 1/2 cup vegan margarine (1 stick)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder (sifted if clumpy)
- 2 tablespoons plant-based milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Dry ingredients
- 1 1/3 cup flour (gluten-free mix if needed)
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 350° F (176° C).
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Mix together 1 tbsp of flax meal and 2 1/2 tbsp of water (or any other vegan egg replacer equal to 1 egg) and set aside.
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In a medium-sized bowl, mix together 1/2 cup melted vegan butter, 1 cup sugar, and 1/2 cup sifted cocoa powder until incorporated.
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Add the flax egg, 2 tbsp. milk, and 2 tsp. vanilla, then blend again until fluffy. (A hand mixer works great for this or you can stir with a wooden spoon for about 2 minutes.)
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Sprinkle in the dry ingredients (1 1/3 cup flour, 1 tbsp. cornstarch, 1/2 tsp. baking powder, and 1/2 tsp. salt) then mix until it forms a thick dough, and fold in the chocolate chips.
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Scoop out about 2 tbsp of dough and place it on a cookie sheet. Press down to form the shape and thickness of the cookie that you want. (They won't spread too much during baking.)
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Bake at 350° F (176° C) for 10-12 minutes. Take out of the oven and allow to cool on the cookie sheet for about 10 minutes before removing them.
Recipe Notes
- For best results, use stick margarine. Earth balance sticks, Mikayo, Country Crock plant-based butter, or the stick version of my homemade vegan butter work best.
- Melt the butter. Melted butter gives cookies a fudgy chewy texture. If you want a cakier cookie, you can use softened butter instead.
- Sift the cocoa powder. Cocoa powder tends to get clumpy especially in humid climates. To get cookies without clumps of cocoa powder, use a sifter or a metal mesh strainer to break up the clumps of cocoa before adding it to the cookies.
- Be sure to spoon measure the flour. This ensures that you are not packing the flour into the measuring cup and using too much flour in the recipe.