Happy Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

2 cups unbleached flour

2 tsps baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

cinnamon (to taste)

vegan chocolate or carob chips - put in as many as you like

1 cup raw sugar

1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil

1 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup water

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees

In a large bowl mix flour, baking powder, salt cinnamon. Add chocolate chips. Make a well in the center and set aside.

In a medium bowl mix sugar and canola oil. Add the vanilla and then add the water. Mix them well.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Mix it well but don't overwork it. Add more chips if you need to. Spoon into ungreased cookie sheets and place them in the oven. Bake for 5 minutes and then rotate the trays in the oven 180 degrees. Bake another 4 minutes.

After eating some chocolate sorbet I had the urge to bake some chocolate chip cookies. I found this recipe randomly on the internet, I forget where. It was pretty easy except when mixing the dry and wet ingredients. It didn't mix so well together. There wasn't enough wet ingredients to completely mix with the dry. I had to add a little more water and canola oil to saturate all the flour.

The baking part was fast though. 10 minutes total? Sweet. The recipes also said that the cookies will harden as they cool which was a little worrisome taking out a cookie that didn't look done. After a couple minutes I gave a cookie a good poke it seemed completely done. I tried one and it was super chocolatey and goooood. Duda approved too. I asked if there was anything missing and he said no. Score.

I think I will use some peanut butter as another binding agent instead of more canola oil - when i was forming the cookies they were a little too oily. Besides, everything it better with peanut butter.

Photo: Lucy Pupperton approved.

Update - I added peanut butter and upped the canola oil to 3/4 cup and water to 2/3 cup and it worked perfectly!! I got lots of compliments. Those cookies were demolished!!