vegan cookie recipe

Hey everyone! Sorry it’s been a while, I have been insanely busy at work these past few weeks so haven’t had much time to do anything other than work, sleep or eat – oh what an envious life I lead! However, to make up for my lack of posting, I am coming at you with a delicious chocolate chip cookie recipe today. These little bites of yumminess have kept me going over the past couple of weeks – I ate seven on Friday, yes you read that right, seven – I know, I know I’m an animal, but they’re seriously that good, plus I’m a major comfort eater! TMI? ANYWAY, everyone who has tried them, vegan or not, have loved them so I thought it was only fair that I shared the recipe with you guys.

Ingredients

1 cup molasses sugar
1 cup vegan margarine
1 cup almond milk
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3 cups oatmeal
2 tablespoons raw cacao powder
1 bar of dark vegan chocolate
icing sugar and a love heart stencil to decorate the cookies (optional)

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 250°c
Mix together the sugar and margarine until smooth
Add in the almond milk and stir until the milk has combined with the mixture
Add in the flour and baking soda and stir until well mixed
Chop the chocolate into small chunks
Add in the oatmeal, chocolate chunks and cacao and stir
Spoon small balls of the mixture onto a baking tray covered in baking paper and flatten
Bake in the oven for around 15 minutes or until done
Place the love heart stencil on top of each cookie and sprinkle icing sugar on top
Finally, leave them to cool for 10 minutes, then enjoy your yummy cookies!

Last night, something very strange went on in our house… my mum and I baked cookies for the first time EVER!! My dog Poppy barked at me as I was stirring the ingredients in the mixing bowl as if to say, ‘you don’t belong here?!’ and she’s probably right. As far as domestic goddess-ness goes, I’m less Martha Stewart, more Miranda! This was definitely highlighted when I was reading measurements from my iPhone and asked my mum how to tell the difference between tablespoon and teaspoon (tsp – it could be either, right?!) and she replied with, “Well, teaspoon is the one you use to stir tea”, assuming that instead of not knowing the abbreviations, I didn’t know a tablespoon from a teaspoon. Oh dear.

Since becoming vegan, I have realised that there are lots of yummy treats I won’t be able to buy in shops anymore, so I have decided to step up my game and take this opportunity to make my own healthier AND dare I say yummier versions! I decided to start with mine and my mum’s favourite cookie: oatmeal and raisin with a dash of lemon and apple. Bakery abbreviation blunders aside, our first baking session went really well and the cookies turned out to be DELICIOUS.

So, enough of my rambling, and here is the recipe to make these bad boys (and I’m going to spell out tablespoon or teaspoon for y’all just in case anyone finds these abbreviations as confusing as I do)!

Ingredients

1 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup margarine
1/2 cup almond milk
1 cup flour
1/2 tea spoon baking soda
1 tea spoon cinnamon
1 tea spoon nutmeg
3 cups oatmeal
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup sultanas
1 apple
1 lemon

Cooking instructions

Preheat the oven to 250°c
Mix together the sugar and margarine until smooth
Add in the almond milk and stir until the milk has combined with the mixture
Add in the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg and stir until well mixed
Add in the oatmeal, raisins, sultanas, and apple (peeled and chopped into small chunks and soaked in lemon juice) and stir
Squeeze 1 whole lemon’s juice into the mixture and stir so that it is even throughout