Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies are the best perfectly soft vegan cookies. Only 1 bowl and simple ingredients.
Servings: 19
Calories: 138kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup vegan butter (113 grams - melted and cooled)
- ⅓ cup vegan cane sugar (67 grams)
- ½ cup packed light brown sugar (110 grams)
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- ⅓ cup vegan yogurt (80 grams)
- ½ tablespoon molasses (10.75 grams)
- 2 cups unbleached all purpose flour (250 grams)
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- ⅛ teaspoon sea salt
- ⅔ cup vegan chocolate chips
- 1 pinch flakey sea salt optional sprinkle on top
Instructions
- Pre heat the oven to 360° F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Remove yogurt from the fridge and let come to room temp.
- In a large bowl, melt the butter in 15 second intervals, let cool.
- Next add the white and brown sugar, vanilla, molasses, and room temp vegan yogurt. Whisk until well combined.
- Add in the flour, baking soda, cornstarch and salt, use spatula and fold until almost combined, do not over mix.
- Fold in the chocolate chips. Place in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Use a 1 ounce cookie scoop (about 2 tablespoons) and scoop out the cookies onto a lined backing sheet with 6-8 cookies depending on how big your cookie sheet is. Bake 11 minutes on the middle rack.
- Sprinkle with sea salt once removed from the oven, optional but next level good. Store in a sealed container up to 3-4 days.
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Notes
Size/Do not over bake: Be sure you don't over bake these cookies. Make sure you are using a 1.5 ounce (or about 2 tablespoons) sized cookie scoop and bake on the middle shelf, on a parchment paper lined aluminum baking sheet for 12 minutes. They might not seem done to you, but they are. You want them to be just set around the edges and still soft in the center almost looking underbaked, they will continue to bake while they cool for another 5 minutes on the baking sheet, before removing to cool.
Baking Sheet: Use a light colored baking sheet, if you only have a dark one I recommend checking on the cookies at about 10 minutes, dark pans tend to burn the bottom of the cookies more because they get hotter.
Butter: For this recipe I have used Earth Balance stick butter, VioLife block butter and Miyokos block butter (now reformulated and called Melt) and it needs to be measured then melted (not softened) and then cooled.
Yogurt: I like the So Delicious brand or SILK almond.
Chocolate: I like Enjoy Life, Hu Chocolate and Just Date brands.
Measuring the butter: I recommend a kitchen scale for best results, a little bit too much or too little will really affect the cookies. If you do not have a scale or a full stick of butter with measuring lines on it, I use the "dry cup method" for measuring the butter, scoop the butter into a dry measuring cup and level it off with the back of a butter knife. Butter gets measured before melting it.
Measuring sugar: To measure white sugar use a dry measuring cup, scoop it into the bag and level it off using the back of a butter knife. If you have a kitchen scale it would be more accurate to use that.
Measuring brown sugar: To measure brown sugar use a dry measuring cup, scoop it into the cup and pack it firmly. If you have a kitchen scale it would be more accurate to use that.
Measuring flour: To measure all purpose white flour, a kitchen scale is the best and most accurate way to measure, but if you don’t have one using the dry cup method is the next best. To measure flour, spoon the flour into the measuring cup and use a butter knife to level it off gently. Avoid packing the flour this will result in way too much flour being used. Please note that most “gram” conversions are based on white all purpose flour, not all flours weigh the same so please make sure that if you are substituting a different flour such as oat, gluten free or any others that the best way to measure would be using the dry cup method.
Storing the cookies: Store the cookies in a sealed container at room temperature for 3-5 days. (Best practice is with a piece of white bread in the container to keep the cookies soft, it's not a joke it works).
Freezing: You can also freeze the dough by scooping them out using a cookie scoop and placing them on a parchment paper lined baking sheet in the freezer until frozen and then store them in a freezer zip lock bag for up to 3 months. To bake them, let them thaw out on the counter for about 30 minutes or on the stove while pre heating for 10-15 minutes (while sitting on parchment paper lined baking sheet) then bake according to directions.
Nutrition
Calories: 138kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Sodium: 82mg | Potassium: 24mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 0.3IU | Calcium: 12mg | Iron: 1mg
