Gluten-Free Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Gluten-Free Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

This healthy recipe yields moist and tasty cookies with a cake-like texture.

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 10

Total Time 25

Servings

Author Veggie Primer

Ingredients

2¼ cups gluten-free all purpose flour I use Bob’s Red Mill
½ tsp. xanthan gum
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. fine sea salt
1 Tbsp. chia seeds
¼ cup water
¼ cup grape seed oil
½ cup natural unsweetened applesauce
¾ cup maple syrup
¼ tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 cup dairy-free mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts walnuts or pecans are nice

Instructions

Grind 1 Tbsp. of chia seeds in a blender or coffee grinder and stir into ¼ cup of water and set aside to allow to thicken.
Preheat oven to 375º. (I like to use my convection toaster oven - which heats up quickly, so I usually preheat after the dough is mixed - but you’ll want to turn a conventional oven on sooner.)
Combine flour, xanthan gum, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl and stir with a wire whisk to mix the ingredients.
Add chia seed mixture, grape seed oil, applesauce, maple syrup and vanilla extract to the dry ingredients and stir with a large spoon until the ingredients are well mixed.
Add chocolate chips and chopped nuts and stir to mix well.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and drop rounded spoonfuls of dough about 2 inches apart on the paper.
Bake 8-10 minutes in a conventional oven or until cookies are set and tops begin to brown. (Bake 7-8 minutes in a convection toaster oven.)
Use a spatula to remove cookies from baking sheet immediately and cool on a wire rack.

Notes

The recipe makes about three dozen cookies. A serving size is about two cookies.

I use two cookie sheets and prepare one while the other is baking. I don’t find it necessary to change the parchment paper each time; the paper holds up to two or three bakings.

Note: Nutrition information is a rough estimate for special dietary needs. I subscribe to the theories presented in the book Whole and believe we should focus on eating a variety of whole foods instead of counting calories or keeping track of individual nutrients.

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