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The Best Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies. Palm oil-free! Gluten-free option. Easy Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies that are perfect for the holidays, bake sales and gifting. Perfectly Crisp and Soft. Vegan Nut-free Soy-free Palm oil-free Recipe.
Because one can never have enough Chocolate Chip Cookies and these are the best! Classic Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies to wow everyone over. No palm oil or vegan butter or margarine in these.
These are amazing cookies that come out beautifully every time. Slightly crunchy, and soft in the middle. So amazingly good! Bake half a minute less for soft cookies and a minute longer for crunchier. Bake time depends on the oven, size of the cookie etc. These are a holiday treat! Also see video below.
I have tried these with coconut sugar (not more than 1/2 cup). The dough needs less flour to make a soft dough that will spread well. These cookies also benefit from chocolate chunks mixed in with the chips. The gooey big chunks right after baking will live in your dreams for a while. The original recipe for these cookies is by Somer McCowan. Try her aquafaba version here. You can possibly use thick aquafaba (4.5 tbsp) in this recipe as well. Let me know if that works out. I have also made these gluten-free, see the Recipe notes for gluten-free flour and other changes.
When in doubt, bake 2-3 cookies from the dough to see if the dough has a good balance. If they spread too much, then the dough needs a bit more flour. If they come out too fat, they need additional moisture. Sprinkle some non dairy milk and mix in well.
Melting melting gone…. gorgeous vegan chocolate chip cookies
Gluten-free version below
More Cookies from the blog
- Tahini Ginger Cookies
- Cherry Almond Thumbprints
- Coconut Oil Shortbread.
- Almond Butter Snickerdoodles.
- Oatmeal Walnut chocolate Chunk Cookies
- Peanut/Almond butter Pecan Cookies
- Almond Butter Oatmeal Cookies. GF oil-free
- Giant chocolate chip and chunk cookies
- Ginger Molasses crinkle cookies. GF
- Double Chocolate chip cookies.
- Oat Almond Chocolate chip cookies. GF
- Pistachio Apricot Thumbprints.
- Triple Ginger Molasses Soft Cookies
- Tiramisu Cookies. GF
- Shortbread cookies. GF
These cookies are best at any temperature. I prefer them just slightly warm after cooling outside the oven. Please do comment on the post if you make these fabulous cookies.
Video:
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies with Coconut Oil
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup solid not melted organic refined coconut oil, on the scant side
- 1.5 tablespoons ground flax seeds mixed with 4.5 tablespoons water, let sit for 5 mins until smooth and creamy
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup Fine cane sugar or powdered sugar , or blend to make powder
- 1/4 teaspoon heaped fine sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tsp organic vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups flour, , I use unbleached white flour
- 1 cup vegan chocolate chips,
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F / 180ºc. Line a large baking sheet with parchment.
- Add all ingredients coconut oil through vanilla extract to a stand mixer and beat until light and fluffy. Or add a bowl and beat with a hand held beater until fluffy.
- Add 1 cup flour and mix in. Add 1/4 cup flour and mix in. Add flour 1 tbsp at a time and beat in to make a soft cookie dough. You dont want a crumbly dryish mixture, so add just enough to get to somewhere between a stiff batter and soft dough. *
- Add the chocolate chips and fold in well. **
- Measure dough out by heaped tablespoon or a scoop on the lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until just slightly golden.
- Remove from oven and "cookie slam" on a solid heat proof surface for the wrinkled cookie appearance.
- Let cool on baking sheet for 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack and let cool for another 3-5 minutes. The cookies set up while they cool. Try to share with everyone. Store on the counter for the day, and in a closed container for upto 3 days (totally irrelevant information),
Video
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Unbelievable. These are the GOAT of vegan chocolate chip cookies and I’ve tried many over the years!
Awesome!! So happy you like them.
THESE ARE DIVINE!! Even with my sugar subs, the cookies came out perfect!! I trusted the bake time even though they still looked kinda undone, and they set up beautifully!! Richa hits another home run!!! 🙂
Yay! Good to hear.
These are my go-to cookies, and everyone I serve them to is blown away by how amazing they are — even when I cut the coconut oil almost in half. An illustration: I made them for Thanksgiving dessert, but the family sneakily devoured them by Wednesday night, haha. Thank you as always Amazing Richa.
yay! thank you!
I’ve made these several times and just love them. Tonight I’m going to try them with Einkorn flour.
This is yet another of your many great recipes. Whenever I think about baking, I head for your site!
yay!
When I tried this recipe I used 1 and 1/4 cups of flour as is called for. I ended up with chocolate chip puddles.
Shame on me for not watching the video first, to see how thick the batter should’ve been.
I used a measuring cup and not my kitchen scale, but I can’t help but think the 1 and 1/4 cups flour was way off. Once again it’s on me for not weighing ingredients or watching the vid, but the flour needed would’ve been waaay different.
ahhh yes, weights are very important
Finally!! I have been looking for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe my entire vegan life. This is it. The first cookies that didn’t spread all over the pan and they are delicious. Just discovered them yesterday and made them for the second time today. Vegan Richa never disappoints.
Couldn’t agree more. This has been my go-to choc chip recipe for years now, and I’ve had guests who claim not to like sweets fall in love with these. They are the best!! Thank you, Richa.
Thanks so much!
These are my favorite cookies ever! I just found this recipe again today and made them (I made them almost every weekend when I first went vegan in 2016), and they’re just as delicious as I remember!
Hie Richa ,before trying this recipe just wanted to confirm if the chickpea flour refers to gram flour (Besan) or garbanzo flour(white channa atta)?
Chickpea flour is white garbanzo bean flour, if I use besan, recipe will say besan or if either works then recipe will say use chickpea flour or use besan
These were solid classic chocolate chip cookies