What are your favorite vegan cookie recipes?
By Leighann on Jul 12, 2009 in Vegetarian Cooking, What's Cooking?
I am going to a political rally Friday and would like to bake cookies for the fellow supporters I meet there. I made up a wonderful vegan brownie recipe that I use all the time, but haven't had the time to come up with my own cookie recipe yet. I am not a vegan, but I do like to bake vegan and allergy-free (no nuts) treats to take to events. People seem to appreciate it. Thanks in advance for the recipes!
Thanks to Sage from Cedar Springs for this delicious RAW vegan cookie recipe. It does contain nuts, but you could substitute sunflower or sesame seed paste/pate for the nut butter/ground nuts:
Armadillo Balls
1 cup dried fruit (dates, raisin, figs, apricots)
1/2 cup nut butter (almond, sesame, cashew, etc – or use tahini, ground sunflower seeds)
1/4 cup coconut oil
1/4 cup coconut flakes
3 Tbs. Cacao Powder (this is a raw recipe, so they use raw cacao, but you could also use regular cocoa)
3 Tbs. Nutitional Yeast
3 Tbs. Agave nectar, or honey
1/2 cup sesame seeds (to roll balls in) or coconut flakes
Place all your ingredients into a food processor and mix until well blended.
Place a blob of the batter onto a plate with sesame seeds (or coconut flakes) and roll into a ball
Put in a glass container and store in refrigerator.
*** Try using just ground nuts instead of making nut butter – and increase the coconut flakes to at least 1 cup. They will be more manageable to roll
These little guys are delicious! Kids and adults alike will love them. And they’re packed with nutrients.
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Cranberry-Oatmeal cookies are delicious and have whole grains, too.
3/4 cup earth balance or other margerine
1/3 cup raw sugar
3/4 cup raw brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup soy milk
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp ginger powder
1/4 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
3 cups rolled oatmeal
1 cup dried cranberries
Make the way you do with typical cookies- mix the wet ingredients, add the dry ingredients, and stir in the oats and cranberries last. Bake at 350 for 10-15 minutes. All your friends will love them.
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hemlockknot
| Mar 4, 2009 | Reply
I've tried a LOT of vegan cookie recipes over the years, and this one is my favorite:
Veganized Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
http://www.compassionatecooks.com/r/cookies.htm
(There is one typo.. 21/4cups should be 2 and 1/4 cups)
I use the Whole Foods brand of vegan chocolate chips. Ghirardelli is another good brand — the semi-sweet ones are vegan.
Happy baking! It's nice of you to make treats for the protestors
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Orange
| Mar 4, 2009 | Reply
The Sparkled Ginger Cookies from Vegan with a Vengeance are easy and delicious. I made a batch last night.
4 Tbsp turbinado or demerrara sugar (regular sugar will work, but coarse is best)
2 c all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 c canola oil
1/4 c molasses
1/4 c soymilk
1 c sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease two cookie sheets. Place turbinado sugar in a small bowl.
Sift together flour, baking soda, salt and spices. In a separate large mixing bowl, mix together oil, molasses, soy milk, sugar and vanilla. Pour the dry ingredients into the wet and combine well. Roll into 1 inch balls and press into the turbinado sugar. Place on cookie sheet and flatten into 1 1/2 inch disks, 1 inch apart. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, let cool on cookie sheets for 3 to 5 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack.
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mockingbird
| Mar 4, 2009 | Reply
I want to make this recipe but I don’t have coconut oil, can I use something else?
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fast cooker
| Jul 12, 2009 | Reply
Fast cooker–I haven’t experimented with this recipe much, but I think coconut oil would be the best to use…coconut oil has a certain texture – it’s solid to 76 F. Technically, you could use any other solid fat – butter, margarine, vegetable shortening, etc. But you’re going to see a big difference in flavor for each of those. And of course, if the vegan part is important to you, butter would not be an option. If you use a liquid oil like canola, your armadillo balls are going to be soft, even if you put them in the fridge (with coconut oil, they will get firmer. In hot weather it’s recommended to chill these so they don’t go all gooey).
Coconut oil, especially virgin coconut oil, is said to be really healthy for you, too, even though it’s a saturated fat. It has nutrients that other fats don’t and is supposed to help with cholesterol and weight loss. I’m not sure of all the hows and whys, but that’s what I’ve been told. I’ll write an article about that someday when I’ve been able to do a bit of reading.
Where to find coconut oil:
It shouldn’t be hard to find coconut oil, I’ve even seen it at Wal-mart in rural Arkansas.
But if you live in the US, any Asian or Latino store should have it, also Indian. Coconut oil is delicious in a lot of recipes, use it where you would butter or olive oil for cooking and baking. It’s an excellent frying/deep frying oil.
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| Jul 13, 2009 | Reply