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For a class party, a vegan friend brought freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. Once only gooey crumbs were left, she told the class they were vegan. People looked shocked to find out that vegan cookies could be so delicious. And, when I asked her for the recipe, I found out they were also super easy to make with "normal" ingredients. You won't have to hunt through specialty stores for some obscure ingredients while your stomach is begging for cookies. So even if you’re baking-challenged, and have only a few ingredients in your cupboard, you can easily have a bellyful of cookies in about half an hour. Or, because this recipe does not use eggs, you could safely gobble up a bellyful of cookie dough in even less time!
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Serves: Approximately 2 dozen (26 teaspoon scoops of dough)
Ingredients:
2 cups unbleached flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
3/4 cup of vegan chocolate chips
3/4 cup raw sugar
1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil or vegan margarine (depending on your preference)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup soy milk, vanilla soy milk, almond milk, or water (depending on your preference)
-About the chocolate chips: I used semi-sweet chocolate chips. My vegan friend has told me that many semi-sweet and dark chocolate chips in baking aisles are vegan. Just make sure to check the ingredients because many popular baking chips do have milk fat. You could also use carob chips, but I know fewer people prefer those to semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips. You could also skip the chips. I actually prefer chip-less cookies, and know that these cookies are also delicious without the chips!
Cooking Supplies:
large bowl
medium bowl
measuring cup
measuring spoons
whisk or silicon spatula (for mixing)
baking sheets
oven mitt
Bake time: 9-15 minutes; will vary depending on your oven. My oven takes 12 minutes to bake these cookies.
-Why I use a silicon spatula: I use a silicon spatula because it mixes the liquid ingredients and dry ingredients even better than a whisk with this particular recipe. If you only have a whisk, that is fine, but the dough might get caught and you will have to constantly pick it out. If you only have a whisk, I could recommend using your hands.
Read before starting:
-Do not grease the baking sheet. There is enough oil in the batter.
-It is ideal that the ingredients are room temperature for baking, but it's not necessary.
-Do not put the cookie sheets on the stove while the oven is hot. This will cause the sheets to heat, and the cookies will bake unevenly.
-These cookies do not spread much while baking, so feel free to place them close together on the baking sheet.
-Do not leave them in too long. These cookies will come out soft, but they will harden when they cool. Because they come out soft, a friend told me she has accidentally burnt them before.
-Lastly, always remember to have your oven mitt handy.
Ingredients:
2 cups unbleached flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
3/4 cup of vegan chocolate chips
3/4 cup raw sugar
1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil or vegan margarine (depending on your preference)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup soy milk, vanilla soy milk, almond milk, or water (depending on your preference)
-About the chocolate chips: I used semi-sweet chocolate chips. My vegan friend has told me that many semi-sweet and dark chocolate chips in baking aisles are vegan. Just make sure to check the ingredients because many popular baking chips do have milk fat. You could also use carob chips, but I know fewer people prefer those to semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips. You could also skip the chips. I actually prefer chip-less cookies, and know that these cookies are also delicious without the chips!
Cooking Supplies:
large bowl
medium bowl
measuring cup
measuring spoons
whisk or silicon spatula (for mixing)
baking sheets
oven mitt
Bake time: 9-15 minutes; will vary depending on your oven. My oven takes 12 minutes to bake these cookies.
-Why I use a silicon spatula: I use a silicon spatula because it mixes the liquid ingredients and dry ingredients even better than a whisk with this particular recipe. If you only have a whisk, that is fine, but the dough might get caught and you will have to constantly pick it out. If you only have a whisk, I could recommend using your hands.
Read before starting:
-Do not grease the baking sheet. There is enough oil in the batter.
-It is ideal that the ingredients are room temperature for baking, but it's not necessary.
-Do not put the cookie sheets on the stove while the oven is hot. This will cause the sheets to heat, and the cookies will bake unevenly.
-These cookies do not spread much while baking, so feel free to place them close together on the baking sheet.
-Do not leave them in too long. These cookies will come out soft, but they will harden when they cool. Because they come out soft, a friend told me she has accidentally burnt them before.
-Lastly, always remember to have your oven mitt handy.
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They are very addictive and way too easy to make!
~Vegan for 5 months
But vegans take out all animals and animal products including eggs, milk, and butter (all of which are typically used in the making of cookies). Different people sort of bend the rules a bit but that's how it is generally.
a friend of mines mom is vegan, and she has made the best food i have ever eaten anywhere in my life. and she doesnt look sick, she looks stronger than me and im a healthy dude!
but i would need to test the honey substitutes next to the organic honeys to see if i could hang, cant imagine life without honey on breads and biscuits
You know, I am all for live and let live, do what you want if it doesn;t effect me but when it starts crossing the lines of ignoring (or making up) facts, that's when I speak up.
Vegans can and do live pretty healthy lives, I am not debating that, but so do meat eaters (most of the rest of us). Excess of anything is unhealth, moderation in all things is the key.
This agenda of telling everyone how healthy vegans all are is just nonsense. Add to that the complete BS that we are not "made" to eat meat and that animals do fine being "vegans".. I just stop and say .. really? REALLY? This is how you guys justify your choices? By selective facts, misdirection and outright falsehoods?
I hope these cookies are great and I hope all vegans can enjoy them but keep your rhetoric to yourselves. Please?
And by the way the American Diabetes Association says
"Eating right and exercising are the best ways for patients with type 2 diabetes to begin to treat their disease. This study shows that a low-fat vegan diet and a diet based on ADA nutrition recommendations can help people with type 2 diabetes control their blood glucose levels and lower their chances for heart and blood vessel problems. These improvements were greater with the low-fat vegan diet."
http://www.diabetes.org/news-research/research/access-diabetes-research/barnard-vegan-diet.html
But then again they are mainly in the business of misinformation and rhetoric.
I think eating small amounts of meat doesn't have to be an environmental disaster. There are areas of land that don't grow a whole lot easily, other than grazing plants.
The key issue, of course, is that cheese is delicious. I don't eat it every day, but it would be a very sad life, indeed, if I could never have or serve any. It's my 3 year old's favorite food (although he also loves his peas, apples, beans, and spicy lamb curry)
I think it says it all right there, dispensing facts and coming to a conclusion based on ancedotal "evidence" and admittedly not knowing "all the health benefits"
(btw I am happy for your grandmother, thats great news!)
nikolardo, it's great to be a passionate about something near and dear to you, but at least learn all the facts so you don't look like a tool by making statements like that. No offense to you meant, but try to get your information from other sources besides pro-vegan sources (and publicly edited wiki articles).
More importantly...
To assume that quiting meat based products stopped cancer "in it's tracks" is quite ignorant to the actual disease of cancer. Not only that but it is highly irresponsible, maybe a few people with the same issue will stop eating meat, dairy and other foods which in turns starts causing them specific health problems... do you really want to be responsible for that?
I do doubt quite a bit that anyone would get specific health problems when dropping meat or dairy, unless everything else they eat is absolute junk. But, again, I really don't know, so I shouldn't've said it.
but the protein content of meat is just unbeatable, hence our lovely enzymes being able to break down the proteins into much needed amino acids, some of which we can only get enough of via different animal meats.
It is in fact only very recently we are able to live without meat- through our transportation systems crops containing most nutrients can be seen in local supermarkets.
It is relatively easy to be a vegetarian now because of the availability of foodstuffs, you're quite right there. However, saying that it's only recently that people have been able to live without meat is really not right at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_vegetarianism
And I don't like honey because it is bee vomit :D
http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/honey.asp
I still eat honey (and eggs, dairy, and meat), but I can understand why some people would opt not to.
ALSO
Farmers rent portable bee boxes to help increase their yields by getting all possible pollination. So if a group of people believe the practice of beekeeping to be cruel, they would be supporting that practice and benefiting from it not only by eating honey, but also by eating herbs, fruits and vegetables (zucchini) that rely on pollination management, by which I mean placing a number of portable hives in each acre of land. This practice is, for some crops, vital, and practiced by organic and major commercial farmers ailke
If eating honey is cruel, isn't living in a house also cruel? Wild bees aren't down due to beekeeping, it's largely habitat destruction: where they used to live, we live. While a lot of bees are imported, bee keepers are called in by exterminators to remove hives from people's houses and garages. In other words, without a beekeeper to handle them and care for them, humans will kill bees. In an urban environment, the choice is not bee boxes or freedom, it is bee boxes or death. I suppose the idea is that interacting with bees is subjugating them, but we cannot help but interact with bees, and even vegans wouldn't let bees make a hive wherever the bees chose, inside of your car or in a daycare center would not be tolerated, for example.
I'm not one to say what is or isn't cruel; I'm just repeating what I've been told about their reasoning.
On a side note, I make a killer aztec cocoa honey marshmallow from scratch.
Of course lots of the crops we eat are cultivated by poisoning countless insects, but I've never heard the vegan perspective on that, but I'd imagine the total death toll to be much higher, say, per calorie.