YAY! I admit, I adore chocolate chip cookies. I have been a vegan now for about 6 weeks, but admittedly, have been hanging on to my “dairy” chocolate chip cookies like a safety blanket. No need to that anymore! I finally got over my fear of the exotic and weird (not really) flaxseed ingredient that is often used in vegan baking as an egg substitute. I found some already pre-ground at Trader Joe’s (I have seen it elsewhere too so it’s not hard to find) so that made things easier and less intimidating. On the PPK forum (see link in left sidebar) someone mentioned that Trader Joe’s carries dairy-free chocolate chips, and they do, and they are tasty! These “sfot and chewy chocolate chip cookies” are awesome! The recipe came from Vegan Diner and aren’t y’all lucky that Julie posted a revised recipe on her blog today for the gluten-free version! If you don’t need a gluten-free version, you can prepare the cookies the way I did, just replace the 3/4 cup sorghum/brownrice flour with 1 cup of all-purpose flour and omit the following ingredients: potato starch, tapioca flour, xanthan gum.
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Ha. I did a vegan choc chipper recently too. Must be the season… Yours look delightful. I used buckwheat to see if I could get it in my kids…. and it worked. The magic of a chocolate chip.
mmmmm, buckwheat….. did it lend a nice earthy flavor to the cookie?
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How long did the cookies last in your home? They look delicious!
I try looking for the TJ choc. chips but didn’t find them… didn’t ask though… will do next time. In what area did you find them?
@BoS, Oh I am so belated in writing back to you! The cookies did not last long, maybe a few days as they make exactly 18. (Hubby bought me a really cool 1 TBS cookie scoop to use!) Since this blog post, I’ve made another batch, still awesome and so easy to put together! And hope to have time to make another batch tonight!
I actually had a hard time finding the dairy-free choc chips too as they were not in the baking section. Hubby found them on a shelf above the frozen food coolers — which I think is a weird place to put them. The TJ employees seem friendly, at least at my store, so I’m sure if you asked one of them they’d be happy to help you find them.
Yay Trader Joe’s! We also have these really good things called Chickenless Crispy Tenders. Bake ‘em up and serve them with our Organic Tomato Basil Marinara and some vegan soy mozzarella and you have AWESOME vegan chicken parm!
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