Vegan Double Chocolate Chip Cookies- Lower Fat

Submitted by Megannnnnnnn

"modified from ppk"

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 36 cookies

ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup canola oil
• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon stevia
• 1 cup applesauce
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 tablespoon whole flax seed
• 1 teaspoon whole flax seed
• 1⁄2 cup soymilk
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3⁄4 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup chocolate chips

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Grind the flax seeds on high in a blender until they become a powder. Add soymilk and blend for another 30 seconds or so. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl sift together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
4. In a seperate large bowl cream together oil, sugar/stevia, and applesauce. Add the flax seed/soy milk mixture and mix well. Add the vanilla.
5. Fold in the dry ingredients in batches. When it starts to get too stiff to mix with a spatula, use your hands until a nice stiff dough forms. Add the chocolate chips and mix with your hands again.
6. Roll dough into 1 inch balls and flatten into a disc that's about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet about an inch apart.
7. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool for about 5 minutes, then set them on a wire rack to cool completely.
8. Variations:.
9. For chocolate chocolate chip cherry cookies, replace 1 teaspoon of the vanilla with almond extract, and replace 1/2 the chocolate chips with dried cherries.
10. For chocolate nut cookies, replace 1 teaspoon of the vanilla with a nut extract (almond, walnut, what have you) and replace the chocolate chips with 1 1/2 cups chopped nuts (hazelnuts, almonds or walnuts all are good).