Healthier Easter Chocolate Vegan Cookies
These Healthier Easter Chocolate Vegan Cookies are seriously amazing. My boyfriend literally said these are the most delicious cookies he’s ever had. I mean if that’s not a good review I don’t know what is! These are seriously delicious because these aren’t just any ordinary chocolate chip cookie. These vegan cookies are made without butter and with healthier flour. Almond butter and almond flour is used to make a large part of the base of these cookies. That’s why I call these healthier cookies! They pack a hefty protein punch and will leave you more satisfied than if you eat a regular chocolate chip cookie, but absolutely NO flavour or texture is sacrificed. These cookies taste like any indulgent chocolate chip cookie but with added health benefits. I might dare say that these are more delicious as well!!
A beautiful roasted almond flavour is present in these Healthier Easter Chocolate Vegan Cookies which goes amazingly with all the other flavours in this cookie. The roasted almond flavour comes from the almond butter used in this recipe. I have a recipe for home made almond butter on my blog, you can click HERE if you’d like to make your own for these delicious cookies! Ohh these delicious cookies. Did I mention that they have the perfect crunch around the edges with a super soft, gooey and moist centre?? Well they certainly do! So give these amazing cookies a chance!
These cute cookies came about because I was gifted the easter chocolate used for this recipe! You can say they inspired me. 🙂 For the festive easter chocolate in this recipe, you can use whichever vegan variety is your favourite, or non vegan works too of course. If you’re not into the whole easter candy thing that’s fine, just choose any type of vegan chocolate to use instead and these Healthier Easter Chocolate Vegan Cookies will be just as amazing!
These Healthier Easter Chocolate Vegan Cookies are also incredibly quick and easy to make, so little effort is required for amazing results. These cookies freeze really well so I like freezing cookie dough balls and then baking them whenever the craving hits! So enjoy this recipe for perfectly chewy cookies with a crunch, and let me know what you think. 🙂
Healthier Easter Chocolate Vegan Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup almond flour
- ¾ cup all purpose flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- ⅔ tsp salt
- ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup natural almond butter *
- 1 tbsp dark syrup
- 5 tbsp water **
- 2.5 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup 150g vegan easter chocolate chopped into chunks
- sea salt for sprinkling on the cookies once they're baked
Instructions
- First whisk together the flours, salt, baking soda and baking powder together in a bowl. Set aside.
- Whisk the sugars, almond butter and dark syrup together in a large mixing bowl until the mixture becomes thick and starts to properly stick together. Then mix in the vanilla and the water.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, stirring carefully, folding the dough together. Fold in the chocolate chunks when the ingredients are almost fully combined. Then fold in the chocolate chunks.
- Chill the cookie dough in the fridge for 35-40 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 170°C.
- Prepare 2-3 baking sheets with parchment paper. Scoop out the cookie dough with an ice cream scooper to make round dough balls. I made 20 cookies with this dough, about 6-8 cookies per sheet depending on the size you use. I like putting little chocolate chunks/eggs on top of the dough balls so that there are always lots of chocolatey pools on top of the cookies or pretty pieces of chocolate. :))
- Bake the cookies one tray at a time, and bake for about 10 minutes. Remove the cookies when the edges have become a nice light golden brown colour. Let the cookies rest on the baking sheet a few minutes before transfering them to a cooling rack to cool completely. This is when I sprinkled them with salt, at the time when the salt flakes stick to the cookies but not too soon that they just melt into the cookie.
- These cookies are soo delicious and of course best served fresh! Store in an airtight container at room temperature. But honestly I think they're still delicious a couple days later or even from the freezer and microwaved for a few seconds before enjoying! Yum! I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do!