Description
If you’re looking for richly flavored, soft vegan chocolate chip cookies, you must try these BEST Vegan Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies, which are a bit lighter in refined ingredients than most cookie recipes, yet just as delicious.
Ingredients
- ½ cup aquafaba (bean liquid left from canned beans like chickpeas, learn more about aquafaba here)
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/3 cup organic white sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- ¾ cup vegan butter sticks, at room temperature, cut into cubes (i.e., Myiokos Creamery, Earth Balance, Violife)
- 1 cup white whole wheat flour
- 1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt (optional)
- 1 ½ cups vegan chocolate chips
- ½ cup coarsely chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Place aquafaba (the liquid left in canned beans, such as chickpeas) into a large mixing bowl. Add brown sugar and white sugar. Use an electric mixer to whip the aquafaba mixture until peaks form. A standing electric mixer works well for this recipe, too.
- Preheat oven to 375 F.
- Add vanilla and cubed vegan butter sticks to the mixing bowl and gently blend on low-medium speed for 2 minutes, until folded in.
- Add white whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, baking powder, and salt, and mix on low-medium speed just for 1-2 minutes, until mixture is combined. Do not overmix to avoid toughening the batter.
- Add chocolate chips and walnuts and gently fold into the cookie dough with a spatula or wooden spoon.
- Using a spoon or a cookie dough scoop, portion up about 2 tablespoons cookie dough into a ball and place on baking sheets that have been sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Flatten slightly with your hand to create a high cookie (about 1 to 1 ½ inches high).
- Place sheets in oven and bake for 10-14 minutes, until lightly golden and firm without being dry.
- Remove from oven. Makes 24 cookies (1 cookie per serving). Serve immediately, or cool, place in an airtight container and store in freezer for up to three months.
Notes
Make this recipe gluten-free by swapping the white whole wheat and all purpose flour for gluten-free flour blend.
The dish that the cookies are served on is called Flow Blue, which refers to antique china in which the cobalt blue color has “flowed” into the white of the porcelain over time. I have several pieces of this in my collection.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 14 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 191
- Sugar: 12 g
- Sodium: 62 mg
- Fat: 10 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Carbohydrates: 22 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 6 g