Best Vegan Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
By michelle | February 26, 2010
Now that I’ve been doing some vegan baking, I am learning that one of the most important parts of baking this way is what you use to bind the cookies. I’ve previously posted my Super-Substituted Banana Bread and A List of Cooking & Baking Substitutes, and here is a fantastic recipe for oatmeal cookies made with several substitutes. (I am going to try to make peanut butter ones soon, too…)
Ingredients
- 1 cup of regular organic sugar
- 1/2 of a cup of turbinado sugar
- slightly less than 1/3 of a cup of oil
- 3 Tbsp of water
- 1 1/2 teaspoons of good vanilla extract
- 1 mashed banana
- 1/4 cup organic applesauce
- 1 1/2 tsp of cinnamon
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 1/2 cups of flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1/2 of a teaspoon of salt
- 2 cups of oats
- 2.5 ounces of baking chocolate, crushed/chopped (I use Green and Black’s Organic Baking Chocolate)
Directions:
- Mix the sugars, oil, and water. Add the vanilla, banana, and applesauce.
- Then mix together the cinnamon, nutmeg, flour, baking soda, and salt.
- Combine the wet and dry ingredients.
- Stir in the oats. If it is too thin, let stand a bit so the oats can absorb the excess liquid. Or if it is too dry, at a little bit more water.
- Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls on to greased cookie shhets
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 13 minutes. Let them sit a bit before you take them off the cookie sheet.
























5 Comments
Molly Sabourin on February 26, 2010 at 12:30 pm.
Wow, Michelle! Those look and sound fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe. I think my family is getting burnt out on that one lenten chocolate cake I make again and again…and again. : )
michelle on February 26, 2010 at 3:13 pm.
Molly, I think we all make some kind of Lenten Chocolate cake
That used to be my Lenten dessert staple, but I am trying to branch out!
kristina on February 26, 2010 at 4:52 pm.
These sound delicious – thanks for sharing them.
Sarah in Indiana on March 6, 2010 at 3:06 pm.
These look yummy! Oatmeal Chocolate chip are my favorite kind of cookie, so I’ll have to try these. I’ve just recently started reading your blog. I’m especially appreciating your environmental perspective.
mary@evlogia on March 14, 2010 at 4:23 pm.
My children thank you. These are wonderful. We’re going to try the other recipe next weekend for my Name Day.