Chocolate Chocolate-chip Cookies (vegan!)

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup unsweetened dutch-processed cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup canola oil
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 4 teaspoons ground flax seeds
• 1/2 cup soymilk
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup semisweet vegan chocolate chips (or non-vegan, if you're not a vegan)
• 3/4 cup walnuts (optional)

Recipe

• 1 preaheat the oven to 350.
• 2 in a large boak, sift together flour, baking cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
• 3 in a separate bowl, mix oil and sugar. add ground flaxseeds, soy milk (i like chocolate soy milk for extra chocolatiness!), and vanilla extracts. mix well.
• 4 fold in the flour mixture in batches until a stiff dough forms. i use my stand mixer, but the original recipe recommends mixing with your hands. do what you like :).
• 5 add chocolate chips and/or walnuts to finished dough.
• 6 roll the cookies into 1" balls and flatten into disks about 1.5" in diameter -- or shape with two spoons, if you don't want to get your hands into it. the oil content makes them pretty easy to shape by hand, though.
• 7 place on parchment-lined cookie sheets about 1" apart -- they don't spread out very much. if you don't like parchment or don't have any on hand, spray with your favorite non-stick spray, or just grease the pan with margarine or (for non-vegans) butter. i just use butter and it comes out fine.
• 8 bake for 10 minutes.
• 9 remove from oven and let cool for about 5 minutes before transferring them to wire racks to cool completely, so that their shape stays nice and circular.
• 10 enjoy, while marveling that the taste is so good, you'd never guess it's vegan!