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flour pastry flour tapioca flour baking powder salt xanthan gum vegan sugar applesauce coconut oil grapeseed oil vanilla apple cider vinegar walnuts
Viewed: 13 - Published at: 5 years agoIngredients
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup pastry flour
- 3 tablespoons tapioca flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
- 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1 1/2 cups vegan sugar or unbleached organic cane sugar
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 1/2 cup raw organic coconut oil, melted
- 3 tablespoons grapeseed oil
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract or 2 vanilla beans, scraped
- 1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts
Method
- If you've never made vegan cookies, give these a try.
- Some of the ingredients may be unfamiliar, but putting them together is a nobrainer; use the tried-and-true technique of alternating wet and dry in your mixing bowl.
- Tapioca flour helps with the chewy texture, and the xanthan gum replaces gluten as the stabilizer.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line three baking pans with parchment paper and set aside.
- Whisk the flours, baking powder, salt and xanthan gum together in a medium bowl.
- Put the sugar, applesauce, coconut oil, grapeseed oil, vanilla and vinegar in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer on low speed until combined, about 1 minute.
- Add the flour mixture to the bowl with the wet ingredients, alternating with 1/3 cup water, until fully combined.
- Fold in the chopped walnuts.
- Spoon heaping tablespoons (or a small scoop) of the dough onto the baking sheets, 1 inch to 1 1/2 inches apart.
- Bake the cookies in two batches, two sheets at a time, until the cookies are set and slightly browned around the edges, 18 to 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let the cookies cool on the sheets for 2 minutes, and then remove to a rack and cool completely.
- Bake the remaining cookies on the third pan following the above directions.
- Vegan Cinnamon and Pecan Cookies:
- Make the Vegan Vanilla Cookies with Walnuts, adding 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon to the flour mixture, and folding in 1 cup chopped pecans instead of the walnuts.
- Bake as directed.
- Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies:
- Make the Vegan Vanilla Cookies with Walnuts, adding 1/3 cup natural peanut butter to the wet ingredients, and increasing the water to 2/3 cup.
- Substitute in 3/4 cup chopped roasted unsalted peanuts in place of the walnuts in the recipe.
- Vegan Rocky Road Chocolate Whoopie Pie Cookies:
- Make the Vegan Vanilla Cookies with Walnuts.
- Add 3/4 cup vegan chocolate chips and replace walnuts with 3/4 cup chopped raw almonds.
- When cool place 3 mini vegan marshmallows on each of 18 overturned cookies, and broil 1 minute.
- Top each with another cookie to make sandwiches.
