Recipe From a Friend: Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
A friend from college, Lauren, left me a message on Facebook this week saying that she had just baked the most delicious vegan cookies to take into work on her birthday and wanted to share the recipe with me and the readers of Living Without Meat. So, thanks to Lauren, here’s a reader-approved all-vegan recipe for peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.
Lauren’s Birthday Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients (obviously, use the vegan versions where needed):
* 1 cup margarine
* 1/2 cup sugar
* 1/2 cup brown sugar
* 1/4 cup soft (silken) tofu
* 1/2 tsp vanilla
* 1 1/2 cups flour
* 3/4 tsp baking soda
* 1/4 tsp salt
* 1/2 cup peanut butter
* 1 cup chocolate chips
Preparation:
1. Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the margarine, sugar, and brown sugar.
3. Add the tofu and vanilla and whisk until smooth and creamy.
4. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. Add to the margarine mixture and combine well.
5. Add the peanut butter and mix well, then fold in the chocolate chips.
6. Roll the dough into 1 inch balls and place on a baking sheet. Bake for 5 to 8 minutes, until cookies are golden brown.
7. Eat, enjoy, and share with all of your non-vegans friends, proving to them that vegan cookies can be delicious!
Thanks, Lauren - and happy vegan birthday! Need more ideas for what to whip up for a vegan birthday celebration? Check out my previous post birthday baking compilation post, Happy Vegan Birthday, Natalie Portman and Ingrid Newkirk.
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July 16th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Your cookie recipe has white sugar,flour,and margarine;all are detremental to any body.Explain how a vegan can be healthy with this as an example of your approach to health?
July 16th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Veganism tends to be healthy, but does not have to be. The only stipulation of a vegan diet is that it doesn’t have animal products. I don’t know about you, but as a vegan I still enjoy chocolate, baked goods, and the occasional junk food - and I am very healthy. Veganism doesn’t have to mean eating only spinach and tofu!