Christmas is just around the corner and it is time to get a little festive in the kitchen! 🎄Surely, these cookies can be made during any season or celebration but I see them as a great way to add something sweet to your holiday season, treat others or simply enjoy them yourself 🧡
These cookies turned out to be very similar to store-bought choc-chip cookies but they also turned out better because they are homemade. Everything homemade has it's charm and is always more special than bought food. ✨
I brought these cookies to my friend's house and she loved them. I think this recipe is one of those, that almost all people gonna enjoy. Who doesn't like chop-chip cookies??
I adapted this recipe from few other recipes on the internet and although all of them used butter in their recipes, I swapped it with vegan margarine and it turned out just fine. Maybe the butter would let them to melt into more flat cookies, but I simply flattened them with a spoon after removing them from the oven.
However, if you have access to vegan butter, that might be a better option (you can use the same amount that I specified in the recipe for the margarine).
I actually always swap butter with margarine simply because, again, the vegan butter is very expensive in my country! And the margarine still always fits the recipes 😁
The best thing is that these cookies are easy to make! I would definitely pack them as a gift for Christmas or bring them with me to my family's Christmas dinner. Of course, I would also definitely eat them by myself, wrapped in a blanket and with hot tea in one hand, watching some "Home Alone" movies 😂 Can't wait to do that, but first let's make the cookies!
You will need:
For 9-10 cookies
- 120 g. wheat flour
- 0.5 teaspoon of baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon of salt
- 50 g. white sugar
- 60 gr. dark chocolate chips (if you don't have them, you can simply chop some dark chocolate into small bits)
- 2 tablespoons of plant-based milk (unsweetened almond milk is used in the recipe)
- 2 tablespoons of melted plant-based butter/margarine (50 g.) (I used margarine)
- A couple drops of vanilla aroma (optional)
Preparation
Pour the flour through a sieve/strainer into a bigger container. This helps to remove any lumps from the flour.
Add baking powder, salt, sugar, chocolate discs/chips to the bowl with flour.
Mix everything together.
Pour melted butter/margarine (it is important that it would be cooled down otherwise it will melt all of the chocolate chips!), milk and a few drops of vanilla aroma into the flour mixture.
Mix everything with a spoon, and when the mixture begins to form into a dough, knead with your hands until there is no flour left.
Form a ball from the dough, wrap it in plastic wrap (optional, you can simply put it in a plate/bowl) and keep it in the freezer for 30-40 minutes.
Before removing the dough from the freezer, heat the oven to 160 degrees.
After taking out the dough, scoop out about a spoonful of the dough and form balls in your hands.
Place the cookies in the baking tray - about 4-5 cm apart from one another.
Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes.
If the cookies remain quite round and do not flatten, immediately after removing them from the oven, carefully press them with a spoon so that they are more like the shape of cookies.
Leave the cookies to cool in the baking tray for 10-15 minutes. And then transfer to a plate and let cool completely to harden further.
And, as mentioned in the beginning of this post - enjoy them by yourself with some hot tea or cocoa, or share them with your loved ones - I'm sure they would highly appreciate that 🧡
The preparation process was shot with SonyA7III, lens 50mm/f1.8. The final product was shot with the same camera, lens 100mm/f2.8.
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