I love love love these cookies. They were some of the first I ever made as a vegan, and I do remember it like it was yesterday. It was me and my bf, and we had no flax, and thought that baking soda were baking powder (we got lost in translation on that one) but they still turned out great. Since then, I’ve made them with all the right ingredients and they were good then, too! Hehe. I usually add some kind of nut in addition the chocolate chips, walnut, almond or hazelnut are good!

These are amazing cookies- BUT i have been reducing the amount of sugar to almost half and adding cherries and walnuts!!! In turn, each cookie then becomes a meal! Ha- great vegan recipe!!!!

Just made these cookies. They turn out really well. I did not have flax seed on hand and left that out. I also added 7 oz. of shredded coconut (which I like to add to most cookie recipes). The are like a great chocolate macaroon. I think that some nuts would be nice too. Great recipe and will use it again. Thanks

your food has helped me go vegan without looking back, but your desserts are seriously making me fat ahaa I love them all.

I just made these, they turned out great! I don’t think I can eat more than two though for I can feel diabetes coming at me like a freight train. Totally bringing these for the family at Christmas!

these cookies taste fantastic! quick question: i cooked one batch on the middle rack in the oven and another batch cooked on the rack underneath. the batch on the middle rack turned out beautiful with a nice cracked top. however, the batch that cooked underneath the middle rack did not have the nice cracked top. how can i avoid this from happening (other than cooking them in 2 separate sessions)? thanks in advance.

if you rotate the cookie sheets half way through baking them (example: rotate 5 minutes after putting them in the oven, if you plan on baking them for a total of ten minutes). So, as a further illustration, put cookie sheet 1 in middle rack and cookie sheet 2 on bottom rack. half way through, mix it up, put cookie sheet 1 on bottom rack and cookie sheet 2 in middle.

ps, great cookies! id use a few less chocolate chips though..too many chocolate chips can ruin the tender ratio of cookie and chip.

these are the best. I brought these to a potluck once and they were gone in under an hour, it would have taken less time but I had covered layers with paper towels and people thought they were all out.

I just made these tonight from the recipe in Veganomicom. I halved the recipe to make half the amount and was careful not to make errors. I do that nowadays in case stuff doesn’t come out good. Anyway, I don’t know why but the dough was too loose and I wound up adding a couple of teaspoons of flour to thicken it up. Did anyone else have that problem? I still was not able to roll the dough in balls, but I plopped heaping tablespoons onto the cookie sheet. I think they came out okay … they started to quickly stick to the sheet when I took them out of the oven, and I had to spatula them off quickly before they seemed like they were actually going to bond. Dumb dumb me, now I finally realize what parchment paper is for. Must get some.

Like Rookie (above) i find the dough comes out a bit thin if i follow the recipe strictly. I’m not punk so i make it in a blender. I put in the soya milk last, adding just enough to get the right texture.

I also use egg replacer powder in place of the flax seed powder – this works very well.

I also usually use margarine/shortening instead of oil, this makes them chewier IMHO…

how many calories are in one of these delicious cookies?

“your food has helped me go vegan without looking back, but your desserts are seriously making me fat ahaa I love them all.”

Me too :) When I was considering veganism I was reading a hilarious comment on one of your cookbooks on amazon, with the woman saying she couldn’t decide whether to hug you or throw her bathroom scale at you.

I thought, “Oh, it won’t be like that. I have too much willpower.”

The former arrogance has been very, very diminished.
*throws bathroom scale*

If anybody tells you that they have a better vegan chocolate cookie recipe, THEY. ARE. LYING. I have a fundraising project selling homemade cookies and orders of these cookies alone have probably paid school fees for 10 South African children. I recommend using hazelnut or walnut oil instead of canola for more rich flavor depth. I also use warm water instead of soymilk, which I can’t stand the taste of, and it works like a charm. Nobody will guess that they’re vegan – I’ve been making them for three years and giving them out and nobody has. Sometimes I make this recipe just to eat the dough raw. And that’s the magic of vegan baking.

These are the best cookies I’ve ever had. Sometimes I add dried cherries instead of chips. I always use whole wheat pasty flour instead of white and sucanat in place of the sugar sometimes. I’ve always tried it with whole grain barley flour with good results! I love all of your cookbooks! Thank you!

Loved these! I made them tonight with my Cub Scouts and they got rave reviews. I made some substitutions for what I had on hand. I used white whole wheat flour, roasted walnut oil, and coconut milk. I will make these again and again.

I just want to thank you for making vegan cookie recipes without crazy substitutes for eggs and dairy. I live in the Netherlands and just don’t have access to a lot of the alternative ingredients you can find in the States. The only substitution I made was to change half the sugar to agave syrup and cut the remaining by 1/4 cup. And I ground the walnuts so my 16-month old could eat one, too (she liked it so much she demanded a second). Oh and I used hagelslag (basically dark chocolate sprinkles) because I still don’t know where to get choc chips here. Guess that makes two subs. These were a huge hit and no one would ever guess they were egg and dairy-free. Yuuum.

I just made these cookies and think they are great! However I had to use safflower oil since I was out of canola oil. Would this be the reason they aren’t as moist as I would like? If not, how do I make these cookies more moist?

These cookies are amazing! I substituted the canola oil for vegan butter and instead of 2 cups white sugar, I did 1 cup white and 1 cup brown. They turned out so chewy and almost brownie like. I’m in love! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Mine weren’t chewy =( which is what I wanted. Any clues or tips???

Hey Isa!!!

If Im using already ground flax seed, how much would I use?

I didn’t have flax seed, but these cookies were still amazing. They were crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, full of chocolatey, fudgy goodness. I had more than one person tell me they were the “best cookies ever” or their “favorite thing” I had ever made (and I bake a lot!). I will definitely be making these again :)

I made these with egg substitution powder instead of flax seeds, but they still turned out perfect! crispy on the outside and chewy in the middle. these are one of the first vegan cookie recipes i’ve tried, and definitely the first one to turn out just how i wanted :) these vegan cookies can take over the world.

These are so delicious! The first time I didn’t use any cocoa powder so they were more like the traditional chocolate chip cookies. The second time I did use the cocoa but both times I used whole wheat flour, 1 c. ight brown sugar and 1 c. dark brown sugar and only 1/2 c. of oil. I think the brown sugar makes them even more chewy. Great recipe, I’ve used a lot of your recipes after this one worked so well.

I’m allergic to vegetable oil and so I make mine with a very light olive oil, and it works wonderfully. (I also add almond extract, dried cherries and slivered almonds or walnuts and they’re so delish.) I eat these waaaaay too often and am now wearing sweat pants almost exclusively.

These were my first vegan cookies and they were better then some of the best non-vegan cookies I’ve had! I substituted 1cup of brown sugar for the white sugar, then added a tsp. of almond extract, rolled the cookie dough in powdered sugar, then finally sprinkled coarse sea salt on the top of the cookies. My very non-vegan family all raved about them, even my husband who usually does not care for cookies very much. Thank you for an awesome recipe that I can feel good about!

These are delicious! I added in 1/2 cup sweetened coconut and they are amazing. :)

Yum! These are moist and chewy. I love this recipe and will make this again!

Made these for myself because i have to eat dairy free. They were WONDERFUL and my husband and 4 children enjoyed helping me gobble them up!

Do you know how to make these gluten-free?

Just made these and wow! I’ve ended up with 50 cookies though and 2 of my housemates are on no-carb diets so that’s an awful lot of cookies for me to eat!! Not that I’m complaining too much since they taste absolutely fantastic. :)

I’ve now made these many times, and they are one of my favorite cookie recipes. I call them PMS cookies (so chocolatey!). They ROCK. Next time I make them, I’m going to add some mint extract. YUMMMMM.

I don’t even LIKE cookies, so I bake them for my friends. Screw my friends, these are all for me! (I love how the recipe is mostly nicely divisible by 3rds to get a dozen rather than 3 dozen, I don’t know what the hell is different about my cookies/friends from yours but I can’t shift 3 dozen of anything; when I offer cookies around a room people are less than enthusiastic, I guess that’s why England isn’t ahead of America for the coveted obesity prize…)

Holy smokes, these turned out amazing! I didn’t have flax seed so I just added the almond milk straight into the sugar mixture with whole hemp hearts in the same measure as the intended flax seeds. The batter was a little loose but still easy to form into balls. I would also recommend, as someone already has, maybe cutting the amount of chips in half, as the ratio of chip to batter was almost at the tipping point. I’m excited to start trying different variations with dried fruit and coconut!

Would love to make these if I could know of a substitute for soy milk as am allergic to it!!

pardon me for I am new to veganism… but don’t chocolate chips have dairy in them? I am also allergic to soy. sucks being vegan and allergic to soy, eh?

Rachael-
Most dark chocolate chips do not contain dairy, but read the label to be sure. I find that a lot of choco chips have soy lecithin, but you can find them without it. You could replace the milk with warm water, as one previous comment recommends, or try rice milk or So Delicious coconut milk (in a carton in the fridge). Hope this helps!

I cannot believe how good these are!! Thank you so much!! I made them for my high school seniors…they’re always in awe of how good vegan food can be. Some of them have even requested recipes! I just send them the link to your site. You are amazing!!! :)

I substited brewed coffee because I didn’t have any soymilk in hopes that I would have delicious mocha cookies. Unfortunately the dough was way too thin. But, in the past (when I followed the recipe) these cookies have turned out great.

I used to love these cookie, sooo good! However my oven at my new house is horrible and ruins everything. I have made these twice since getting the oven and both times they cam eout all cracked and not as nice. DAMN YOU OVEN! I am jealous of the people that still get to enjoy these.

These are the best vegan cookies EVER!!! I am a music teacher and bake vegan treats for our recitals. Well, I just made a batch of these for tomorrow’s recital and they are amazing!!!! Hoping I cam refrain from eating all of them before getting to the studio!

OMG!!!! these are a chocolate vegan lovers dream, your recipes are amazing. Thank you for all that you do.

Haha I was reading the ingredients and thought “All purp flour?? WHERE THE HELL AM I GOING TO FIND PURPLE FLOUR??” D’oh…

i used only .25 cup vegan margarine and subbed .50 cup applesauce, and cut sugar to .75 cups of white and .75 cups brown-organic of course. Still amazing and delicious, even though a bit sticky

I made these today and substituted orange extract in place of the vanilla. it turned out really well :) i will say that mine were turning out a little too thin/crunchy/chewy at 10 minutes, so i reduced to 8 minutes and they were much softer. definitely a keeper! thanks isa! <3

I tried this out today and I’m so happy with the result! The dough seemed very soft and I kept adding flour until it seemed more dough-like (about 1/4c). Although I halved the recipe I ended up with 38 cookies. I think i rolled them too small. i used less oil and sugar as well as wholemeal flour. My first time making chewy chocolate cookies! Thank you for this recipe!

i made these for a potluck once and this guy came up to me and was just like ‘thank you so much, i’ve never had a good vegan cookie before, these are amazing…’ etc. its amazing what some simple ingredients can do! :) thanks for the great recipe i have made it many times and its aalways a crowd pleaser ;) everyone just be careful– DO NOT OVERBAKE!!! Follow the damn instructions!

This is my favorite cookie recipe of all time. I’ve substituted whole wheat pastry flour for the white, as well as barley flour. Both worked out great, but I stick to the whole wheat every time I bake ‘em. And they’re great with dehydrated cherries, too.

These are by far the most glorious cookies I have ever made/tasted …vegan or non vegan! My measurements may have been a little off as I’m in the EU and don’t follow cup measurements but they turned out just as described … deliciously moist and chewy with a crispy outside :) I added some chopped hazelnuts and hazelnut essence along with dark choc chips. I also used white spelt flour as I have a wheat intolerance.Will be making these time and time again!

Do not overbake, do not overbake, do not overbake! I accidentally did that on one batch and it broke my heart. They are so perfect when soft and chewy.

i switched earth balance for the oil and chia for the flax. also used a mivture of whole what pastry flour and coconut clout, stirred in some coconut shavings, and used a little extra cocoa. decadent and, with the use of coconut sugar, not bad for you at all. i ate ten and virtually sledgehammered my sugar-chocolate craving away!

these are so good! best cookies i’ve had! chewy yum

I tried this yesterday with some alternations. instead of wheat flour, i used a mix of rice flour and gluten free flour and I was unable to grind flax in my blender so I used an apple to try bind the ingredients. I was unable to make a dough to make cookies so I put the mixture in two cake tins and made the most light but gooey brownies-oh my word! My partner shuns my vegan cooking but even he could not denythe yumminess of this recipe. The rice flour and the skins of the apples gave some texture otherwise they would have simply just melted in the mouth. They are very chocolatey and my favourite vegan treat so far. Thanks guys, be using this again!

Sounds good :) Would use raw cacao – with the nutrients still in it, instead of—3/4 cup dutch processed cocoa powder, when we make these.

THESE COOKIES ARE AMAZING!!! I replaced the sugar with agave and dates blended with the flaxseed and milk and they came out fantastic kudos!
x Renée