Vegan Wholewheat Chocolate Chip "Cakies"

Third post for today!

So I made these from the lovely Vegan Cookies Invade your Cookie Jar recipe book, i love them!

They're wholewheat and heart healthy for the new year, but still yummy and chocolate-y! One thing you'll learn from me in this blog is that i LOVE chocolate. I've had four of these cookies and finished off the leftovers of my vegan chocolate tart from last night >,< oh, and chocolate soya milk and a square or dark chocolate. Wow I consume more than I thought I did.
Anyway, the reason I call these "cakes" is because the wholewheat flour makes it more of a cake consistency instead of a snappy cookie; I prefer these sort of ones because I think they're more substantial.  I also made MASSIVE cookies, so had to cook them for an additional 10 minutes :)

*Makes 13 huuuuge ones, or less depending on how greedy you're feeling ;)

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup caster sugar
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup of sunflower/vegetable/canola oil (any light flavoured oil)
• 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk (yes! I couldn't find any unsweeted almond milk that wasn't long life, but it turns out Waitrose does it!) or any other unsweetend non dairy milk
• 2 tablespoons of arrowroot powder (or cornstarch or tapioca flour)
• 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract (or vanilla bean paste; it is rather expensive but it honestly makes the biggest difference!)
• 2 cups of wholewheat flour (make sure you don't get wholewheat bread flour :))
• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 tsp (i think i used 1/4 though because i really don't like salt, but it's essential still to bring out the flavours)
• 1 cup plain bittersweet chocolate chips

First of all preheat your oven to 175 celcius or 350 farenhit, and line a couple of baking sheets with non stick baking parchment. 

In a bowl, mix the sugars and oil together for about a minute; you want the sugar to dissolve so it turns into sugary oily liquid thing ;)

Then add the milk and arrowroot powder, and beat vigourosly so no clumps of the powder are left - this is good for anger management :D Then mix in the vanilla.

Add half of the flour, bicarb of soda and salt and mix well - it will be turning into a batter at this point. Then add the other half an mix; it'll be quite stodgy but still rather sticky, this is fine! Then fold in the choccy chips.

Then drop tablespoon sized (well i did rather big tablespoons which turn into big cakey cookies which are devine, but you could also do little ones just make sure you adjust the time of baking) dollops onto the parchment, and squish down a little so it forms a rather thick cookie shape.

Put them in the oven for 10 minutes for soft cookies and around 15 for crispier ones (like I said, it'll change by the size of your cookies.) - if you lightly touch it and it falls in, put them back in the oven for another 5-10 minutes, but if it holds it's shape and feels like it's quite strong, they should be done!

Leave them to cool a little on the tray for 5 minutes (they'll also carry on cooking this way, giving it a crispier bottom :) ) and that's it! Enjoy!

I love breaking cookies in half...

Esh

xo