Simple & Seriously Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (Healthier)
These cookies are perfect with your afternoon cuppa!
Equipment
- 2 baking trays
- Bowl
- Wire wrack
- Tin foil or parchment paper
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar or coconut sugar
- 1 ⅔ cup wholegrain spelt flour or spelt, white or brown flour
- ½ cup vegan butter
- 2 tbsp plant milk any kind
- 1 tsp vanilla paste or essence optional
- 1 tbsp corn starch
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 160 g of dark chocolate 85% cacao solids is good. You can use chocolate chips OR you can easily chop your chocolate up using a chopping board and a large chopping knife (be careful)
Instructions
- Set your oven to 180C/ 350F or gas mark 4
- In two large baking pans (bake 2 batches separately) line with tin foil or parchment paper.
- In a medium sized bowl whisk you butter and sugar until fluffy. Ideally, use an electric whisk for this as you will get a fluffier result. If you have no electric whisk, then you can do this by hand with a metal fork (bear in mind this will take about 10 minutes with a fork).
- Once you have your fluffy mix, add your vanilla if using, along with your plant milk and whisk again to incorporate.
- Now add your sifted spelt flour and baking powder along with your cornflour and combine.
- Gently stir in your chocolate.
- Now divide your dough into 16 portions. Roll each portion into a ball. Place onto your baking sheets and flatten slightly. You will need to space these apart with at least an inch between each one as they will flatten much more during the baking process. Ideally, you should make these cookies in 2 batches of 8. This so that there is nothing else taking the heat away. Roll your first batch of 8 cookie dough balls first, then add to the oven to bake whilst getting on with rolling your second batch.
- Bake for 11 to 15 minutes. We think 12 minutes is the optimal time for chewy cookies, but go for a bit longer if your prefer a crunchy cookie. Both taste fantastic, but chewy has the edge. Be very careful not to overbake these! They never look firm when you first take them out the oven; they will firm up as they cool.
- Once out the oven. leave to cool and firm up for 10-15 minutes. After this, place on a wire wrack for rest of cooling time then store in an air-tight container. They are best served straight from the fridge as this makes them chewier.