Date Sweetened Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies [GF, Oil-Free]
You would NEVER guess these are healthy! The most delicious, thick & chewy date sweetened vegan chocolate chip cookies that are also oil-free & gluten-free!
Equipment
- You will need: a food processor, parchment paper, ice cream scooper and a cookie sheet
Ingredients
- 1 cup pitted Deglet Noor dates, tightly packed
- 1/3 cup peanut butter needs to be smooth, creamy and somewhat drippy
- 1 & 1/2 cups blanched almond flour
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 & 1/2 tbsp plant-based milk
- 1/2 tsp mineral salt plus a couple extra pinches
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- about 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees and lining a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Add all of the ingredients, minus the chocolate chips, to a food processor.
- Pulse on high for a couple minutes. You may need to stop every so often to scrape the dough off the sides of the food processor and down toward to the blade. Keep pulsing until dates are very finely chopped, the ingredients are well mixed together and the dough is smooth. Note: depending on your equipment, you may need to pulse longer and therefore the dough may warm up. Make sure to check for this and if the dough is warm, let it cool down before adding the chocolate chips!
- Remove the blade and stir in the chocolate chips.
- Use an ice cream scoop for each cookie, leveling off the dough. Place each scoop on the lined cookie sheet. You should have 7 large cookies.
- Using your fingers, gently press down and flatten cookies a little more than halfway.
- Bake for about 10-11 minutes. I take mine out right at 10 & 1/2 minutes. Since these don't bake like typical cookies, the indicator that they are done is how brown they are on the bottom. You want to look for a nice medium brown on the bottom of the cookies.
- These will be extremely soft when they come out of the oven. Let them cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack for another 5 minutes, then enjoy! I highly recommend sprinkling a tiny bit of salt on top of the cookies. It just makes them!
- Store leftovers covered on the counter. These taste even more delicious the next day!
Notes
- See post for substitution information!