Wonderful Vegan Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are brownie-like and chewy. Be careful not to overbake them, they may seem like they aren't done after 10 minutes but they are!

You’ll Need:

• 3⁄4 cup canola oil
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 tablespoon flax seed, plus
• 1 teaspoon flax seed
• 1⁄2 cup soymilk
• 2 cups flour
• 3⁄4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄2 cups semisweet vegan chocolate chips (obviously, vegan chocolate chips if you want these to be vegan)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Grind flax seeds in a blender until they become a fine powder, then add the soy milk and blend for about 30 seconds more and set aside.
3. In a large bowl, sift together cocoa, flour, baking soda and salt.
4. Cream the sugar and oil in a separate large bowl.
5. Add the flax/soy milk mixture and mix well.
6. Stir in the vanilla.
7. Slowly mix in the dry ingredients (the original recipe does not call for a mixer, but you may want to use yours.).
8. Mix in the chocolate chips.
9. Roll dough into 1" balls and flatten into disks about 1 1/2" in diameter.
10. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet about 1" apart and bake for 10 minutes.
11. Let rest on the cookie sheet for about 5 minutes, then remove with a spatula to a cooling rack and cool completely.

NOTES:

• **For chocolate chocolate chip cherry cookies, replace 1 teaspoon of the vanilla with almond extract, and use 3/4 cup chocolate chips and 3/4 cup chopped cherries.
• ***For chocolate nut cookies, replace 1 teaspoon of the vanilla with a nut extract (almond, walnut, etc) and replace the chocolate chips with 1 1/2 cups chopped nuts of your choice.