Name: Vegan Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 14 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 1 cup all-purpose flour; 1 cup whole grain wheat flour; 11/2 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp kosher salt; 1/2 cup coconut oil (melted); 1/2 cup unsweetened natural almond butter; 6 tbsp water; 1 tsp pure vanilla extract; 11/4 cup dark brown sugar; 11/4 cups dark chocolate chips (I used Callebaut 811 callets); 1/2 cup roasted, salted almonds

vegan chocolate chip cookie on plate — Toasty melty chocolate chip cookie goodness – and vegan, too!

The Best Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

I’ve been baking chocolate chip cookies for twenty years now – they are my danger food, my sweet and salty kryptonit. I love cookies more than cake, but possibly not more than salt and pepper ripple chips. This vegan almond butter chocolate chip cookie recipe rips other vegan cookies a new one, with the secret ingredient: yeah, it’s almond butter, lol! This recipe is adapted from my wonderful pal Michelle of Hummingbird High, from her book Weeknight Baking! I have made many delicious things from her baking book – from her perfect blueberry muffins to a fudge frosting chocolate sheet cake. Michelle’s recipes are known for their exactitude and meticulousness, traits which I admire!

Vegan Baking Ingredients

Something I’ve learned over many years of “veganizing” conventional cookie recipes – you can often just simply omit things like dairy or eggs. I love this recipe because it uses almond butter as the binding ingredient, instead of eggs, and it adds a delicious rich and nutty flavour. You can also easily swap natural peanut butter for the almond butter, too – I’ve done that many times. I think the key to choosing vegan ingredients is finding the best quality ingredients you can, when possible.

Vegan Chocolate

When choosing dairy free chocolate, I love using Callebaut Chocolate 811 dark chocolate calettes – they are rich, perfectly melty and not overly sweet, nor are they too bitter. You can find it in block form, too – but I love the ease of the calettes – they’re chocolate chip’s classy pal. I also love Guittard’s bittersweet chocolate wafers for cookie-making. For this vegan almond butter chocolate chip cookie recipe, I used the Callebaut 811 calettes, because I have a big ol’ bag of them I bought for recipe-testing for a cookbook! :)

How To Make Perfectly Round Cookies

Did you know a round cookie straight out of the oven is a true rarity? My tricks to rounding out a misshapen cookie? I pan-bang the pan on the counter (have your family plug their ears, haha) to allow the cookie to spread to its edges. Then, I use an offset spatula to coax the cookie into a round shape. Other folks enjoy using a large round cookie cutter to “scoot” it back into a classic cookie shape.

Why You Should Try This Vegan Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

If you are Team Nuts in a cookie, you’ll love these, as there’s Double Nuts. I love chocolate and almonds together, so this is my perfect cookie. Maybe you also like nuts? Perhaps you like them toasted? For nut shopping, I love the bulk roasted salted almonds from Costco, but I also tend to cruise down the snack aisle when I’m grocery shopping to see if any roasted almonds happen to be on sale. If so, into the basket they go, to be sprinkled upon morning yogurt, crunched down by snacky handfuls or chopped up for cookies. Note, nuts can go rancid left in the pantry, so try to store them in the fridge for optimal freshness. No one likes rancid nuts. Weirdly, I am not Team Nuts when it comes to any other baked good. Muffins, cake loaves, etc – I’m team No Nuts. However, I also love a raisin. Which makes me Team Wildcard. But enough about nuts! Try these cookies!

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