Chocolate Chip Cookies. Vegan, Gluten Free.

  Today as we were coming home from the park and my three younger children wanted to stop and get a treat. I told them that when we got home that we would try our hand at making some chocolate chip cookies.
  I had not tried to make them before but had wanted to my hand at making some. They turned out really good!!! They are not gooey in the middle which is my all time favorite. I had perfected my non-vegan chocolate chip cookies to be crunchy on the outside and gooey in the middle. However, these cookies were really good!!! They have the same texture as pumpkin cookies.
  Without further adieu here you go!!!

Heat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
In a mixing bowl combine
  1 1/2 Cup Vegan or Unprocessed Raw Sugar
  1/2 Cup Powdered Stevia
  1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
  1- 15oz Can of Beans (Pinto or light Kidney work well, Drained, Rinsed and blended well!!!)
  3/4 Cup Unsweetened Apple Sauce
  1/2 Cup Coconut oil (Solid or Melted)
  1 full tincture liquid Stevia Carmel flavor (Optional) but delicious
  1 TBSP Vanilla
 Blend to combine
  Then add
  4 tsp Baking Powder
  1 tsp Salt
  1/8 tsp Xanthan Gum
   You can pick this up at your health food store and a lot of your regular grocery stores now carry this and a LITTLE goes a LONG ways!!! Learned that the hard way :0)
  1 bag of Chocolate Chips. If you like a lot of chocolate chips in your cookies then add 1 1/2- 2 bags. Make sure they are vegan.
   Add nuts if you like about 1 cup should do it or you can eyeball it.
Mix again
  4 Cups of Flour
         Any kind will do I used a mixture of Tapioca Flour, Brown Rice Flour, and Corn Starch. To make them Gluten free. About 1 cup tapioca, and corn starch, then 2 cups rice. I did have to add about half a cup extra of the rice flour because Tapioca flour is not very thickening. If you use White flour or Wheat flour start with the four cups and add if needed.
   Mix well and scoop onto a lightly sprayed cookie sheet. Bake for 13 minutes pull out and let cool on a cooling rack or eat the whole bowl raw. :0) Nothing better then raw dough and you cant get sick because there are no raw eggs.
 

                     Here is the consistency and yes I did eat it off of my spoon. Mmmmm Yummy.
I hope that you enjoy these as much as we do.

 Much Love, Emily Bryar