Double Chocolate Mint Vegan Cookies

After these cookies came out of the oven and I was eating my fourth cookie, yes fourth, I thought to myself "cookies should not taste this good because they won't last very long!" I have been on a chocolate mint kick these days and this recipe I have created is by far my favorite. Chocolate mint lovers will adore these cookies, the flavour and texture is out of this world. They are soft and chewy and in all ways they are a perfect cookie, It is impossible to tell that they are vegan.

Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 8 hour
Total time: 23 min
Yield: 24 medium cookies

Ingredients:
2 cups unbleached flour
1/3 cup dark cocoa powder
2 tsps baking powder
1/2 tsp.salt
3/4 cups vegan chocolate chips
1 cup raw sugar
1/2 cup canola or grapeseed oil
1 tsp mint extract
1/3 cup water

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 F (180 C).

2. In a large bowl mix flour, cocoa, salt and baking powder. Add chocolate chips

3. In a medium mixing bowl combine the sugar, oil, water and mint extract. Blend well with an electric mixer.

4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix by hand.

5. With your hands form small balls and place onto a greased cookie sheet and flatten with a fork.

6. Bake the cookies for 4 minutes and then rotate the cookie sheets 180 degrees and bake for another 4 minutes. The cookies are finished when they seem a little bit softer then you want them to be. They will harden up as they cool. If you over bake them they will be too hard.

7. Remove the cookies from the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes before you remove them with a spatula.

By Elisa Shine
Published: May 17, 2010