Velvet Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies With Walnuts

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
1/2 cup walnut pieces
1 cup raw sugar
1/2 cup canola oil or earthbalance spread
1/3 cup almond milk

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

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

3. In a medium mixing bowl combine the sugar, oil, almond milk. 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 the 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.