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Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

/ MichelleAnnWeber / 5 Comments

Tonight I tried a recipe for these really good vegan, chocolate chip cookies. They turned out much better then expected. Here is the recipe! Enjoy 🙂

P.S. I found this cute meme on Pintrest and it definitely held true when I made these cookies

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Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies:

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Ingredients: 

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  • 1 cup flour
  • .5 cup oats
  • .5 tsp baking soda
  • 2 Tbsp peanut butter (crunchy or normal)
  • .25 cup vegetable oil
  • 3 Tbsp warm water
  • 2 Tbsp ground flax seed
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • .33 cup brown sugar
  • .33 cup granulated sugar
  • .5 cup vegan bittersweet chocolate chips
  • .33 cup sliced almonds

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In medium bowl mix together flour, oats & baking soda.

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2. In a large bowl stir together the sugars, peanut butter, water, oil, ground flax seed, and extract.

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3. Add flour mixture to wet mixture and mix well. Add in chocolate chips and almonds. Stir well!

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4. Form dough into tablespoon sized balls. Place on pan and press down a little.

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5. Place in pre-heated oven and bake for 12 minutes!

6. Enjoy 🙂

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Vegan Banana Pancakes

/ MichelleAnnWeber / Leave a comment

Today I made some awesome vegan pancakes for lunch (yes, lunch). This is the first REAL vegan recipe I have tried and it was super easy and delicious.

Banana Pancakes:

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Ingredients: 

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  • 1.5 cup of Almond Milk (or other milk alternative)
  • 2 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar (Optional, I ended up not using any)
  • 1 tbsp Ground Flax Seed
  • 1.5 cup Flour
  • 3.5 tsp Baking Powder
  • 2 tbsp Sugar
  • .5 tsp Salt
  • 3.5 tbsp Coconut Oil (Can be substituted for other natural oil)
  • .5 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • Nuts & Syrup

Directions:

  1. Whisk together milk, flax seed and vinegar in small cup/bowlImage
  2. In a larger bowl, mix together: flour, baking powder, sugar and salt.Image
  3. Add milk mixture to flour mixture.
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  5. Add in the coconut oil (melted), and extract. Mix well. The batter with be pretty lumpy and thick!
  6. Add in mashed banana.
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  8. Mix together.
  9. Heat up a pan and plop (literately because it is so thick…) the batter on to get these baby’s cooking. You know what to do from here. Flip, flip, flip.
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  11. When done, add syrup and nuts and you have yummy vegan banana pancakes!Image