{"id":966,"date":"2008-01-03T01:46:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/vegan-choc-chip-cookies\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T01:46:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T15:46:33","slug":"vegan-choc-chip-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/vegan-choc-chip-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Choc Chip Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was inspired by this recipe: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recipezaar.com\/162426\">Best Vegan Choc Chip Cookies!<\/a> and slightly modified it. Namely, I didn&#8217;t seem to have any maple syrup, so I used Golden syrup and i wasn&#8217;t sure it was chocolately enough, so added 1\/3rd cup cocoa powder.<\/p>\n<p>I quite like the outcome, and so at least does Michael &#8211; so it so far gets one friend approval.<\/p>\n<p>The complete recipe (what I did, not exactly what&#8217;s at the link):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 1\/4 cups plain flour<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/4 cup oat flour (to make, grind approximately 2 cups rolled oats in food processor until a fine, flour consistency)<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/8 cups rolled oats<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/8 teaspoons baking soda<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (I used some I found that were about 63% cocoa and supplemented with some crush soy chocolate &#8211; if making this vegan, check the choc chips &#8211; even dark chocolate chips may contain milk)<\/li>\n<li>1 cup golden syrup<\/li>\n<li>1 cup canola oil (i just used normal vegetable cooking oil&#8230; likely canola..)<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons water<\/li>\n<li>1\/3 cup cocoa powder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and then:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mix everything together in a bowl. It will be a moist dough, and yummy<\/li>\n<li>Put it on biscuit trays<\/li>\n<li>180 degrees C for 18-20 minutes (or a bit longer if your oven is crap like mine)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was inspired by this recipe: Best Vegan Choc Chip Cookies! and slightly modified it. Namely, I didn&#8217;t seem to have any maple syrup, so I used Golden syrup and i wasn&#8217;t sure it was chocolately enough, so added 1\/3rd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/vegan-choc-chip-cookies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegan-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-fA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1120,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/01\/pancakes\/","url_meta":{"origin":966,"position":0},"title":"Pancakes!","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-06-01","format":false,"excerpt":"Tried a vegan pancake recipe for breakfast (with maple syrup and jam for tapping... and i was wishing i had some soy ice cream around). yum! 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