How do you make vegan cookies?

Question

My friend and I are becoming vegans, and we're trying to make vegan cookies. Anyone have any good recipies?

Vegan means no animal products whatsoever. Meaning, no eggs, no milk products, no milk chocolate chips, no butter etc.

Don't bother telling us why we shouldn't be vegan. It's a choice we've already made. We're just looking for a recipie. Thanks!

Answer 1

"Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies
Submitted by Isa
prep time: 30 minutes | cooking time: 15 minutes + | makes 40 cookies
There are chewy, gooey and... I can't think of anything else that rhymes. They are peanut-y oatmeal-y good! They will feed an army so half the recipe if you need to.
Equipment:
A good ol' fashioned baking sheet

Ingredients
6 oz firm silken tofu (1/2 a package of the vacuum sealed kind)
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/2 cup canola oil
1/4 cup soymilk
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
2 cups sugar or sucanat
4 teaspoons molasses
2 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups quick cooking oats
2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Directions
Prehat oven to 350

In a medium bowl, sift together whole wheat pastry flour, oats, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.

In a seperate large bowl, cream together peanut butter and sugar with a spatula until well combined, 3 - 5 minutes.

In a blender, crumble the tofu in, add applesauce, soymilk and oil. Whiz on high until completely smooth. Add this mixture to the sugar mixture and cream together until well combined. Beat in the molasses and vanilla. Fold in the oats/flour mixture.

Drop by rounded spoonfulls onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten the tops by lightly pressing with a fork in a criss cross pattern. Bake for 15 minutes.

Optional: Fold 1 1/2 cups raisins or semi sweet chocolate chips (or both) into the batter"
from http://www.theppk.com/recipes/dbrecipes/index.php?RecipeID=31






"Raspberry Heart Cookies
Crisp and light, these will make your sweetheart swoon
(You will need one 3-inch and one smaller heart cookie cutter for this)

1/2 cup almonds, toasted and ground fine
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/8 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. light almond or canola oil
3 Tbsp. brown rice syrup
2 Tbsp. maple syrup
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. almond extract
1/2 cup natural raspberry jam

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Brush lightly with oil.

Mix together first four ingredients. Stir together the rest of the ingredients except for the jam and then combine with the dry ingredients, stirring until well combined. If this is too sticky, add more flour a little bit at a time.

Roll out cookie dough to approximately 1/8 inch thick or less between sheets of waxed paper. With the 3-inch cookie cutter, cut out hearts and transfer to the baking sheet. With the smaller cutter, cut a small heart out of the middle of half of the cookie shapes.

Bake until cookies are very lightly toasted along the edges, approximately 7 - 12 minutes.

When cool, spread 2 tsp. of jam on a heart cookie, then place another on top of it. This looks nice placed in small scoop of non-dairy ice cream or just by itself."
from http://www.veganstreet.com/veganliving/recipes026.html

Answer 2

Vegan Sugar Cookie

This is one of my adopted recipes that I added a few ingredients to. The reviews that the original recipe received were to dry and a bit tasteless. The changes did make a nice cookie with a good taste.
10 tablespoons vegan margarine (room temp-soft)
1/2 cup vegan sugar
1 1/2 cups unbleached flour
1 carton egg substitute, enough to equal one egg (read the label, not all are vegan)
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 tablespoon almond extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons vegan sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamon

15 servings Change size or US/metric
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22 minutes 10 mins prep

Cream vegan margarine and vegan sugar. Add egg substitute, enough to equal one regular egg, vanilla, and almond extract.
Add dry ingredients and mix well except for the 2 tbls of sugar and 2 tbls of cinnamon. Combine these two ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
Form balls and roll in sugar and cinnamon.
Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 350 F for about 10-12 minutes or until slightly golden.


Here's a couple of places to buy vegan cookies
http://www.vegan-delights.com/vegan-cookies-by-vegan-delights.html
http://www.ladolcevegan.com/

Answer 3

Oh my, the question is why would you make vegan cookies...or any thing else for that reason? Ewww.

The reason I am so opinionated about vegan diets is that vegan is the same in most respects to Hindu fasting. We fast constantly. You name it and we are busy fasting. Oh, look it's the third aniversary of Durga's maid's third cousin's wedding...let's have 9 days of fasting. No rank guys, it's dahl and veggies for the week. As a result I have seen many people suffer from poor nutrition. The few veggies that provide protien are also high in carbohydrates. It is a nightmare balancing your intake to cover all the nutritional basics.

I would recommend going vegitarian but not vegan...its too extreme to be healthy. At least you get a nice variety of protien sources with dairy. And you get to wear leather shoes and belts...don't forget a true vegan consumes no animal matter...blah blah blah...

Answer 4

Wai ... Vegan means no meat including dairy ... hence no milk, eggs, etc. Without sounding like a fanatic, those end-products are the result of horrific animal exploitation as well.

Answer 5

couldn't do veganism myself, but if you can, great!

there's some yummy sounding vegan cookie recipes on that link, including one for vegan "twinkies"!

Answer 6

What? I don't really understand this whole vegan thing, but since when did cookies use meat (besides eggs or maybe milk, if you consider that 'meat')?

Answer 7

I have no idea on what kind of recipes there are for vegen cookies. Sorry.

Answer 8

you will need a particular veggy for this.
cucumber,zuccini any veggie that are round.
Then just cut into slices and lay flat
there ya go a COOKIE!!!!
and its so good for you! BLAHHHHHH!!!
come on now
dont you girls want me to fix you a nice big juicy steak on the grill!!????
GGGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrr