Vegan Chocolate Sugar Cookies

For days I’ve been munching on these delicious Vegan Chocolate Sugar Cookies. They are crunchy on the outside and softer inside.

HOW TO MAKE VEGAN CHOCOLATE CUT OUT COOKIES

Packed with flavor these chocolate cut out cookies are perfect to be enjoyed plain, with a cup coffee, tea or milk. Or you can also make them extra special and decorate them with Vegan Royal Icing. Or dip them in white chocolate.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Ingredients
• Flour Mix
• What kind of cocoa should I use?
• What is aquafaba?
• Make Vegan Cookie Dough
• How to to roll out cookie dough?
• Can I re-roll scraps?
• Bake the cookies?
• Are these cookies soft?
• Can I decorate these vegan chocolate cookies?

INGREDIENTS

You’ll notice that salt is missing from the list of ingredients. Earth Balance vegan butter I’m using already contains salt/sodium. Chickpea brine is also mildly salty as well. And so I didn’t think it was necessary to add more salt.

If you are using other Vegan Butter check the list of ingredient, if sodium is missing or butter is not salty at all, use ¼ tsp salt in the recipe.

• Vegan Butter (Earth Balance)
• Aquafaba (strained chickpea brine)
• Vanilla Extract
• Almond Extract
• Espresso Powder
• Organic Raw Cane Sugar ( I use Florida Crystals brand)
• Brown Sugar
• Cocoa Powder (natural cocoa powder or Dutch-processed)
• All Purpose Flour
• Corn Starch
• Baking Powder

FLOUR MIX

In a medium size bowl whisk together all purpose flour, corn starch and baking power. Set aside.

Tip : I like to use King Arthur Flour.

COCOA POWDER

In this recipe you can use both Natural and Dutch-processed cocoa power. I mostly use natural cocoa powder so that’s what I used in this recipe.

WHY NATURAL COCOA POWDER WORKS ?

Natural Cocoa Powder is acidic. Usually Natural cocoa powder when used in baking is often paired with an alkaline ingredient – most commonly baking soda. However in this recipe I’m not using baking soda (alkaline), I’m using baking power (acidic). What’s great is that Aquafaba/chickpea brine is alkaline and will act as one in this recipe.

WHY DUTCH-PROCESSED COCOA POWDER WORKS?

Dutch-Processed Cocoa Powder is treated in a potassium carbonate solution that neutralizes cocoa’s acidity. As a result dutch process cocoa powder is usually also darker than natural cocoa powder. And in baking it is most commonly paired with baking powder (acid). In this recipe there are not 3 acidic ingredients : baking powder, brown sugar and coffee.

If you’d like dig deeper and learn more about natural and dutch process cocoa powder check out Natural versus Dutch Process Cocoa Powder.

Sift cocoa powder through a fine mesh sieve.

AQUAFABA, EXTRACTS AND ESPRESSO POWDER

In this cut out chocolate sugar cookie recipe I use chickpea brine (aquafaba). Drain the beans and strain the brine/liquid through a fine mesh sieve. Chickpea brine can be also used to make Vegan/Eggless Royal Icing or Vanilla Vegan Sugar Cookies.

Tip : Chickpea brine can be frozen for up to 3 months.

In a small dish whisk together , espresso powder, Vanilla Extract and Almond Extract.

VEGAN CHOCOLATE COOKIE DOUGH

Into a large bowl add soften vegan butter (Earth Balance), organic raw cane sugar and brown sugar. Cream for 2-3 minutes. Then gradually in 2 additions beat in aquafaba mixture. Beat for additional 2 minutes, until creamy and pale in color.

Then pour all of the sifted cocoa powder into the vegan butter mixture and beat until well combined, about 1 minute. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. And beat for another minute.

Now in 2 additions beat in flour mixture. Dough is softer when 1^st made.

ROLL OUT COOKIE DOUGH

Place the dough onto a parchment paper between 2 rolling guides (1/4inch thick). Roll it out to ¼ inch. Slide the rolled out cookie dough onto a flat tray or baking sheet and refrigerate for an hour.

CUT OUT COOKIES

Slide the chilled and rolled out cookie dough onto a work surface. First peel the top parchment then flip the sheet of rolled out cookie dough and peel the bottom parchment to release the cookie dough.

Cut-out cookies and transfer them onto a baking sheet lined with parchment.

CAN I RE-ROLL SCRAPS?

Absolutely, gather scraps and re-roll the cookie dough.

BAKE THE COOKIES

Bake cookies at 350F for 10 minutes. Don’t over bake or cookies will be too hard. Cookies are soft when you take them out of the oven. They will firm up as they cool. This recipe makes about 20 – 3 inch cookies, ¼ inch thick.

Tip: Don’t over bake, or cookie will be hard.

Allow cookies to cool on a baking sheet to 10 minutes. Then transfer onto a cooling rack to cool completely.

ARE THESE COOKIES SOFT OR CRUNCHY?

These vegan chocolate cookie are crunchy on the outside and soft inside.

CAN I USE THIS RECIPE TO MAKE DECORATED COOKIES ?

Absolutely. I recommend to let the cookies cool and allow them to set for several hours before decorating with Vegan Royal Icing.

TO MAKE VEGAN CHOCOLATE CUT OUT SUGAR COOKIES YOU NEED

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• Baking Sheets
• Parchment
• Cooling Rack
• Cookie Cutters
• Video Tutorial with narattion

MORE VEGAN DESSERT RECIPES :

• Vanilla Vegan Sugar Cookies
• Chocolate Vegan Cake
• Vegan Royal Icing

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