Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe – crispy edges and chewy centers surrounded by puddles of gooey dark chocolate and finished with a sprinkled of flaked sea salt.
I mean, is there anything better!?
what chocolate is used in this giant chocolate chip cookie recipe?
These cookies were made using the new flavors of Endangered Species Chocolate–peanut butter caramel and puffed rice crunch. Endangered Species Chocolate–a premium, non-GMO, fairtrade chocolate company. Endangered Species Chocolate has given back $1.7 million to support conservation efforts for endangered species.
I made these cookies as vegan as I could but the peanut butter caramel chocolate bars do contain some milk fat so be sure to check your chocolate ingredients if you are looking for a strict vegan recipe.
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Giant Vegan Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp ground flax meal
- 3 tbsp filtered water
- 1/2 cup vegan butter room temperature
- 1/2 cup brown sugar packed
- 1/3 cup granulated cane sugar
- 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour spooned and leveled
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 4 packages (6oz) ESC Chocolate chopped
- flaked sea salt
Instructions
- Be sure your oven rack is centered in the oven, preheat to 350 F and prepare two baking sheets with pachmnet paper.
- In a bowl, stir together the flax meal and water and then set it aside to gel, about five minutes. In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter using a handheld mixer until light and fluffy and then add in the brown sugar and granulated sugar and continue beating until smooth and creamy, about 1 minute. Add in the flax mixture and stir until well incorporated. Set aside.
- In another mixing bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda and baking powder and then add half of it to the butter mixture and mix until combined. Add the remaining dry ingredients and mix until a dough forms and no dry spots remain, about 30 seconds. Add in the chopped chocolate bar pieces and mix until combined and evenly distributed.
- Separate the dough into 10 evenly 3-inch balls. Place the balls on the baking sheet about 2-3 inches apart. I put 5 on each baking sheet. Bake the cookies for 8 minutes and then remove them from the oven and raise your center rack a few inches. Tap the cookie sheets against the counter a couple of times and then return them to the oven. Bake for 2 minutes, remove and tap the baking sheets on the counter again to de-flate the cookies and spread the chocolate. Continue baking for additional 3-4 minutes or until the edges start to brown. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before carefully transferring them to a cooling rack to continue cooling. Sprinkle with flaked sea salt before serving.
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Your recipes are so wonderful. I love them all.
Thank you for sharing.
Love Greetings from Austria.Edith
Aww thank you so much! You are too kind! I hope you enjoy them!
Can you just substitute any chocolate if you don’t have the specific kind you have? Thanks!
Hi!
Yes, absolutely. Chop up your favorite chocolate or substitute chocolate chips!
Hi there, these cookies look absolutely mouthwatering. Just wondering if I may substitute the flour with almond flour, oat flour or even buckwheat flour? Many thanks and, Happy New Year 😊
I’ve never tried with those flours before for this recipe. I have a feeling that oat flour might work or a brown rice flour. The texture will probably come out differently. Let me know how it goes! Happy New Year!
I just made these and they turned out so yummy! Can’t even tell they’re vegan but looks like the step with adding in the flax seed was skipped or did I miss it? I added it in after mixing the butter and sugars. Anyway, thanks for the recipe! Will definitely be making these again.
I’m soo happy to hear that you loved them! Thank you for pointing out my mistake. I’ll update the recipe now. Flax mix goes in after the butter, sugars and vanilla.