Delicious, bakery-style chocolate chunk cookies with large bites of melty chocolate throughout. Vegan friendly with refined sugar free option!
My hubby left for Australia for work this week so I started baking to keep my mind occupied. Do you worry when your spouse or child is away from home? It was even harder since he doesn’t have international data and I can’t call to see where he is or how he’s doing. Even though we’ve been together more than twenty years, I’m still so in love with him and miss him dearly when he’s away. We met when I was fourteen and have been best friends ever since.
I’ve been baking up a storm all week! I made batches and batches of chocolate chip cookies using different combinations of ingredients—coconut oil, butter, dairy-free butter, and all-purpose, spelt, and buckwheat flours. My favorite was butter and spelt, but let’s face it, they’re chocolate chip cookies, so they were all delish!
I ate my fill of chocolate chip cookies while watching my hubby’s Marco Polo (the app) video messages of Australia. Such a beautiful place!
He needs to hurry and come back home soon though, because I’m testing brownie recipes tomorrow and muffins the day after that!
All I need now are some volunteers to come over and help me eat all of this before I eat it myself, haha! 😆
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Vegan Chocolate Chunk Spelt Cookies
- Total Time: 47 mins
- Yield: 12–24 cookies 1x
Description
Delicious, bakery-style chocolate chunk cookies with large bites of melty chocolate throughout. Vegan friendly with refined sugar free option.
Ingredients
- ½ cup (105 g) coconut oil or regular/dairy-free butter, melted
- 1/3 cup (68 g) cane sugar
or coconut sugar
- 1/3 cup (85 g) dark brown sugar (packed) or coconut sugar
- ¼ cup (60 mL) almond milk or other milk of choice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups (210g) spelt flour
(can also use all-purpose or half spelt/half all-purpose)
- 1 teaspoon salt (cut in half if using salted butter)
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 6–8 oz dairy-free semi-sweet or dark chocolate chunks or chips
- flaked sea salt
, for sprinkling (optional)
or coconut sugar
(can also use all-purpose or half spelt/half all-purpose)
, for sprinkling (optional)Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or nonstick mat and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine melted oil/butter with sugar(s) until smooth. Add milk and vanilla extract, stirring until well blended.
- Stir in flour, salt, and baking soda, and then fold in chocolate chunks/chips. Cover bowl and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. About 10 minutes before baking, preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Scoop dough onto cookie sheet, either in 2 tablespoon or 1/4 cup increments, depending on how big you want your cookies, leaving space between for spreading.
- Bake for 12–15 minutes, or until cookies are lightly golden around the edges. Slightly cool on the pan before transferring to a cooling rack. Makes 1–2 dozen, depending on size.
- Prep Time: 35 mins
- Cook Time: 12 mins
- Category: dessert, cookies, vegan
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These are my go to cookies! I make them so often. Delicious recipe.
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Made these last night to destress after a long day, at first I was a little worried because the dough was really liquidy after mixing in the flour, but I could see it start to thicken as I let it hydrate over time. I have never used spelt flour before but I really like how it adds a bit of a nutty flavour to the cookies. This recipe is perfect if you aren’t big on super sweet desserts but still want a cookie. The salt is great in helping to balance the flavours (almost like a salted caramel vibe in terms of salty/sweetness). Unfortunately I think I whipped too much air into my butter and sugar and my cookies came out pretty cakey but that’s my own doing. Other than that they are amazing. Super excited to try more recipes with this flour!
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I just made these and they came out so good. Absolutely delicious. This will be my staple recipe from now ok. It was simple and easy to follow. Thank you! You’ve got a new fan!
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Thanks for taking the time to leave a review, Ayana! So happy you enjoyed these cookies!
I made these with date sugar instead of coconut sugar, and they were still so good! The dough wasn’t very sweet but once they were baked, with the melty chocolate chunks, it was almost like eating a salted chocolate chip cookie. They tasted great.
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Hi Caitlyn, I’m so glad you enjoyed these cookies! I love the idea of using date sugar too, I’ll have to try that next time. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience and leave a review! 🙂
My boyfriend is an alkaline vegan, could I use date sugar & leave out the baking Soda?? Thanks 🙂
Hi Izzy, that may work, but the cookies may be flat without baking soda. I haven’t used date sugar in these before, so unfortunately I can’t confirm the results. If you give them a try, I’d love to hear your experience with it though. 🙂
Hi for some reason my oil and sugar mix won’t become smooth ):
Hi Maya, it may not be super smooth, since coconut sugar is pretty grainy. Once you mix everything together, it should turn out fine though! Hope you enjoy them! 🙂
I made them and I was very scared because I’ve never made cookies before, but they came out great! I didn’t have milk so I substituted with water and little more oil than written. I also over cooked them by five minutes (aha) because I made them really big on accident, but they still taste good!
So glad you enjoyed these cookies, Alo! Nothing wrong with making them a bit bigger either 😉 Those are my fave, especially when they have slightly gooey centers! Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback!
Made them tonight!! Delicious!!!
I’m so happy you enjoyed these, Les! Thanks for taking the time to leave a review too! Have a great weekend! 🙂
For all those delicious treats, I would totally volunteer to come and help finish all that you are baking! Those cookies are pinned and saved. I have to try 🙂
Just made these tonight and they are AMAZING. My whole family loved them! Thank you for the amazing recipe!
Aw thank you Hannah! I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know. It’s so encouraging! Have a lovely week!
I love all that melty chocolate and sea salt – these cookies look perfect! And yes, baking is the best therapy/distraction 😉
I definitely volunteer to come over and have a bake party! Those vegan chocolate chip cookies look so good!
Oh my gosh these look incredible.
These chocolate chip cookies look incredible. I love that they are Vegan too. The recipe looks really easy to follow too.
Oh my word! My mouth just watered looking at the pics of those cookies! I want to make these someday! 🙂
YUM!! These look amazing and I love that you added sea salt!! I love sweet and salty together!
WOW these cookies are stunning!