Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies

5 from 5 votes

Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies are everything you love about a classic vegan cookie.

Course Cookies, Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 10

Total Time 30

Servings Cookies

Calories 83kcal

Author Ginny McMeans

½ cup dairy free butter
½ cup coconut sugar
½ cup organic brown sugar, packed
1 tablespoon flax seed meal egg = 1 flax seed meal mixed with 3 Tablespoons water
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup dairy-free milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 ounces chocolate chips
½ cups dried cherries
½ cup pecans
½ cup shelled sunflower seeds, you can use all pecans too but chop these

Lightly grease a baking sheet.
Mix the flax seed meal and water together and set aside so that it can gel a bit.
In a large bowl with a hand mixer - cream the vegan butter and both sugars together until it is light and fluffy. It takes about 5 minutes.
Add the flax meal egg mixture to the creamed sugar mixture and mix together. Stir in the vanilla.
In another bowl mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt together.
Add this and the almond milk, alternately, to the creamed mixture.
Mix well after each addition.
Stir in the chocolate chips, dried cherries, nuts and seeds.
Place Tablespoon full dollops of dough onto the prepared baking sheet.
Bake at 375 degrees for 8-9 minutes.

IF FREEZING:

Package in rigid sided containers as defined in my article [Preparing Food for the Freezer

TO PREPARE AFTER FREEZING:

Remove from the freezer and just set out. They defrost in no time.