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This recipe is in honor of Olivia, because she gave this recipe to me a zillion years ago, when we were teenagers. The original was published in a magazine, I think, and Olivia replaced optional nuts with non-optional chocolate chips. I’ve converted the recipe to be gluten-free and added vegan options. It makes amazing chocolatey delicious cookies that are soft in the middle and just barely crunchy around the edges! Yum!!!

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Amazing Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies - gluten-free, can be vegan - delicious!!!

These amazing chocolate chocolate chip cookies are soft and delicious -- and very chocolatey! They can optionally be gluten-free and vegan.

Prep Time10

Cook Time8

Total Time18

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 23 cookies

Author: Valerie Mates

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter or margarine I like Earth Balance organic spread (tip: in this recipe do not substitute oil for the buttery spread; it needs to be un-melted so that it can melt as the cookies bake)
1 cup flour or your favorite gluten-free flour mix - I use 1/4 cup each of potato starch, garbanzo flour, teff flour, and quinoa flour, plus about 1/8 teaspoon of xanthan gum or guar gum
6 tablespoons baking cocoa powder that's 3/8 cup (I like Now organic cocoa powder)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt - optional
1 egg or a vegan flax egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chocolate chips I like Equal Exchange semisweet - this link is for a whole case!

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
If you are using flax eggs, mix up the flax egg.
Use a mixer or food processor to mix the sugar and buttery spread together until smooth and creamy.
Add all of the other ingredients except for the chocolate chips, and blend into a smooth dough.
Stir in the chocolate chips.
Use two dinnertable tablespoons or a medium cookie scoop to drop about 1 1/2 tablespoons of dough at a time onto nonstick cookie sheets.
Bake for 8-9 minutes. The cookies will puff up during baking and flatten as they cool.