The holidays are the most wonderful time of year to indulge in cookies. And when the cookies are wholegrain, have twice the chocolate and the goodness of hazelnuts, do you really need an excuse? Bake up my nine-ingredient Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies today, and eat one -- or a dozen!
I made these Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies for my favorite little man -- my son, Jay. But as their rich, intensely chocolate-y, deep fragrance permeated the house, and as I took my first bite, I simply didn't want to share. Not very mom-like, I know, but, erm, human?
Chocolate and hazelnuts are an easy and natural flavor combination, as anyone who's spread a spoonful of Nutella on toast knows. And in these cookies there's an armload of hazelnuts and two armloads of chocolate, in the form of raw cacao powder and semisweet chocolate chips.
You need just nine ingredients for this recipe. And what also gladdens this mom's heart is that the cookies are wholegrain, and with unrefined sugar sweetening them, I know this is a treat I can add to Jay's vegan lunch box without any qualms.
Also, I don't think I've made an easier cookie-- there was no mixing the dry ingredients and mixing the wet ingredients and combining them, and all that. You just throw the ingredients in one by one -- in the right order, of course -- and you're done.
Top tips
- I used whole wheat pastry flour to make these cookies, but mix it up with half unbleached all purpose and half regular whole wheat, or all unbleached all purpose flour.
- Try another nut. Almonds would be great in these cookies. Or you can just add in some almond or coconut flour. Use half a cup.
- If you don't want to use vegan butter, swap it out for any vegetable oil, like avocado or coconut oil.
- Can't find raw cacao powder? Use regular baking cocoa.
- Don't have a stand mixer or don't want to use it? You don't really need one to make these cookies. Mix the ingredients in the order listed in a large bowl. Before you mix, make sure your butter is at room temperature so it mixes easily with the sugar.
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Recipe card
Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch + 2 tablespoon water
- ½ cup hazelnuts processed into a fairly fine powder
- ¼ cup raw cacao powder
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 4 tablespoon vegan butter
- ½ cup sugar (like turbinado)
- ½ cup semisweet vegan chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, or in a large bowl with a spatula, mix the butter and sugar until well-blended.
- Add the vanilla extract, mix, then add the cornstarch-water mix, flour, powdered hazelnuts, cacao powder, and baking powder. Mix until combined, and then stir in the chocolate chips.
- On a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, drop ¾-inch balls of dough at least an inch apart(don't worry too much about shaping them, just dropping them with a rounded spoon is fine, or use your fingers. The cookies will spread as they bake.)
- Place the cookie sheet in the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Let the cookies cool on the sheet for a couple of minutes, then, using a thin spatula, remove to a rack to cool.
- Eat.
Nutrition Information
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Sunayna Almal says
My go to recipe for cookies now. I have baked three batches and his month already.
Deb Z says
Hello!
There is no better combo than chocolate and hazelnut. Is it imperative to grind the hazelnut to a flour consistency? I would love to have bits of hazelnut in this cookie. What do you think?
Vaishali says
Hi Deb, you can leave some larger pieces in there, it should be fine!
Natalie says
You list flour in the ingredients list but it‘s not mentioned again the recipe…
Vaishali says
Hi, it's the first ingredient listed -- whole wheat pastry flour. You can use all purpose flour if you want to.