Deliciously satisfying double-chocolate vegan chocolate cookies! Quick and easy, crunchy and soft, perfect for satisfying all your chocolate cravings.
What I love about cookies is that they’re so easy and quick to make.
These vegan chocolate cookies bake in 10 minutes! I mean really!
So if you’re in the mood for a batch of cookies there’s really not a lot standing between you and a tray of warm chocolate cookies straight from the oven complete with melting chocolate.
And what’s better than vegan chocolate cookies? Double chocolate cookies! I couldn’t resist adding chocolate chunks to these cookies.
And aside from what’s baked into them, as soon as they came out of the oven, beautifully warm, I placed a few more chocolate chunks right on top.
Because you can’t get too many chocolate chunks in your chocolate cookies.
As you can see from the photos below, the cookie dough is pretty dry. This is exactly what you want.
The result is a chocolate cookie with the perfect amount of crunch and the perfect amount of softness too.
I found the cookie dough to be so perfect that it just rolled into perfect balls. However, if your dough is a bit sticky, just dust your hands with some cocoa powder, it’ll do the trick.
These vegan chocolate cookies tick all the boxes, they are:
- Double chocolate
- Both crunchy and soft
- Super easy
- Deliciously satisfying
If you keep them in a covered container, they easily last up to a week!
More vegan cookies!
- Vegan Oatmeal Cookies
- Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies
- The Easiest Vegan Sugar Cookies
- Vegan Shortbread Cookies
- Vegan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
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Vegan Chocolate Cookies
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 16
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Deliciously satisfying double-chocolate vegan chocolate cookies! Both quick and easy, crunchy and soft, these cookies are perfect for satisfying all your chocolate cravings.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup (112g) Vegan Butter
- 1/2 cup (100g) White Sugar
- 1/2 cup (100g) Brown Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 cup (125g) All Purpose Flour
- 2/3 cup (56g) Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1 Tbsp Soy Milk (or other non-dairy milk)
- 3.5 oz (100g) Vegan Dark Chocolate + more for topping (chopped into small chunks)*
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
- Add the vegan butter and brown and white sugar to an electric mixing bowl and cream together. Add the vanilla and mix in.
- Sift the flour and cocoa powder into a mixing bowl and mix in the baking soda and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet, mixing in by hand until crumbly.
- Add the 1 Tbsp soy milk or other non-dairy milk and mix into a thick cookie dough.
- Add the chocolate chunks and mix in. Your cookie dough will be very thick, but sticky enough to easily roll into balls.
- Roll into small balls and space evenly on a parchment lined baking tray.
- Bake for 10 minutes. The edges will be firm but the cookies will still be soft in the middle. This is fine, they will firm up as they cool.
- Press in a few more chocolate chunks to the top of the cookies as they come out of the oven if you like (optional).
Notes
*You can use vegan chocolate chips instead if you can find them, I can’t get them here which is why I cut a slab of dark chocolate into chunks. Also, this way you get to use nice big chunks of chocolate!
*Depending on the brand of vegan butter you use, you may need 1 or 2 more tablespoons of soy (or other non-dairy) milk. But be patient with each addition of soy milk, stir well and see if you really need more. It is supposed to be a very thick, crumbly cookie dough. But if you try and roll a section into a ball and it just won’t hold together, then you’ll need a little more. Most soft spread-style vegan butters/margarines won’t cause any issue, I’m talking specifically about the hard blocks that you get (and occasionally you can find one without animal products), if you use one of these, you’ll likely need a bit more soy milk, but just use as little as possible.
*If you peep into your oven at the 10-minute mark and see that your cookies haven’t spread very much, you can bake for a couple of minutes longer. But even if they are quite puffy on the top, this is fine and goes down as they cool.
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: Vegan
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Cookie (of 16)
- Calories: 153
- Sugar: 14.2g
- Sodium: 165mg
- Fat: 6.8g
- Saturated Fat: 2.7g
- Carbohydrates: 23.1g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 1.9g
Keywords: vegan chocolate cookies
Unfortunately I only had 50g of chocolate so I had to cut the recipe in half. These were SO good I can’t wait to have more chocolate to make more!!
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Hi Christina! So happy you enjoyed the recipe! You can make the full batch even with less chocolate, they will still be totally delicious. xo
I have made these cookies at least a dozen time and they always turn out amazing. Instead of all purpose flour, I use a combination of gluten free flour and almond flour. So, so delicious!
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Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing Melissa!
Wow!! Best cookies ever!! Made them for my whole family who isn’t vegan and they all were asking me to make more for days!!! And I didn’t notice until after that I completely forgot the brown sugar! I was surprised they turned out to be the best cookies ever even with the mess up!!!!
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Awesome! So happy everyone liked them! Thanks for the great review.
Hi! I soo badly want to make these but considering the current situation I have been unable to find any brown sugar anywhere! is there any chance that I could just use white sugar only? I don’t have any other alternative that I can think of! thanks <3
Hi Chloe, yes for sure! All white sugar will be totally fine. 🙂
These are honestly the best cookies I’ve made ! Out of all recipes including non vegan !! So simple and incredibly tasty:) thank you so much!
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Thanks so much Rachel! xo
These are amazing!!!
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Thanks Patrice!
These cookies are innnnnnncredibleee.
I have to admit I made these with SPECIAL coconut oil instead of vegan butter and they were still Fudgeeo level of greatness.
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Fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing!
These cookies were so easy to make and turned out delicious! I definitely needed more than 1 tablespoon milk (I used cashew). But I just added a little at a time until the dough came together. Pressed the dough balls a little before baking. These definitely satisfied my chocolate craving. Thank you!
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Awesome! Thanks so much Marisa! 🙂
Added orange essence to mix it up. Won me the great bake off in work against all non vegan bakes!! Second time making it now!
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Awesome!!! 🙂
This recipe is delicious and quite forgiving. I don’t cook with eggs but I use dairy so I adapted this recipe to my needs. I used regular butter and dairy milk. I had to use 3 tbsp of milk to get the dough to be cohesive and rollable into balls. The result is amazing! Thanks for the recipe!
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So happy to hear that Pavi! Thanks so much for posting! 🙂
This is my favourite cookie recipe ever! I have made these so many times and every time they turned out delicious. Thank you Alison for such an amazing recipe! Would 100% recommend… they are brilliant!
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Awesome! Thanks Enid!
My granddaughter’s loved these, only made them this morning, couldn’t find a previous recipe, and came across yours
A BIG HIT
Thank you
Thanks so much for sharing Des, so glad they were a hit! 🙂
Love these cookies. Do you they could be made in advance & frozen?
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Thanks Elisabeth! Yes they are totally freezer friendly. 🙂
Just made these oh my! Decadent! Add some walnuts to the second pan of cookies…delicious with or without! A keeper.
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Awesome! Thanks so much Anne! 🙂
I have made these and the peanut cookies. Both absolutely delicious. I am gluten free and they work perfectly with gluten free flour.Thank you.
Awesome, thanks for sharing Liz!
love these, I don’t have vegan butter so i just used sunflower oil, we flattened the balls down when we got them out of the oven, They’re a big hit in our house!
thanks!!
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Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing Joanna! 🙂
Hello,
I’ve just made these cookies and left the dough in a ball shape as suggested. After baking they remained a ball. I suppose this could be down to the vegan butter (UK – consisting of a blend of rapeseed/olive oil). I suppose this could explain why it didn’t spread? Could you suggest a good vegan butter brand that you use?
With the second batch of cookies I flattened them down prior to baking and they have baked more evenly.
I’ve tasted the one of the cookie balls (i’m still waiting for the second batch to come out of the oven) and they taste so indulgent and chocolatey and delicious. This is a chocoholic’s dream and my house smells devine.
Thank you so much. I can’t wait to try your other bakes. Do you have a personal favourite recipe on your website that you would recommend i try?
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Hi Rhys, if the dough is too chilled (can be down to the weather even) then sometimes they won’t flatten. It’s a good idea to just beat the butter/sugar a bit longer so your dough isn’t too cold when the cookies go into the oven. Alternatively flattening them with a fork also works just fine. So glad you enjoyed them! Honestly I’m too biased towards all our recipes but the desserts are a personal fave!
Also in the UK, I used buttery Flora, and worked a rreat
This recipe is amazing and made in no time!! Joined a Party last Saturday and People were all blown-away (including the Kids). I added some grounded hazelnuts (approx. 30g) and reduced the amount of flour a bit (by approx. -20g) and I put a caramel candy in the middle of each Cookie dough. This is so delicious, you have to try it with this melted caramel core 🙂
Thanks a lot for the recipe!
Best wishes from Switzerland,
Caroline
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Sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing and the awesome review Caroline! 🙂
I made these yesterday for a party, and they were a hit! I used apple sauce instead of butter, because my husband and I try to eat oil free. The were very gooey so I had to use extra flour. They stuck to the paper a bit so didn’t look the best, but they tasted amazing. Any suggestions on how much apple sauce to use, or an alternative to the butter?
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Hi Jennifer! So glad they worked out! I haven’t tried these with applesauce but in general it would be the same amount as the butter. 🙂
Perfect. Thank you for on-the-mark recipes again and again!
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Awesome! Thanks Tzivi! 🙂
I haven’t eaten a baked cookie yet, but if they taste anywhere near as good as the dough does, they’ll be great! They were a little hard to pull together, but not by much! I didn’t have any vegan butter on hand, so i used 3 ounces of vegetable oil. It worked the same way! I left out the chocolate chips/chunks because I made these for my dad and he doesn’t like chocolate chips in his cookies but I’m sure they’ll still taste great! Looking forward to eating a baked one!
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So good! I made them using chunks of the Trader Joes pound plus bar, and I used whole wheat flour. Also, I mixed by hand with a spoon. It turned out so well that my friends asked for the recipe! Also, you were right that taking them out while they’re still really puffy is fine. I thought they weren’t done but then they hardened into the best cookies ever. 10/10 recommend
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