Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars (V + GF)
Your favorite chocolate chip cookies, nonetheless less complicated? We would have liked to do it, associates! These vegan, gluten-free chocolate chip cookie BARS have all of the flavour, nonetheless there’s no chilling, no scooping, and no hand mixer involved! Merely stir, unfold, and bake.
Plus, merely 8 parts and 1 bowl required! They’re very easy it just about seems mistaken…nonetheless they’re so correct: fully sweet, chewy, buttery, and studded with melty chocolate chunks. Seize your favorite mixing bowl and let’s bake!
Simple strategies to Make Vegan Gluten-Free Cookie Bars
These vegan + gluten-free cookie bars start with a flax egg for binding, brown sugar for its sweetness and expertise to create crispy edges, and melted vegan butter and vanilla for conventional cookie flavors!
After whisking them collectively, we transition to the dry parts! Our gluten-free flour combine is the gluten-free G.O.A.T. for mimicking the texture of all-purpose flour, whereas baking powder supplies some carry and sea salt enhances all the flavors.
Then there’s just one additional required ingredient — arguably a really highly effective of all of them: chocolate chips or chunks! We moreover like together with walnuts for a bit of bit crunch, nonetheless whenever you’re not a nuts-in-cookies explicit individual, merely do you.
We hope you LOVE these cookie bars! They’re:
Chewy
Buttery
Tender
Fully sweet
Studded with chocolate
& Undetectably vegan + gluten-free!
Pair with a glass of dairy-free milk and in addition you’ll be in cookie magic land. Or if the local weather is chilly, try them with our 5-Minute Vegan Scorching Cocoa or 5-Minute Caffeine-Free Chai.
Further Recipes for Chocolate Chip Cookie Lovers
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Servings 16 (Bars)
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- 1 Tbsp flaxseed meal (to make flax egg)
- 2 ½ Tbsp water (to make flax egg)
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar (or sub coconut sugar with fully completely different outcomes — see notes)
- 1/2 cup melted vegan butter (we used Miyoko's)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ⅓ cup MB 1:1 GF Combine* (or one different gluten-free combine)
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips or chunks (assure dairy-free as needed // we like Take pleasure in Life)
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (non-compulsory nonetheless helpful)
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Preheat your oven to 350 ranges F (176 C) and line an 8 x 8-inch baking pan with parchment paper. Put apart.
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To a medium mixing bowl, add flaxseed meal and water and let rest for 5 minutes to thicken. Subsequent, add brown sugar, melted vegan butter, and vanilla. Whisk correctly to combine — the mix ought to show into cohesive.
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Subsequent, fold throughout the GF flour combine, baking powder, and sea salt. Lastly, stir throughout the chocolate chips and non-compulsory walnuts until merely blended.
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Pour the mix into the lined baking pan and bake for 25-28 minutes until the sides are golden brown and the center is golden. Let cool at room temperature for in any case 20 minutes sooner than slicing into bars. The longer they sit, the upper they’re going to preserve their kind…although we do prefer to benefit from them barely warmth!
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Retailer in an airtight container at room temperature for as a lot as 3-4 days or throughout the freezer for as a lot as 1 month.
*We most popular the flavour and texture of brown sugar over coconut sugar. The brown sugar made the bars chewy whereas the coconut sugar gave them a additional healthful style and cakey, barely crumbly texture.
*If not gluten-free, chances are you’ll try all-purpose flour as an alternative of the gluten-free flour combine. We advocate starting with 1 ¼ cups, together with additional as needed to achieve the consistency of the batter throughout the video.
*Vitamin information is a tricky estimate calculated with out non-compulsory parts.
Serving: 1 bar Vitality: 148 Carbohydrates: 20.9 g Protein: 0.7 g Fat: 7.1 g Saturated Fat: 5.1 g Polyunsaturated Fat: 0 g Monounsaturated Fat: 0 g Trans Fat: 0 g Ldl ldl cholesterol: 0 mg Sodium: 135 mg Potassium: 34 mg Fiber: 0.7 g Sugar: 12.7 g Vitamin A: 0 IU Vitamin C: 0 mg Calcium: 31 mg Iron: 0.8 mg