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I love biscuits. Who doesn't? But good vegan biscuit recipes are quite hard to find. I love big American-style chewy cookies but in those recipes eggs are often a vital ingredient. These cookies are chewy, chocolaty and absolutely delicious - you wouldn't believe they're vegan! (original recipe from http://www.food.com/)

The dough is quite different from you're typical cookie dough. The amount of dry ingredients seems huge compared to the amount of wet ingredients and you have to use your hand or an electric dough mixer to get all of them mixed in. It's still quite easy to roll balls from the dough. There are no saturated fats in this recipe and even though there's a lot of sugar I used cane sugar which is a bit healthier option. I didn't feel like being a health-freak while baking these cookies but feel free to replace part of the all-purpose flour with whole wheat flour.

If you want to try something different try replacing the chocolate chips with chopped nuts (any nuts are fine). And why not try using white chocolate chips?

Chewy Vegan Double Chocolate-Chip Cookies  (30-40 biscuits)

• 1 3/4 decilitres canola oil
• 4½ decilitres cane sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar/extract
• 1 tablespoon (ground) flax seeds
• 1 decilitre soy/grain milk
• 4½ decilitres flour
• 1 3/4 decilitres dark unsweetened cacao powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3 decilitres vegan chocolate chips

Preheat the oven into 175°C. Cover a sheet pan with bakery paper. If you're using whole flax seeds, grind the seeds in a blender (if you have ground flax seeds just place them in a bowl). Add soy/grain milk and blend/whip the mixture for a little while and set aside. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, cacao powder, baking soda and vanilla sugar (if you use vanilla extract add it to the flax-milk-mixture). Cream the sugar and oil in a large bowl. Mix in the flax-milk-mixture. Slowly mix in the dry ingredients. Eventually you have to use your hand to get it all mixed in. You can also use an electric dough mixer to do this. Fold in the chocolate chips.

Roll the dough into balls that have a diameter of 2,5-3cm. Place the balls on the pan and flatten them (diameter app. 4-5cm). Don't place the cookies too close to each other. Bake for 10 minutes. They might not seem ready yet but they are. Let them cool down on the pan for 5 minutes and a place them on a cooling rack to cool down completely.