Oh..My..Gosh.. Excuse me while I invest my life savings on an extravagant party somewhere tropical and YOU ALL are invited. This happens to a lot of us, we write a somewhat “emotional” post and although it may be scary or we don’t know what to expect..the support and advice is UNREAL! The comments I received on my last post blew me away. Never did I expect such compassion, and love from the most amazing people I have never met. I wish I could personally hug each and everyone of you, but I cannot..so I hope the simple words of “thank you” will be enough to express my gratitude.
I read each and every comment twice and they each touched me whether they were one sentence or six paragraphs. Today I will be writing replies to every one of you. It’s safe to say that being in our 20′s can be a tough, but exciting time. Thank you again to all of you, for sharing your stories and words of wisdom. I tend to do irrational things when I am going through a tough time such as chopping my hair off, setting out on a ridiculous adventure, or baking something new. It just so happens that I have done all of these things within the past 2 weeks.
My hair wasn’t that long, but I got it chopped anyway. I still stayed in the safe zone, but one day I will chop it all off..Halle Berry style. I haven’t been running as much as I would like, yet I bit the bullet and signed up for a 10mile race next week. I hope I don’t die. Most importantly I took a stab at making my favorite chocolate chip cookies vegan. For a first attempt, I’d say they turned out well.
Big Fat Chewy Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole wheat flower
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup coconut oil
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup raw sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup cinnamon applesauce (and then some depending on texture)
- 1.5 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
- Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
- In a medium bowl, cream together the melted coconut oil, brown sugar and raw sugar until well blended. Beat in the vanilla, and applesauce until light and creamy. Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon. Drop cookie dough 1/4 cup at a time onto the prepared cookie sheets. Cookies should be about 3 inches apart.
- Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted.
My favorite part about using applesauce was the chunks of apple through the cookie. This might sound like an odd combination of flavors, but it was delicious. I wanted cookies, and I just so happened to have fresh homemade applesauce to sub in for eggs. They texture was fluffy, almost like a muffin..but in a good way.
I ate way too much dough, way too many cookies, and successfully reached feeling sick within an hour. Even the dough was fluffy.
I had to get some of these out of the house, so I made a plate of love for my bfff down the road.
I said some..not all. Four cookies was quite the sacrifice.
I’m off to attempt a long run in preparation for next week. Oy vey.
Q: Do you ever do spur of the moment things when you’re feeling “off?”
Got my bathing suit and sunscreen all packed
. Glad you received so much love, but not surprised at all with this fabulous community. It’s a “sweet” day for me, sure wish I had one or four of those cookies!
WE KEEP BLOGGING AT THE SAME TIMEEEEEE!!!!
Okay, I’ll respond for real. Get your huuuuurr cut Berry style, I think you would rock it b/c you are petite and have a big smile. You have nothing to lose. Are your ears pierced? B/c if you have your hair super short, you can get away wearing large, obnoxiously huge earrings all the time.
These cookies look amazing. WHen I feel down, I don’t do anything too crazy…. I usually actually become very immobile and want to hide under a blanket. Kind of like a bear. I hibernate.
BAHA I love your comments..hands down my favorite EVERY TIME! YES my ears are pierced..I could wear large feathers and shake my head like a peacock. I have been hibernating a lot, and then just got a random burst of “I MUST GET WILD” and that lasted maybe a day..but now I am stuck and need to run the race because I paid for it baha.
I signed up for a 10k one FRICKEN week after my marathon and…. I am highly regretting it. I am just going to run it for fun (and by run, I mean jog possibly walk depending on how recovery goes) so….
Just do what I am going to do! And then reward yourself with a hot bath, wine, and chococococolate.
I love when bloggers are just straight up honest about shit thats going on in their lives, it adds such a new level of relatability. I also love recipes with chocolate. So you really hit the nail on the head with this post
hah
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I want those cooookiesss! SO BAD. Too bad I haven’t baked in what feels like a decade! Hope you had/are having a great run!! And I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again – you got next week’s 10 run IN THE BAG!!!!! I wish I were closer to you so I could come watch and hold a sign “screw oranges, I’ve got candy corn!” – and hand you some candy corn for a little energy boost along the run
UGH you’re tellin me!! If you lived near by I would be at your place aLLLLaaA the time asking you to run, and bake treats with me..baha! The run went great today..GAH here I come 10miler!! YESS candy corn hahaha!
If I wasn’t in the process of baking cookies myself, I’d be incredibly jealous right now. As it is, I’ve got my own chocolate chip cookies in the oven, so
Mine weren’t really a spur of the moment kind of thing, though. I blame cold weather and needing something delicious to bring to a friend’s party. I’ve done some pretty crazy spur of the moment things tho, including getting piercings, cutting my hair, and getting in the car, hitting the highway, and driving until I was too tired to come back and had to find somewhere to stay the night. Just stay safe!
I can’t lie..the idea of hitting the road with no plan and finding somewhere to stay sounds scary, lonely, and EXHILARATING! I may have to try that sometime.
What else are friends for but support my friend
Oh and for sharing cookies so pass one
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
I ALWAYS chop my hair off after a phase of emotional uncertainty…. seriously, it’s like it’s super cleansing… get rid of all the negative, un-useful energy symbolised by cutting off hair? I DID do it Halle Berry Styles once too
It was pretty good, actually.
The joys of vegan baking = being able to eat raw cookie dough with abadon!
YEEEEEE HAW, ride em chocolate chips!!! Look at those crazy puppies! Looking like a little Mrs. Fields!
I haven’t had cookies in 10 years, how effing crazy is that!!!! About as crazy as the fact that I am meeting up with Denzel Washington tomorrow!! Maybe I should make him these cookies!!
Yum!!! I just made cookies too
Yayyyy for comfort food!
You are freaking adorable. i adore your blog, every part of it. actually i adore you! i honestly wish I could meet you in person because i can relate so much to everything you write. even though this is short and sweet, i want you to know I could write a whole shit ton about how amazing you are.
It’s comments like these that make me looveee this whole blogging thing!! I adore you just as much, and am so glad to have “met” you via blog land!!
Those cookies look amazing girl! I’m so behind on my blog reading… I just read your last post, and I didn’t decide to do dental hygiene until my Jr. year of college. I get to do lots of nutritional counseling in with dental hygiene. I love it. Seriously… e-mail me anytime! Have you thought about taking Micro at a community college in the summer? It is a bit easier to handle if you are taking it by itself.
I have actually taken ALL my prereq’s at a community college. I was going to take it alone and got two weeks into the course and had ZERO motivation. I was struggling with the idea of retaking it. I think I may just have to e-mail you sometime!! Thank you for that option!! I would LOVE to pick your brain!
Part of the reason I love blogging is because there are so many postive people here to support you. Those cookies are def for the win.
honesty always brings people back.
you should send me some of those cookies. 
It’s a great joy to see that your “spur” of the moment impulsivity is not too reckless, baking always makes me feel better:D
Those cookies (and the dough) look incredible! Sign me up for a care package of cookies too : ) Good luck with the 10 mile run. I am training for my half marathon in November. Can’t wait!
Yahoo!! You will do great!! It’s such a great accomplishment!
I want a cookie! or 10
I tend to go on spur of the moment shopping trips when feeling off. Retail therapy.
If you need to get rid of anymore, feel free to send some my way
These cookies look delicious.
I just found your blog
What race are you running next week?
A Halloween themed 10 miler!! I am really excited!!
I’ll bring the sun tan lotion, you bring the cookies….see ya on the island
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Those cookies look so good! I do the same thing whenever I bake…I have a bit of a problem around raw cookie dough :-p
I just read your last post and I definitely know what you’re going through! We’re the same age (well, I’ll be 23 on Wednesday but close enough) and I have absolutely no idea what I want to be when I grow up. I’m in a Master’s program so I should have it figured out by now, but I’m not even 100% sure if I’ll end up working in my field. Sigh – the trials of young-20 somethings.
Definitely appreciated your honesty though! It’s hard to blog stuff like that but you end up getting amazing support.
Thank you for the comment!! I have found comfort in the fact that there are SO many of us that are in the same boat!
I hope your getting life figured out and things will look up
They always do.
I will eat any cookie that promises to be chewy!
You’re making me hungry…which is really not good at this time of night!
haha
WHAT?! How in the flying fuck are these gorgeous cookies made without ingredients from animals?! I have never spotted such a gorgeous vegan concoction in pictures!!!!!!!!!
When I am thin again (December), I shall be making these for my celebration party. Or not. I might just live through the pictures. Or make a batch, eat three, dipped into unsweetened almond milk. Not sure yet.
Wow times 9 trillion.
Delicious.
Sharing on my facebook page now!!! WOW.
I will MAKE these for you!!! We must have a cookie feast..but only ONE or maybe TWO cookies per person. Then we cannot feel guilty. Or maybe I will eat your second one and call it good.
I do everything in odd numbers, so it must be either 1 or 3 for me!
Cookies make everything better, gorgeous girl. You’re on the right path. Trust. xx
MMMMMMMmmmmmm cookiesssss.
I loove making vegan cookies
Cookies make everything better 
These look fabulous. Want cookies, ASAP! I like the cinnamon apple sauce idea, as I have subbed apple sauce for fat in recipes, but never thought to do a flavored apple sauce. Can you pick up the cinnamon in the cookies at all?
Get to feeling better girly!
The cinnamon flavor is very faint..but YES it’s there..they WERE so good..WERE because they were definitely gone within two days..EEK!
oh my goodness. i need to make these immediately. yum.
Oooooh I want to see your new hair! And girl, you would rock the super short cut! Seriously! You have such pretty bone structure, you could pull it off! Also, those cookies look ah-mazing! Aaaaand I love you too!
My gosh you know how to make a girl blush!! Thank you for your sweet comment I adddooreee you so much!
I LOVE cutting off my hair when I’m feeling off. Or giving myself bangs. There’s really nothing more cathartic and wonderful than chopping it all to hell. I also like doing the dishes.
I love those cookies
Where and when would this party be? Can I bring anything?
Your cookies look so delightful & ooh so appetizing too! Yummm!