Chocolate chip cookies with ginger

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Kate was asking for a recipe for vegan choc. chip cookies with ginger. I used honey and an egg in the following recipe, but it should work to modify it a little and make it vegan. By the way, THIS recipe is a modified version of "Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies" from Ginny Callan's Beyond the Moon Cookbook. The vegan choc. chip cookie recipe in Tanya Barnard's and Sarah Kramer's How it All Vegan would also be an excellent candidate for the ginger experiment.

 

Something like this:

 

--1/2 cup oil

--about 1 cup of maple syrup or maybe something a little thicker, like Lyle's Golden Syrup

--1 tablespoon soy flour, plus 1 tablespoon water (egg substitute)

-- a tablespoon or so of vanilla extract

-- 3/4 cup unbleached white flour

--1 cup whole wheat pastry flour

--2 cups rolled oats

--1/2 teaspoon baking soda

--1/8 tsp. salt

--1 cup chocolate chips

--1/2 cup nuts (if you like nuts)

-- either an inch-sized chunk of fresh ginger, grated, OR about 1/4-1/3 cup candied ginger

--- it never hurts to add some shredded coconut, if you like shredded coconut

 

Mix the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients (except for chips and nuts) separately. Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Drop dough onto oiled cookie sheets and bake at 350 for about 15 minutes.