

When a girlfriend spoils you with your favourite chocolate bars, you make double chocolate cookies. It’s just what you do. No questions asked.
The other day I realized that I don’t have many nut-free cookie recipes on the blog. Sure, my most popular Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies are nut-free, but there really isn’t much else that I could think of. In the name of comfort food and all things right on this blog, I decided to create the perfect crispy-on-the-edge-chewy-in-the-middle gooey double chocolate chunk cookie – free of nuts!
Heck yes.
Behold. That cookie.
Some fun facts about these cookies…
~ virgin coconut oil replaces the need for butter
~ they are made with whole grain oat flour (and are gluten-free when using GF oats)
~ as I mentioned, these are nut-free!
~ recipe contains small amount of ground flax for some extra nutrition and a (cheap!) egg replacer
~ rich, gooey, crispy around the edges
~ satisfies the most intense chocolate craving
~ husband approved!
~ it’s a one bowl recipe. I even made the flax egg in the same bowl to save dishes.
I’m not messing around here. No sir-ee.
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One Bowl Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Yield
1 dozen large cookies
Prep time
Cook time
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Gooey, rich, double chocolate cookies made with whole grain oat flour. These will satisfy your every chocolate craving and then some! This recipe is adapted from my Crispy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Ingredients
Wet ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon ground flax mixed with 3 tablespoons water
- 1/4 cup virgin coconut oil (do not melt)
- 1/4 cup sunflower seed butter (see note)
- 1/3 cup unpacked brown sugar
- 1/3 cup natural cane sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Dry Ingredients:
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1.5 cups gluten-free rolled oats, processed into flour (or 1.5 cups oat flour)
- 1-2 teaspoons non-dairy milk (only if needed to moisten batter)
- 100 grams finely chopped dark chocolate (1 chocolate bar)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large mixing bowl, mix together the flax and water and set aside for a few minutes so it can thicken up. Whisk the flax egg again once thickened.
- Add the rest of the wet ingredients into the bowl with the flax egg (coconut oil, sunflower seed butter, brown sugar, cane sugar, and vanilla). With a hand-held electric mixer, beat the ingredients until combined and smooth.
- Now, beat in the dry ingredients, one by one, as you go down the ingredient list (baking soda, baking powder, salt, cocoa powder, oat flour). If your dough is a bit dry, add a teaspoon (or two) of non-dairy milk and beat the mixture again. The dough should be moist enough to form balls without cracking, but not super sticky.
- Finely chop the chocolate (it should be the size of peas). Beat the chocolate into the batter or simply stir by hand.
- Shape balls of dough (about the size of a golf ball or 2 heaping tablespoons) and place on the baking sheet 2-3 inches apart. Gently press down on each ball with your hand to form a disc (it should be 1/2-inch thick or so).
- Bake for about 12-13 minutes (I baked for 13 mins) until the cookies are spread out nicely.
- Cool cookies on the baking sheet for 7 minutes or so and then transfer to a cooling rack for another 10-15 minutes.
Tip:
- Instead of sunflower seed butter, you can try peanut or almond butter (this means they will no longer be nut-free, of course)
- To bring out the chocolate flavour even more, try sprinkling the cookies with a tiny amount of flaked sea salt before going into the oven.
To make this recipe soy-free, use a soy-free chocolate such as Enjoy Life brand.
Nutrition Information
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The Oh She Glows Cookbook Virtual Blog Tour
I’m excited to let you know that The Oh She Glows Cookbook Virtual Blog Tour kicked off yesterday! A big thanks to all the wonderful bloggers who are participating, making recipes, and sharing the book with others. I’ll be linking to blogger reviews as they come in, so keep your eyes peeled. You can also find all the reviews on my Book page (the list will be updated frequently). Be sure to check out their posts for some cookbook recipes and sneak peak photos of the book!
Here are the reviews that have come in so far:
Kristina @ Spa Bettie (review + recipe)
Lisa @ Vegan Culinary Crusade (review + recipe)
Megan @ Detoxinista (review + recipe)
McKel @ Nutrition Stripped (review)
Jordan @ The Blonde Vegan (review, recipe, interview)
Social Media
Many of you have been sharing social media pictures of the OSG cookbook in local bookstores, as it arrives in the mail, and recipes you’ve already made (keep in mind most retailers haven’t shipped yet, but Indigo is shipping early! Most books will ship on March 4th). So much fun. Please keep sharing your photos on twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest using the hashtag #osgcookbook and also tag @ohsheglows #ohsheglows so others can see what you’re making too. Thanks again for all your excitement and support!!
Last but not least, I’ve been asked for a Sketchie update. Thanks for your comments, personal stories, and thoughts about Sketchie in my last post, by the way. The surgery went well and he has been at the vet’s clinic under their supervision for a couple nights. Miss him greatly!! It’s amazing how many times during the day I go to do things “for Sketchie” only to realize he’s not home! I’m picking him up this afternoon though. Fingers crossed he is in good spirits and doesn’t hate me!








Wow, these are the PERFECT cookie! I was craving something sweet last night and these were perfect and came together so quickly with all ingredients I had around! It was kind of late and I didn’t want to be super loud so my oats didn’t get pulsed all they way and were still a bit chunky, but that gave the cookies amazing texture… will definitely make these 100 more times!
These cookies are absolutely incredible. I knew the baked cookies would turn out great, after I found myself unable to stop eating the batter. I’m making my second batch now, because the first ones were eaten up so fast! Thank you SO MUCH!
just made these cookies and they’re soooo good!
i subbed cane sugar with coconut sugar and used crunchy peanut butter instead of sunflower seed butter and oooooh myyyy gooooosh i’m drooling.
but, to my question: can you freeze these once they’re baked?
also, thanks for the recipe! as a newbie-vegan these are simply incredible and they’re SO much better than regular chocolate chip cookies if i do say so myself ;)
These are amazing. Thank you for the recipe.
Mmmmmmm I just made these! YUM!
So delicious, love that it’s straightforward! Thank you!
Every time I get a craving for cookies, I always come back to this recipe. They are sooo good!
Awesome cookies. My boys, nephews and nieces were drooling and so excited when they’d finally ate them. Delicious!
Those are the best “healthy” cookies I have ever made and tasted. I find however they are so bloody sticky when making, is it normal or I am doing something wrong!?
I made these at the weekend and they are without a shadow of a doubt the best vegan cookies I have tried to date (insert heart eyed emoji) They are so decedent and chocolately its hard to believe they are vegan, I have only recently started a plant based diet and these don’t make the move so bad :) Thank you Oh She Glows!!!
Just made these with a few modifications and they were fantastic!
1. I used just over 1/4 cup for the sunflower and coconut butter
2. I used 1/3 cup coconut sugar and sucanat
Definitely making these again!
These were amazing! I made them with almond butter and didnt need to use any soy milk. SO rich and perfectly chewy. The first succes Ive had with any glutenfree vegan recipe.
Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing
I just made a TRIPLE BATCH of these for the first time ever today! I’m bringing them to a vegan/vegetarian potluck at my Uni. for the WWF club social! I also made some substitutions to the recipe and it worked out great! I like baking oil free, so I swapped the oil for organic apple sauce, and the sunflower seed butter for natural peanut butter. So this recipe could be gluten, nut, oil free and vegan! CRAZY GOOD. I had to add the additional table spoons of milk (I used unsweetened almond) but then baked ’em up and they turned out amazing!
Just made these and they turned out so delicious!!! Thank you!
Thank you for including instructions on sizing the dough as it’s placed on the cookie sheet. So free recipes have that. It’s really helpful!
could I freeze the batter then bake them for a little longer later? I want to bake a few of your recipes to make my boyfriend a vegan hamper for valentines, and it’d be a lot easier if I could make the batter in advance rather than the day before? If so, how much longer should I bake them for?
I made these on a whim last night and I’m so glad I did! I was short on a couple ingredients, but it didn’t mater. Instead of flax (I basically never have this on-hand), I combined 1/4 banana with baking powder. Worked great! I also didn’t have a chocolate bar, so I used 1/3 c cocoa powder. They were so gooey and delicious! Thank you!
This cookies were amazing, my hubby adored them and ate three as soon as they were out of the oven. I subbed coconut sugar for brown sugar simply because I had none in the house and they turned out perfect. Thanks for a fab recipie
Great, easy recipe! These cookies are delicious. I am entering them into a cookie bakeoff at work today and all my taste testers agree this is a delicious cookie!
Hi Sean, I’m so happy to hear you and your testers like the cookies. Good luck at the bake off!!
These are SO good! I am not even vegan but I love all of these healthy recipes and desserts!
Hi April, it’s so great to hear that! Thanks for the comment. :)
I’m currently on my second breakfast cookie!! These were amazing. I also added a half cup of chunky peanut butter to merge this recipe with your other one. I cheated a bit and used an egg and butter alongside the coconut oil. The results were awesome!
Yum! Glad you enjoyed the cookies, Niamh.