Vegan Chocolate Orange Brownie Cookies
Vegan chocolate orange brownie cookies with chocolate drizzle and real orange zest. These bakery style cookies are extra fudgy and thick, just like all good cookies should be!
Servings: 16
Ingredients
To make the cookies
- 300 g caster sugar
- 140 mls sunflower oil
- 100 mls almond / oat milk unsweetened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
- 1/2 tsp orange extract
- 300 g plain flour
- 80 g cocoa powder
- 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 140 g vegan orange chocolate *see notes
* To decorate
- 1 orange zested
- 40g orange chocolate melted
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk the caster sugar, oil, plant based milk, vanilla and orange extract.
- In a second bowl sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Add 1 tsp of orange zest.
- Roughly chop the orange chocolate into a mixture of small and larger chunks. Fold two thirds of the orange chocolate into the dry ingredients.
- Fold the wet mixture into the dry ingredients just until all the flour has been incorporated.
- Cover the bowl and chill the cookie dough in the fridge for 30 minutes. Line 2 baking trays with parchment paper.
- Form the cookie dough into 16 balls and place on the 2 baking trays. Slightly flatten the dough balls and top with the remaining chunks of orange chocolate.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/ fan 180°C / Gas 6.
- Place the balls of cookie dough in the freezer for 10 minutes to help them firm up. Then proceed to bake in the oven for 12 minutes, until the edges are firm and slightly crisp.
- Remove the cookies from the oven. Sprinkle over the remaining orange zest. Melt the remaining chocolate and drizzle over the cookies. Leave to cool and firm up for 5 minutes on the baking tray.
- Transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
Notes
Montezuma's vegan milk orange chocolate, sold in the UK, is a good dairy free substitute for milk chocolate orange (not sponsored!).