Midnight Baking: Vegan Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

You can't get more comforting than a batch of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. It's kind of generic, in the best of ways but I guess it's because there is no right cookie. Everyone has the creative liberty to make them their way and if that way does not go to plan, you can call it rustic and it's fixed. Sometimes, when I make a batch of chocolate chip cookies, I feel like I can't share them on the blog because they're so common, and most people already have their go to cookie recipe, either engrained in their minds or on a much stained and worn page of a cookbook. I don't want people to feel like I'm harassing them with my cookie recipes, so a lot of the time, I stay quiet, most likely with a cookie in my mouth to keep me that way, never mind how good that particular batch was.

These, however, I feel are a little unique. First of all, from start to finish, they took no longer than 25 minutes for me to physically have a warm cookie in hand, while wiping the countertops clean. Second, they happen to be free from everything healthy foodies seem to think are bad these days. (I lie, there's some sugar in there but that can easily be replaced with coconut palm sugar).

Last night, while watching a Friends re-run for the millionth time, my friend and I, (the same friend that convinced me to do some late night baking last week) sprawled across the couch, realised we had all the ingredients for this recipe, and despite it edging close to 1am, we suddenly found a burst of energy that Chandler and Monica hadn't been able to bring out of us, and we were up cracking our eggs and licking the cookie dough bowl clean before we could even hear the next Friends joke.

So, I encourage you, to try these when you're in need of a chocolate chip cookie, we all are in need of one once in a while, and who can blame us? They're a lot healthier than you're average Tollhouse recipe (I am NOT dissing Tollhouse, they were the essence of my childhood) and they are just so so quick to make. (So quick, in fact that my oven hadn't even pre-heated by the time I'd scooped my dough onto my baking trays).

Since it was just the two of us I froze half of the cookie dough for a rainy day when I might need my cookie fix.

*We adapted this foolproof recipe from Yammie's Glutenfreedom.