Best Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies: Chewy, Soft and VEGAN!!

What you will love about these cookies: chewy, soft, chocolaty and sweet, high in protien (7 grams of protien per cookie!), contains no eggs, dairy, cholesterol,or gluten!  The secret flour is gram flour (a.k.a besan flour) which is made from ground chickpeas.  You can easily find gram flour at your local indian food store or international market.  I promise you will no one will ever guess these are gluten free.  Honestly, it would be shameful of me not to share this recipe.  Here goes:

Ingredients:
3/4 cup raw sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup vegan margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla
approximately 1/3 cup applesauce (enough to equal 1 egg)
2 1/4 cups gram flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1-12oz bag vegan semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions:

Heat oven to 370 Fahrenheit.

Beat sugars, margarine, vanilla, and applesauce together in a large bowl

Stir in gram flour, baking soda, and salt. (Dough will be somewhat stiff).

Stir in chocolate chips.

Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto a cookie sheet. Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until light brown.

Cool.

Enjoy!

Serves: 3 dozen

Preparation time: 10 minutes

 Helpful Hints:

• If baking multiple batches, keep dough in fridge while each batch is baking.  Warm dough makes flat cookies!
•  If you like unbaked cookie dough,( like my husband does) you'll be surprised to find that gram flour has a slightly bitter taste before being cooked.  It reminded me of sprouted hummus that has not been blanched.  After they're cooked however, they taste exactly like wheat based cookies, even better because they retain chewiness even after freezing.
• Try freezing some and putting them in your child's lunchbox for a high protien dessert!