There’s nothing better than a batch of these vegan spiced chocolate chip cookies fresh out the oven on a cold autumn day! They’re soft and gooey on the inside with just the right amount of crunch.

These spiced cookies are full of chocolate chunks and warming autumn spices! What’s not to love?

The perfect autumn sweet treat. Not only are they irresistible warm out the oven they’re also great with a cup or tea, or coffee! And I’m all for a chocolate cookie as an afternoon treat!

What is a vegan cookie made of?

Making vegan cookies is so easy and it’s easy to swap out dairy for alternatives. Instead of butter we are going to use vegan butter (I tend to use Vitalite).

This gets whipped with light brown sugar until pale and fluffy. Next comes the arrowroot and water mix (or sub cornstarch) and vanilla essence. 

Once this is all mixed together it should be really smooth and thick. Next you’re going to add the spice mix, flour, baking powder and chocolate chunks/chips.

For the chocolate, simply use dark chocolate or you can sub for a vegan milk chocolate. 

What’s in the spice mix?

Only the best autumn spices of course! We’ve got cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg and allspice. Also known as pumpkin spice if you’re in America!

These spices mixed together give me all the cosy autumn feels. And when you add them to chocolate it’s a match made in cookie heaven.

If you’re wondering whether to use chocolate chips or chunks, I always use chocolate chunks. I find vegan chocolate chips don’t taste that nice and often have a rubbery texture.

I just use a good quality dark chocolate, usually 70% cocoa and cut this into chunks/chips (see pic below). Alternatively, you could use a vegan milk chocolate, white chocolate or a mix!

Once all the ingredients have been mixed together it’s time to roll the mixture into 16 golf shape sized balls. I use my hands for this, it’s much quicker and easier.

Divide the mixture into two, then each half into two again so you have four quarters. You can then make 4 cookies out of each quarter. 

Line two baking sheets and then place 8 cookies on each sheet. You want to leave space for them to spread or you’ll end up with one giant cookie!

With the oven at 180C/350F you want to bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, no longer. The cookies should still look quite soft and almost under baked. 

This is because they will continue to bake out the oven and you want them to still be chewy inside. So don’t be tempted to leave them in any longer!

If after a day or two they aren’t as chewy, just pop them in the microwave for about 20 seconds and they’ll soften up.

For more cookie recipes you may enjoy these:

Double chocolate chip peanut butter cookies

Chocolate chip salted caramel cookies

White chocolate and raspberry cookies

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