Vegan Pistachio Chocolate Chip Cookies

Vegan Pistachio Chocolate Chip Cookies

This plant-powered pistachio matcha cookie is on a delicious mission to bring awareness to our climate crisis. It's a good excuse to eat another, right?! :)

Vegan pistachio chocolate chip cookie by Chocolypse Baking

A combo of coconut oil, almond butter, and vegan semi-sweet chocolate chips replaces dairy and gives these cookies the brown buttery flavor, and bursts of rich chocolate we all can't get enough of in a chocolate chip cookie, butttt...... you'll be lowering your carbon footprint significantly. (The carbon footprint conversion for this butter alternative is 1.36 g CO2-eq/g, and that for dairy butter is 11.92 g CO2-eq/g. TF, right?!)

vegan pistachio chocolate chip cookies from Chocolypse Baking

This beauty is also naturally greenish from matcha powder! Saving our sealife and freshwater supply. (10-15% of food dyes are discharged as liquid waste into the environment, which turns toxic in concentrated quantities.)
Let's top this girl with roasted, nutty pistachios for real flavor instead of added flavoring because it tastes so much better! (I didn't have time to research added flavoring, but I'm sure info out there says it looks shady.)

Vegan Pistachio Chocolate Chip cookies from Chocolypse! Baking

These cookies don’t have all the answers and I’m not a scientist, but if you think about what’s happening on our planet on a large scale, you’ll see that we have this crazy imbalance. We’re all breathing, raising tons of animals for food, burning fossil fuels for energy, and all this is emitting gases that are not offset by our rainforests because we're cutting them down to raise more food. The outcome is a planet that is steadily increasing in temperature.

 

Work Cited: Heller, M.C. and G.A. Keoleian. 2014. Greenhouse gas emission estimates of U.S. dietary choices and food loss. Journal of Industrial Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12174

Ingredients

Makes 12 cookies

For the Cookies
1- Chocolypse! Salted Choco-Cyclone Cookie Mix (V)
1 TABLESPOON- Matcha Powder
1 TEASPOON- Almond Extract
3 TABLESPOONS- Filtered Water

Chopped, roasted pistachios as topping

 

Instructions

  1. Pre-heat oven to 350° F. Take out the two pouches from the Chocolypse! cookie mix packaging and find the one labeled #1 (Almond butter mix). Spoon out contents of pouch into a medium size mixing bowl.
  2. Add Matcha Powder, Almond Extract, and 3 tablespoons of filtered water and whisk until slightly thickened. About 30 seconds. 
  3. Stir in Pouch #2 (flour mix) with a flexible spatula or mixing spoon until there are no white flour streaks visible. I know it's fun, but try not to over mix! :)
  4. Roll dough into 10-12 balls, and place on non-stick or lightly greased baking sheet 1 inch apart. Flatten slightly, sprinkle pistachios on top and place on the oven's center rack. 
  5. Bake for 13-14 minutes or until edges have slightly hardened, but center is soft. For crispier cookies bake for 14-16 minutes.
  6. Cool completely on baking sheets before digging in. Enjoy!

 

 

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