3-2-1 Cookies!

Update 2014-03-20: Canonical page for my recipes is now here:
http://kosmokaryote.org/wiki/recipes

Update 2013-12-29: Christmas Variant

Hello, cookie

I think I blogged about my cookie recipe before, but that was before, and now is now!  People have asked for it, so I am posting it here.  They are called 3-2-1 cookies, because that is how I remember the half-cup quantities of the core ingredients.

It's most recent evolution of ingredients are:

• 3 half-cups of whole wheat flour (or split with rolled oats),
• to make it double-chocolate, use 2 half-cups of flour and 1 half-cup cocoa.
• 2 half-cups of brown sugar,
• 1 half-cup of vegan margarine (Becel Vegan brand, or Earth Balance),

• Egg substitute
• 2 tablespoons of flax meal mixed well with 5 tablespoons of water,
• or ½ cup of apple sauce, or a banana, or ½ cup of pumpkin purée
• 2 half-cups of chocolate chips (Selection brand has no dairy component. Having a copious amount is Important),
• 1 cap-full of vanilla extract (like one teaspoon).

Steps:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C.
2. (For flax meal: Mix with water and let it sit separately until step 5.)
3. Cream the sugar and the margarine (mix them until creamish).
4. Mix in half the flour.
5. Mix in the egg substitute to add moisture (allegedly binds)
6. Mix in the remaining flour.
7. Add vanilla (bonus moisture) and then the chocolate chips.
8. Mix, mix, mix, and hopefully it will become a big shiny clump in your mixing bowl with a thousand chocolatey eyes.  Don't leave a chip unattached!
9. Apply to baking pan (potentially greased; I use a pizza pan and bake one Giant Cookie)
10. Bake for 8 minutes (this is for my oven, my father's oven with a similar recipe takes like 15 minutes!) for soft, delicious cookie.  
11. Let cool to allow them to solidify a little.

In New Zealand, I had preparation time down to 7 minutes from opening the pantry door to sliding the tray into the oven.  I was aiming for 0 minutes so I could call them instacookies.

Bonus: Cookie Cups

So, the other day I tried to make cookie cups:  you bake cookies with a muffin pan so you can scoop ice cream into them!  Patrick Beja of the Internet even suggests setting the dough around the outside of the muffin pits (on the bottom of the muffin sheet) so that they cup around the metal to get cookie bowls.

I had a couple with my dark chocolate coconut bliss ice cream and I'm thinking of designing my next dietary change around it. :D 

Update: 2012-02-21
Added notes about egg substitutes other than flax meal, and added point on how to make the recipe "double chocolate".