{Baking @ Home} ~ Christmas Cranberry Chocolate Chip {Vegan} Cookies

My cranberry chocolate chip cookies I have made

are very crumbly, while delicious and 

I thought I would try a different way....

I went back to the original recipe...

from this cookbook: Betty Crocker's New Christmas Cookbook...

while this cookbook is a 'mass market one' I can't help

feeling that it is very personal...like the author of the recipe

talking right to you as it were.... 

I used vegan margarine and an egg replacer.

I was talking to my Grandma last week and 

telling her how I made my Christmas Chai with

my coffee grinder (will do a blog post on that in the next weeks

I hope!) and she said she uses her food process to chop cranberries.

Genius I thought and did the same!!! 

Mixed up the dough with egg replacer, 

added cranberries coarsely chopped and vegan chocolate chips...

I could tell the batter was great as it was 'thicker' as it were...

I don't worry as much about having my cookies look 'neat' as it were... 

They turned out well!

I think I will try to make four batches of these next year,

what you see here is two batches done in 1 batch... 

All these cookies are now in the freezer to get out later this week

for St. Nicholas day!

Some of them were enjoyed earlier for a Ladies Tea I did...

and they were quite enjoyed! 

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Edited in 2018 to add this picture with baking times:

10-15 minutes @ 375F! I do mine about 12 minutes or so.