Vegan Ginger-Chocolate Cookies with an orange filling
These soft chocolate cookies with light ginger taste and a fruity orange filling are perfect to start the christmas season!
Servings: 25 cookies
Ingredients
- 200 g margarine or vegan butter soft
- 120 g white sugar
- 1 package vanilla sugar or aroma
- 1 tsp orange zest
- 4 tbsp ground flaxseeds
- 100 ml water
- 250 g flour
- 50 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 70 ml plantbased milk
- 20 g agave or rice syrup
- 40 g fresh ginger
- 100 ml water
- 1 orange
- 1 tbsp gelling sugar
Instructions
- Make the flax eggs: mix flaxseed with the water and let it rest for 10 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celcius or 356 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Wisk the soft vegan butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and orange zest to a creamy mass. Little by little add the flax eggs.
- Rub the fresh ginger into little pieces, cook it for 5 minutes with 50 ml water and then mix it with a mixer.
- Mix flour and cocoa powder and fold it carefully into the butter mass.
- Add vegan milk, agave syrup and ginger puree to the mass and fill it all into a piping bag. Form different cookies with a star-shaped noozle on a backing tray with a baking sheet. Bake the cookies in the oven for 8 minutes and then let them cool.
- For the orange filling cut the orange into little pieces and cook it slowly for 10 minutes together with 50 ml water and a tbsp gelling sugar. Then mix it in a mixer until it becomes a creamy jam.
- Fill the cold cookies with the orange jam and store them in an airthight container.