I seriously think that sometimes you need to fail in order to really succeed.
That may sound really deep, but actually that’s just what happened to me.
I was hell-bent on making a fluffy eggless angel food cake. I’ve made one before, but the recipe I had scrawled down just wasn’t working this time around.
I made like four failure loaf cakes and then gave up.
It was tragic.
I was at my wit’s end.
I decided to make cookies and made alllll my friends cross their fingers that they would succeed.
(They kinda totally did).
I had set out to make thin, chewy chocolate chip cookies to make into sandwich cookies. My cookies didn’t spread (usually a good thing) and I came out with little balls of cookie.
They were not the right shape.
But they were absolutely delicious.
So, you know, I dipped them in chocolate and sprinkled them with more because you can never fail with chocolate. And they’re phenomenal. Sweet and chewy cookies coated in velvety chocolate? What’s not to love?
- 2¼ cups all purpose flour
- ½ cup (= 1 stick) vegan butter
- ¼ cup canola oil
- ¼ cup vegan cream cheese
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup cane sugar
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- salt to taste
- 1 cup vegan chocolate chips
- ½ cup vegan white chocolate chips, divided
- 7 oz vegan dark chocolate
- Beat vegan butter and vegan cream cheese with an electric beater until combined.
- Add in sugars, oil, and vanilla and beat until fluffy.
- Add cornstarch, flour, baking soda, and salt and mix until just combined.
- Lastly, add all your chocolate chips and most of your white chocolate chips (reserve ~2 tbsp)
- Form the dough into balls, store in a sealed tupperware, and chill for 4 hours in the fridge or overnight.
- Preheat your oven to 350 F and like two baking trays with parchment paper.
- Line up cookie dough balls on each sheet and bake (one tray at a time) for 9 minutes.
- Let cool completely on a wire rack.
- Melt your dark chocolate in a microwave safe bowl at 30 second intervals.
- Using the reserved white chocolate chips, blitz the chips in a food processor on the 'chop' setting until resembling a powder.
- Roll the cookie balls in the chocolate and place on parchment paper- lined baking trays.
- Sprinkle with white chocolate and freeze until set.
*adapted from these
I love successful failures! I just recently tried to make a giant cinnamon roll that turned out more like a cake 🙂 I embraced it!
That’s the way to go! 🙂
Recipe fails can be such a pain! But in the ended you ended up with these delicious Bon bons! You can never go wrong with chocolate.
Totally 🙂 Thanks!
These look amazing! Love that they are vegan. The vegan cream cheese from trader joes looks amazing!
It’s so good! 🙂
These look delicious and yes… sometimes failing at things is actually really beneficial to success. It is the key even!
Love that they look like a naughty treat, yet they are so dang healthy. 🙂
Ooooh not gonna lie, they’re a bit of a naughty treat, what with all the cream cheese/chocolate/sugar but shhhh pretend I didn’t say that 🙂
Double chocolate AND vegan?? These are amazing! I know that I would love thes. They are the perfect little dessert for when you are craving something sweet but don’t want to eat too much 🙂
Exactly! They’re super rich so one is enough 🙂
These bon bons look amazing! I think I would devour the whole batch in one sitting, they’re just too cute!
Thanks, Gayle 🙂
Aw i love these cookie bon bons! I am so glad you persevered and its so nice to know I’m not the only one who has recipe fails in the kitchen. Gorgeous!
You definitely are not alone!
Oh my, these are so cute! You’re a genius. 🙂
Aw thanks!
These are beyond adorable! I love all the chocolate-on-chocolate goodness going on. I need like 10 of these right now!
Shipping them over 🙂
Chocolate makes everything better, right!? And these bon bons look so cute–I love that they’re vegan!
Thanks so much 🙂
Ohh girl, these look amazing! I could eat alll of these for lunch : )
Thanks!
Never used vegan cream cheese, but these look beautiful and extremely delicious! Pinning to a couple of boards !
Thanks, Mira! It’s my favorite ‘vegan’ imitation product, and I don’t usually like those.
Mmm so yummy looking! And I can’t believe they are vegan, they look too tasty! 🙂
Trust me to make vegan food unhealthy 🙂
So happy when recipes turn out into better than we expected. These look like such irresistible little bites! Love the double chocolate and that they’re vegan!
Thanks, Kelly! They’re great 🙂
I absolutely love that you’ve called these chocolate chip bonbons, Medha. What a lovely happy ‘accident’!
Thanks, Helen 🙂
I love an accidentally delicious surprise! They are so cute and you found yet another use for your vegan white chocolate chips! It’s a win-win!
The white choc chips are a gift that keeps on giving 🙂
I can’t believe these are vegan and I’m so happy that you decided to share this “accident,” which I don’t think is an accident at all! Pinned!
Thanks for the pin!
These look great!! and way better than an fluffy eggless angel food cake. 😛
Thanks, Alice! Maybe one day I’ll perfect that recipe, but that day is not today 🙂
These are absolutely delicious!!!!! Have been feasting on them. Yummmmmm!!!!!
🙂
Well, how delicious do these look! I am not sure I could stop at just one though!
They’re addicting 🙂
I agree with Alice – I’d take these over the angel food cake any day! 🙂
Aw thanks 🙂
These are my absolute favourite!! Real yum!! I’ll make them next time :*
LMK how it goes if you do! 🙂
These look so unbelievably tasty!
Thank you!
Love when an “accident” turns out to have a happy ending! Cause chocolate is definitely a happy ending 🙂 These look so good!
Thanks!
Sorry about the failures, but these little bon bons look like a huge success! There’s definitely nothing here that wouldn’t love — these look delicious!
They totally are! 🙂
These look so delicious Medha! and recipe failures are awful, too many things have gone into my dustbin but I’m glad you turned the cookies into these! Chocolate for the rescue always! 🙂
Chocolate is always the answer 🙂
These look & sound delicious too, and I totally hear ya on the failed angel food cake — so frustrating when that happens! #thingsthatkeepmeupatnight I hope you figure it out sometime. The elusive vegan Angel Food Cake is still on my hit list…
That fluffiness just demands eggs, ugh!
What a delicious mistake!
🙂
OH my gosh I love that your “fail” turned into such yumminess! Failing at a recipe is so frustrating sometimes, but these look like a total win! Pinning 🙂
Thanks so much!
I’m not sure that I’ve seen cane sugar or cornstarch much in a cookie recipe. What kind of difference does it make in the cookie taste/texture? I had never thought to make chocolate chip bon bons before! I love that you could turn a fail into a win win! 🙂 These are definitely on my “to-do” list. Great recipe!
Hi Heather! So cornstarch really helps to create a dense and chewy cooking and in vegan baking, it’s great to bind the cookie together (in place of an egg). In terms of cane sugar, I just liked that it wasn’t a refined, processed sugar (which can sometimes be non-vegan), but personally I haven’t found much of a taste difference in baking between refined white sugar and cane sugar. Other sugars, like turbinado and coconut and brown, definitely do taste different, though!