If you don't have or deal with food allergies, you probably aren't as excited for Soy Free Egg Free Chocolate Chip Cookies as I am. Let me tell you, when you have a two year old with a bunch of food allergies, including soy, it's a challenge to give her something equivalent to the yummy treats her brother is eating. I mean, he was already eating all this good stuff before she was born, so I can't take it away now, right? Hot topic. Some people think yes, take it all out of the house. I can't bring myself to do it, so instead I take on the ridiculous task of trying to replicate everything he eats into an allergy friendly form (ie: Allergy Friendly Cheez It).
If you're unfamiliar with soy allergies, just know, it sucks. Soy is in EVERYTHING! Breads, cookies, crackers, chocolate, candy, spices, broth you name it, there's a chance it contains soy. Our allergist informed us when she was diagnosed that most people with soy allergies are okay to consume soybean oil and soy lecithin. For us unfortunately, that is not true. We have found while she is okay to consume small amounts of soybean oil, she is certainly NOT okay ingesting soy lecithin. Unfortunately, this is a huge pain, because soy lecithin does not have to be specifically mentioned as an allergy at the bottom of ingredient lists. You can imagine how long my grocery shopping takes, reading every ingredient on every item I buy. It's tedious.
Last week I shared with you Allergy Friendly Banana Cookies which were good, but Nora would not touch. I think the missing ingredient was chocolate. The tough part of baking allergy friendly cookies is finding a chocolate chip that is soy free. I have found the Enjoy Life
chips work best for my recipes.
I scoured the internet for egg free chocolate chip cookies (figured I could easily adapt to soy free by using the soy free chips) but a lot of them had a ton of weird ingredients I have never heard of, so I passed. I finally found one over on Bunch of Cooks that was close to what I was looking for. It still didn't sound exactly to my liking, so I used that as my base recipe and made a few of my own changes, including adding Coconut Oil
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I'm happy to report that this one was winner! Whenever I decide to adapt a recipe, I'm always fearing that I should have just stuck to the original, but I absolutely loved these. All of us enjoyed them, not just the one with the allergy! But she was over the moon!
FOR DAIRY ALLERGY: Instead of using butter, use Earth Balance Dairy/Soy Free Buttery Spread
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Soy Free Egg Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ C butter or dairy/soy free butter substitute
- â…“ C white granulated sugar
- ½ C brown sugar
- 1 ½ C flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 T coconut oil melted
- 1 C allergy free chocolate chips Enjoy Life or similar I used mini chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350
- Using a stand mixer with paddle attachment cream together butter and sugars.
- Add in flour and baking soda. Don't worry if the mixture looks too dry.
- Add vanilla and coconut oil and continue to cream together for another 2-3 minutes.
- Stir in, by hand, the chocolate chips.
- Using a small scoop, measure out balls of dough and place on non stick cookie sheet.
- Bake 9-10 minutes. They may not look totally done, that's okay. Leave them on baking sheet for 5 minutes to firm up and then transfer to wire cooling racks.
Kelly says
My kid is was super lactose intolerant when he was little, he's mostly outgrown it now. That was tough enough for us, I couldn't imagine the difficulty in trying to avoid soy - you're right, it's absolutely everywhere.
That said, these cookies look good enough to eat no matter what you can or can't have!
foodyschmoody says
Oh Kelly, I'm glad to hear that your little guy has outgrown that. It must have been such a relief. It is difficult, but as I remind myself on tough days, things could always be worse. I think once she's old enough to understand it will be easier. Thanks for coming over.
Jamie @ Coffee With Us 3 says
My friend has twins that are terribly allergic to a milk protein. I know it used to take her a long time to shop as well, since there are like 60 different names that can be used to say there's milk in things. And while they're not allergic to soy, most soy is calcium fortified, so she couldn't use that either. However, she's been at it for maybe 5-6 years now, and it's become a way of life, and they really don't even think anything of it. Her girls are old enough now that they know things they can and can't have, and if they're not sure, they don't eat it. So just a little positive thought- it really will get better in that respect! Pinning!
Joanne T Ferguson says
G'day! I have never tried Soy cookies before, but these so Soy good! 🙂
Cheers! Joanne
foodyschmoody says
They are actually soy free cookies, not soy cookies, lol. My daughter has a terrible allergy to soy and soy lecithin is found is most cookies.
Kenneth Goh says
You always have a very nice recipe with great picture. Actually, I am not aware that there are soy intolerant cases and I hope that you will not need to prepare these cookies soon..Thanks for sharing with 4 seasons blog hop. Pinned and have a nice day.
Mel says
I am very excited about those, I can make them for my allergy baby! With her range of allergies (check out my blog if you are interested, I have recipes too: http://www.lecoindemel.com), I am struggling to find recipes I can use without having to alter them extensively. I found you through Elaine's Linky and will now follow your blog! Mel #AllergyFreeSimpleRecipes
foodyschmoody says
Great, thanks so much for making your way over here Mel. I will definitely come by and check out your stuff too. Us allergy moms sure have a struggle, don't we. Great to connect with you.
Elaine Livingstone says
these look yummy, and I could make them dairy free and gluten free. Thank you for linking up.