Bike-friendly XXX Vegan Cookies

For the latest hot-ass recipe contribution from a Hot Knives associate, we tapped our sometime radio producer friend Meghan who has been busy baking cookies to raise money for a nutso bike tour she’s doing to raise money for an AIDS donation. Last time we hung with Meghan she was building her first road bike and still getting used to riding next to cars. Now she’s placing in Wolfpack biker races and riding upwards of 50 miles a day to train for her upcoming mission. We include her recipe for vegan chocolate death cookies as a gift to you all. Any words of encouragement or pledge dollars you can throw her way are whole-heartedly appreciated. Hot Knives will be making a contribution. Break a leg Meghan, show those Wolfpack fuckers how to bake! Take it away!
It’s amazing to think that just 7 or so months ago, I was too fearful to get on a bike at all, and now I’m pumped to ride all the way from San Francisco to Los Angeles for a great cause. Please donate what you can and forward my info to anyone you can think of. All the dough goes to the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center for HIV/AIDS services, including prevention and medication. Check out my page to donate or read.
This recipe makes a crapload of awesome cookies that are super moist and may be addictive. (Vegan cookie porn photos courtesy of Gary Kavanagh)
Meghan D’s Triple Chocolate Death

2 1/2 tbsp ground flax seeds
1 cup soymilk
4 cups sugar
1 1/2 cup canola oil
4 tsp vanilla
4 cups flour
1 1/2 cup cocoa powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3/4 cup cocoa nibs
2 cups vegan chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix the soymilk and flax seeds together in a blender, pulse and set aside.
3. In one mixing bowl, stir together the sugar, oil and vanilla.
4. In a separate bowl, sift together the dry ingredients, the flour, coco powder, baking soda and salt (leaving out the chips and nibs)
5. Bit by bit, stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, both the blender of soy-flax and the bowl of sugary vanilla goo. Add more flour if the batter seems to sticky/runny.
6. Mix in the nibs and chips finally.
7. Now, form the cookies into pinball-sized shapes on a baking sheet and then smoosh them down so they’re more like disks. Place them on a slightly greased (canola oil or cooking spray or Earth Balance) cookie sheet.
8. Bake ’em 12 minutes.
Beverage: Chilled, organic unsweetened soymilk
Soundtrack: Tomorrow’s “White Bicycle”