Homemade Vegan

Milk & Cookies

Recipe

Vegan & Gluten-Free

Makes 24 small cookies and 4 cups milk

 

There’s nothing more rewarding than making your own plant based milk from scratch and dipping fresh baked cookies into your glass. Plant milks are so easy to find these days on the shelf, but what’s inside that oat or almond milk might surprise you. The best, most nourishing food is always going to be what you can make from whole foods, with minimal processing and no chemical preservatives and thickeners.

Here’s our go-to nut milk recipe, served up with our favorite cookie, the Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie.

Nut Milk Ingredients:

1 cup of nuts (raw almond, macadamia, or cashew)

2 - 3 cups filtered water

Optional: 1 - 2 dates, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract

Soaked Raw Almonds

1. Soak raw nuts in water overnight or for at least 4 hours.

2. Blend water and soaked nuts on high until smooth

Pouring milk into nutmilk bag to strain

3. Pour milk into nut-milk bag to strain out fiber

4. Wash your hands and squeeze out the milk into a clean bowl or jar.

5. Store milk in a large mason jar with a lid in the fridge for up to 4 days.

Directions:  

  1. Soak nuts in water overnight or for at least 4 hours, to soften and release the enzyme inhibitors, making the nut easier on digestion, and easier to blend smoothly. For 1 cup of nuts, use 3 cups of water or more.

  2. Rinse and strain out the water. Add soaked nuts to a high speed blender.

  3. Add 2 - 3 cups of filtered water (less water for thicker milk), and any additional flavors (dates, vanilla or cinnamon)

  4. Blend on high until smooth.

  5. Wash your hands and place a nut milk bag or cheese cloth over a large wide mouth mason jar. Poor liquid into the nut milk bag, filling it about a quarter or third full. Twist and squeeze out liquid into the jar and save or discard the *nut pulp.

  6. Repeat until all the milk has been strained out. Store in a jar with a lid in the fridge for about 4 days.

    *nut pulp can be added to cookie and cracker recipes in place of any nut flour. It will have a bit more texture than these flours.

CHECK OUT THIS CUTE VIDEO OF LAURA AND CLEO MAKING NUT MILK!

Now that the Milk is done, it’s time for the cookies. Check out our Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe here:

ULTIMATE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE (VEGAN/GLUTEN FREE)