the most delicious vegan carob chip cookies

Yay!  I love a productive weekend!  And it had been a very productive weekend here at the Upstairs Apartment.  Yesterday mum and I did mundo shopping and even attended a gong bath.  (Read up on it; it was an amazing experience!)
Today, I cleaned - and I mean CLEANED -  the library.  I arranged all the Ginge's wires and computer-y stuff and got my study area all set up and prepped.  I was too embarrassed of how to looked to take before pictures; sorry!  You'll just have to trust me that things look much better, now!
When I had finished with my cleaning spree, I decided I was hungry.  And not just any hungry.  Cookie Hungry.  I'm sure you can agree, this is a hunger to be taken seriously.  So, with the utmost severity I went through the cupboards and assembled the supplies (luckily, I had been planning on doing some culinary experimentation this weekend, so I had everything to hand).  Unfortunately, I couldn't find a suitable recipe anywhere.  You see, I didn't want to make just any cookies - I wanted carob-chip cookies, since I had just procured a nice stash from the health-food-store yesterday.  Soooo... I made up my own recipe.  Well, sort of.  I took a recipe from this vegan family cookbook I had interlibrary loaned and tweaked it. 
Here it is:

Ingredients:
21/2 c oats
1c whole wheat flour (I ended up dumping another half cup or cup in there to soak up some of the sogginess that resulted once everything was mixed together)
3/4tsp salt
1/2tsp baking soda
1/2c + 1tbs olive oil (the recipe called for margarine, but a part of me thinks that stuff is evil lol I wanted to experiment with a vegan dessert, not give myself cancer from a tub of non-food chemicals)
1/2 - 1c brown sugar
1/4c honey (or agave, depending on how you feel about the bee situation)
6tbs water
1/4c soymilk with about 1tbs lemon juice (again, the recipe called for "egg replacement powder" and I thought 'umm... that sounds gross)
1tsp vanilla
bag 'o' carob (or chocolate) chips

K. Recipe:
Preheat oven to 350

mix oats, flour, salt, and baking soda;










in separate bowl, mix oil, brown sugar, honey (or agave), water, egg replacement-soymilk-concoction, and vanilla. 

Combine the wet ingredients into the dry ones and mix thoroughly.  (This is where I found it was too goopy and added more flour to soak up some of the wet.)  Then toss those delicious chips in!

 

Drop onto cookie sheet and flatten ever-so-slightly.  Bake for about 15 minutes.

Enjoy with your favourite cuppa, or with a friend!

My poor helper was so tuckered out after all this, she had to go straight away and have a lie-down.

 The other two were also, inexplicably, tired.

I was so bolstered by my success, that I have decided to try out the black-bean burger recipe that I had pinned weeks ago and been meaning to get round to trying!  Well... Maybe I'll just have a little nap, first... ;)
What are some of your favourite recipes?
Oh!  And here are the links to the two main websites that I used in the conversion process.  Very helpful!!!
Ta, and happy baking!