I loved watching “Insecure” throughout its six-season run.

The most intriguing food I watched the characters eat in the show were some cookies they made in one of the last episodes: chocolate chip with Doritos baked in. I love a good snack that blends the sweet and the salty.

I decided to run with that and make them vegan and gluten-free. I even found some vegan nacho tortilla chips!

This recipe will make roughly 14 big cookies. I was a little worried that making them as big as I did would turn them into one giant cookie in the oven, but these are honestly the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever made, and some of the best I’ve ever eaten. Who knew that vegan nacho chips were the secret ingredient?

If you enjoy cookies that have a little bit of a crunch on the outside but are soft and a little gooey on the inside, these are perfect for you.

Ingredients
0.5 cups margarine or dairy-free butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons cane sugar
0.25 cups almond milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1.75 cups 1-to-1 gluten-free flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup vegan, gluten-free chocolate chips
0.5 cups vegan nacho chips, crushed

Instructions
Cream the butter, brown sugar and cane sugar together in a bowl or stand mixer. Then add the almond milk and vanilla extract and cream more.

Add the flour and baking soda until a dough starts to form. (I will note that many common cookie recipes will add salt here. However, since these cookies have salty chips in them, I omitted any raw salt from the dough.)

Mix in the chocolate chips and crushed nacho chips.

Chill the dough for 30 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 350°F and grease a couple baking sheets.

Scoop the dough into balls and place them on the baking sheet and bake them for 12-15 minutes. If you make smaller cookies, you will want to reduce the cooking time.

Remove them from the oven and let them sit on the hot baking sheet for 5 additional minutes, then let the cookies cool on a baking rack.

Enjoy a cookie or two (or three or four) and a glass of your favorite plant-based milk – or a nice glass of rosé – with an episode of “Insecure.”

The Easy Route
Finding simple chocolate chip cookies is easy, whether you go to a convenience store, bakery or grocery store. But the chips in the cookies will be hard to find pre-made.

One thing you can do to make this recipe a bit easier is buy pre-made chocolate chip cookie dough then either stir in some broken chips or top the cookies with broken chip bits.

The Pairing
If you haven’t seen “Insecure” yet, please fix that ASAP.

The show follows Issa Dee (Issa Rae) as she navigates life as a Black woman in her 20s in Los Angeles, showing the ups and downs in her career, love life and friendships.

The show starts with Issa in a long-term relationship that has gone a little stale with Lawrence (Jay Ellis).

There are also side plots with Issa’s best friends from college, Molly (Yvonne Orji), Kelli (Natasha Rothwell) and Tiffany (Amanda Seales).

The ups and downs of the friendship between Issa and Molly are one aspect of the show that pulled me in. While the show does center on Issa, their friendship is the heart of the show, and we get a peek at some of Molly’s life, career and romance ups and downs as well.

Rae and Orji are wonderful as Issa and Molly, and their chemistry is what kept me watching the show for all six seasons.

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