Posted in recipes, tagged cookies, dessert on April 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
They’re Mrs. Fields cinnamon sugar cookies, twice removed. A friend of mine sent me a copycat recipe she found, knowing it would be easy to veganize. Sure was. I’ve never had the original cookie so I can’t tell you how close it is, but it was crazy good. The texture is light and fluffy yet has [...]
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No, I didn’t bake these. I just put stuff on them. In the “ethnic” aisle at my local big-ass grocery store, I found these British treats, Snapjacks. They remind me of a cross between an oatmeal cookie and those old-school Nature Valley granola bars, but in the best way possible. They’re fine on their own, [...]
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Posted in general, tagged cookies, dessert on April 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Butter, flour, sugar, salt. It’s like the guitar, bass, drums of cookies. Shortbread tells you to leave the keyboard out of it. Because of its starkness, some people find shortbread abrasive and off-putting. It’s a serious cookie, eaten slowly between sips of a hot beverage. I wouldn’t bring a plate of these to family reunion picnic—face [...]
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Posted in general, tagged cookies on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, these cookies are so edible! What are they made out of, foodstuff? I wanted peanut butter cookies but didn’t have a recipe. The VWAV one sounded too crispy and the first couple I found on Vegweb sounded too healthy, so I headed over to Allrecipes and grabbed one that seemed like the recipe I [...]
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So there’s no red, white, and blue jello mold. No hot dogs on the grill or potato salad. But after cooking today, I did look at it and think, “That’s so American…sort of.” Dinner doesn’t get much more square than this. That is clearly a meat, starch, and a veg. The meat is my first [...]
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I friggin’ love cookies. I often make my own. Usually it’s just cookie dough for the sake of cookie dough, which I pare down to the basics of EB/peanut butter, sugar or agave, oats, ground flax seed, and chocolate chips. I call it “kukido,” since you couldn’t actually bake it. Anyway, sometimes I get the urge at the [...]
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