Recipe Round-Up: Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar

MOAR cookies! This time from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. Let's dig in.

Chocolate Fudgy Oatmeal Cookies: I made these as a get better gift, and they were a huge success. Oats, chocolate chip and dried fruit (I used raisins) are mixed into a rich, chocolatey dough. The recipe said it made two and a half dozen, I made a half batch and got 19 cookies using an Australian tablespoon as the cookie scoop.
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Chocolatey Crinkle Cookies: These are AMAZING. Like a cookie and a brownie had a baby! The rolled around in a sugary snow. Do I need to say anymore? I think not.
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City Girl Snickerdoodles: I had never heard of snickerdoodles until I got American cookbooks, and now I love them. This is my favourite recipe. It said it makes two dozen cookies but I get closer to thirty using Australian tablespoons to scoop, and they are big cookies! I have also made these cookies for Christmas using sugar and crushed up candy canes for the coating. Rating: :D



Tahini Lime Cookies (GF variation): One of the great things about this book as that they include their own GF flour mix, which you can use in almost any of their recipes (they give instructions for adjusting the ratio as well). These tahini and lime cookies are an unusual combination, but are very nice, though they did turn out a little dry. Yes, that does appear to be some cat fur on a cookie.
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Cranberry Almond Cookies: These were meant to be Cherry Almond Cookies, which I would have preferred, but dried cherries are insanely expensive and hard to find around my parts. They still worked out very nice with cranberries!
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Peanut Butter Crisscrosses: Classic peanut butter cookies. I made a half batch and they made about 15 smallish cookies (the full recipe says it makes 2 dozen).
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Caramel Pecan Bars (with Salted Variation): This is very sweet and very sticky, and is also quite popular at bake sales. It makes a big pan (9 x 13 inch) of bars so it is easy to make half regular and half as the salted variation (which just involves sprinkling fleur de sel on the hot bars when they are out of the oven).
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Magical Coconut Cookie Bars: These are amazing, sweet and delicious. A digestive biscuit crust (because we don't have graham crackers here) with coconut caramel and then topped with chocolate chips, flaked coconut and pecans. So yum! I actually ended up using coconut cream because I had some left over rather than coconut milk, which worked fine.
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NYC Black and White Cookies (GF variation): The cookies didn't spread very much on their own, I had to push them down so they didn't turn out like scones, I am not sure if that is due to the GF version or if that is something that would happen with the regular one as well. Anyway, they turned out quite a bit thicker than I expected. The icing is very, very sweet.
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Ooh La Las (GF variation): Many of these cookies I have made for bake sales or similar events. One bake sale I made some gluten free vegan oreos and everyone was happy! The GF variation worked really well here, and they turned out very tasty and very cute. I made a half batch, which made 18 cookies. I have yet to be able to find black cocoa, so I just used regular cocoa. The filling was quite remarkable, as it did turn into that sort of dry but sticky filling exactly like what is in an oreo!
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Cute Kitty Photo of the Post



Honey is a kitty who comes into boarding sometimes, I think I have posted her photo before, she loves to lie flat on her back with her belly in the air. This time, she also adopted this graceful pose, which apparently is the best way to groom your back legs!