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I’ve eaten my share of delicious vegan cookies, but last week I baked a batch that just might have been the best ever! The cookies, which are dramatically large and perfect for bake sales, are from a book called Whole Grain Vegan Baking by Celine Steen and Tamasin Noyes. It’s a recipe treasure trove for [...]
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This week I visited a friend who happened to be baking Oreo cookies stuffed into chocolate chip cookies and baked in muffin cups. She got the idea from a cookie her son brought home from a high school bake sale. Because they were cookies within cookies, they were named after the movie Inception, which is [...]
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Happy Valentine’s Day! As a gift to you, I’m sharing a recipe for a cookie inspired by one from Whole Foods. If you’ve ever heard of their “Vegan Big Johns”, then you know what I’m talking about. They are chewy, 5 1/2 inch round, chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies sold in the bakery. While they happen [...]
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A few days ago I posted a picture of a cookie I bought from Urth Caffe in Los Angeles. The wrapper reeled me in – “wheat free, dairy free, egg free, guilt free!” It sounded pretty horrible, really. But it was delicious! Part of why it was so good was the barley flour which to [...]
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Hi All, I’m heading to the gym now, but will report the winners of the basket contest soon. Judges are still deliberating. For now, here’s a new cookie recipe. This one’s experimental, but it’s one of those super easy small batch versions that is worth a try — especially if you’re vegan. Besides, I could [...]
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TGIF! I hope you are having a good Friday. Now let’s get down to business. First off, I said the last cookie I posted was vegan. Well, it is if you don’t use the bittersweet chips I called for. I just read the Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate chips bag and the ingredients say …
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Better late than never, right? Here’s today’s cookie! I was really interested in seeing if the vegan recipe form yesterday could undergo yet more adjustments. It did. In this thrilling new cookie, I used vegetable oil in place of shortening, cut out 1 tablespoon of flour and plopped in a quarter cup of Smart Balance [...]
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