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Showing posts with label cookies. Show all posts

Gluten-free Chai Snickerdoodles

December 11, 2011 Butter , chai 3 Comments

I can become fixated, especially when it comes to flavors.  I'll fixate on a flavor or flavor combination and then need to see what I can do with it by making numerous items. Lately that obsession has been chai.

I've never been a coffee or tea drinker. The hot drinks I like are hot chocolate and cider. About a year ago, though, I saw a Chai Hot Chocolate up on a menu board and decided to try it out. After all, I was always putting cinnamon and nutmeg in my cocoas anyway. After that discovery I switched to ordering chocolate chai lattes when I was at a coffee bar. Six weeks ago I decided that I needed to cut down on the sugar and so I started to order just chai lattes without the chocolate. That is my current hot drink.

It then occurred to me one day that snickerdoodle cookies are rolled in cinnamon sugar and so it wasn't that much of a leap to think of chai snickerdoodles. I was all proud of myself until I decided to search the internet and found out that other people had already had that thought. Oh well.
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Baking Mud Hens

December 08, 2011 chocolate , cookies 2 Comments
the meringue top doesn't show well in the picture

No, mud hens are not birds (in this case). Mud hens are a cookie bar, apparently a Southern treat, that I had never heard of before. I stumbled upon them on the internet and thought they looked interesting and worth a try. They consist of a cookie crust layer, then nuts, marshmallows, and chocolate chips, topped with a brown sugar meringue.

I'm not going to go into a lengthy post today. I'll just tell you a couple of things I would note about the recipe.
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The Snickerdoodle Challenge – Regular vs. Vegan

May 09, 2011 baking , cookies 1 Comments
Vegan have fork lines, regular do not

It’s been years since I last made snickerdoodle cookies. A classic recipe that’s been around for over 100 years, the cookie with the strange name is really just a cinnamon sugar cookie.

Me, I’m a big chocolate chip cookie fan. They are my go-to cookie. But I recently had a nostalgic turn where I was thinking about snickerdoodles and the fact that I hadn’t made them in a really long time. I also was learning a little about vegan baking and decided that this would be a good cookie to experiment with. After all, when you are comparing like recipes, you want the simplicity of a sugar cookie.

The reason I wanted to try baking them vegan involves a certain food snobbery that I think many of us share. I’ve been into the Sugar Plum Vegan shop a couple of times over the last few months but never bought anything. How many times have you done this? Something is labeled vegan or gluten-free and you run away as if it’s some sort of diseased item. “I want REAL food!” you proclaim. “I use butter, eggs, flour, etc. Not substitutes!”

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