Peanut Butter Cookies!!!

Cookies!!! YUMMY!!!

I don't make fattening sweet treats very often but every now and again will not hurt anyone. Before going plant based eating I used to LOVE making cookies and I have some REALLY great recipes. This recipe I was able to convert and they are just as good as the original recipe.  These are so easy and great to make with the kids!!! Every kid loves cookies and helping to make cookies is a memory that they will keep, so get your kids in the kitchen!!! :) And the best part? We all know it is the cookie dough!!! Bonus: No raw egg to worry about. YAY!!!

Enough talking more baking. Here is the recipe for these fantastic cookies.

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
I must say here that I always double up my batches of cookies this recipe is a single batch. If you want to double it up again great Math for the kids!!!

Preheat your oven to 375 degree Fahrenheit
Line your baking sheets if you want to with parchment paper.

In your standard mixer or in a bowl combine
1 Cup Crisco Butter Flavored
1/2 Cup Peanut Butter. I used Adams crunchy with half of the oil poured out and mixed well.
1/2 Cup Coconut Sugar
1/2 Cup Raw Unprocessed Sugar (Sucanat)
1 Tbsp Vanilla
3 Tbsp Almond Milk
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Salt
Mix well!!!
I am a lazy baker usually people sift their salt, soda, flour together. I am a dump kind of a cook and so mixing the soda and salt in at this point mixes it well. :) After you are to this point if you want Chocolate chips or Carab Chips now is the time to add them. mix before your flour.
1 3/4 Cup Wheat Flour
2 Tbsp Tapioca Flour
1 tsp Corn Starch
Mix Well and form into round balls with your hands. Place on your baking sheet and press down with a fork twice criss corssing like an x. Don't press down to hard your are just placing a pattern and pressing them down about half way.
Place in preheated oven (375) for 10-12 minutes. Don't over bake unless you want hard cookies. I love mine soft so I like to take them out at the 10 minute mark and let them cool (maybe) just a little to stiffen. A fork works if you just cant wait. :) Here are my cookies when they have cooled slightly. Don't forget your last batch!!! I always have a tendancy to burn my last batch. I didn't burn any of these ones. I think it helped that I now have a double oven AND I was taking them to my friend who said that they were soooo good. Even her little 2 year old loved them. :) Makes me so happy when I can share vegan treats that taste good. :)

Much love, Emily Bryar

Raw Apple Pie for Breakfast!!!

I made raw apple pie with dried figs for breakfast. It was SOOOOO GOOD!!!!! So I wanted to share with you what I did.

In a blender add some soaked dates with water about 1 Cup of Dates and about 1 Cup Water
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1/8 tsp Nutmeg and Mace (Both are ground)
Blend till smooth
Take about 7-10 apples and chop them into slices
10 Dried figs or use raisins I just didn't have any so I used figs.
mix your date in with your apples and figs

Topping
 2 Cups Raw old fashion oats
 In your blender add 1/8 Cup Coconut Sugar
about 3 TBSP water or coconut water
5 Dates
Add Cinnamon to your liking or leave it out. You choose.
Mix the Coconut sugar and oats and mix with your hands it should be like a crumble crust type of a mixture.

Plate up your apples and top with your crumble. If you are staying away from oats and other grains it is still really good without the crumble. :0)

This is a good recipe for the children to help in the kitchen. It is good for them to learn to use a knife and it will give them skills for harder things. My Beeps knows how to use a knife and she is 6 years old. I started teaching her when she was about 4. With supervision and learning that it is not a toy but a sharp and dangerous item and to be used with caution they can learn really fast to be ok using a knife. And if they get thick apples it wont ruin the pie. :0)

Also, if you are having an attack of I NEED SOMETHING sweet good and cooked try this it will feel like you sinned. LOL But then you don't have to tell yourself that you will start over tomorrow. You might feel like you need to say that but NO WAY you are GOOD TO GO!!!! Try it and let me know what you think. :0)
Spice said that it tasted like it should be really unhealthy. LOL It was really very good!!!


Hugs, Emily

Chocolate Chip Cookies. Vegan, Gluten Free.

  Today as we were coming home from the park and my three younger children wanted to stop and get a treat. I told them that when we got home that we would try our hand at making some chocolate chip cookies.
  I had not tried to make them before but had wanted to my hand at making some. They turned out really good!!! They are not gooey in the middle which is my all time favorite. I had perfected my non-vegan chocolate chip cookies to be crunchy on the outside and gooey in the middle. However, these cookies were really good!!! They have the same texture as pumpkin cookies.
  Without further adieu here you go!!!

Heat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
In a mixing bowl combine
  1 1/2 Cup Vegan or Unprocessed Raw Sugar
  1/2 Cup Powdered Stevia
  1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
  1- 15oz Can of Beans (Pinto or light Kidney work well, Drained, Rinsed and blended well!!!)
  3/4 Cup Unsweetened Apple Sauce
  1/2 Cup Coconut oil (Solid or Melted)
  1 full tincture liquid Stevia Carmel flavor (Optional) but delicious
  1 TBSP Vanilla
 Blend to combine
  Then add
  4 tsp Baking Powder
  1 tsp Salt
  1/8 tsp Xanthan Gum
   You can pick this up at your health food store and a lot of your regular grocery stores now carry this and a LITTLE goes a LONG ways!!! Learned that the hard way :0)
  1 bag of Chocolate Chips. If you like a lot of chocolate chips in your cookies then add 1 1/2- 2 bags. Make sure they are vegan.
   Add nuts if you like about 1 cup should do it or you can eyeball it.
Mix again
  4 Cups of Flour
         Any kind will do I used a mixture of Tapioca Flour, Brown Rice Flour, and Corn Starch. To make them Gluten free. About 1 cup tapioca, and corn starch, then 2 cups rice. I did have to add about half a cup extra of the rice flour because Tapioca flour is not very thickening. If you use White flour or Wheat flour start with the four cups and add if needed.
   Mix well and scoop onto a lightly sprayed cookie sheet. Bake for 13 minutes pull out and let cool on a cooling rack or eat the whole bowl raw. :0) Nothing better then raw dough and you cant get sick because there are no raw eggs.
 

                     Here is the consistency and yes I did eat it off of my spoon. Mmmmm Yummy.
I hope that you enjoy these as much as we do.

 Much Love, Emily Bryar