Today I thought I’d share something a bit different.
Here’s something you might not know about me, my passion for creating extends outside my studio. I love cooking and baking, even more so I love tinkering with recipes. One of my goals is to make yummy, healthier versions of some of my favorites. Yesterday, Noah and I made these incredibly DELICIOUS, Chewy Chocolate Cookies.
They came out SO GOOD I had to share my recipe creation with you.
1 C granulated sugar (I used Florida Crystals)
1/2 C Brown Rice Syrup
3/4 C Margerine (I used a Vegan brand called Earth Balance)
1/2 C Coconut Oil
1tsp Vanilla
2 count egg replacer (such as Bob’s Red Mill)
1/3 C Coconut Flour
1 & 2/3 C White Wheat Flour
1/2 C Whole Grain Pastry Flour
1/2 C Cacao Powder
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp Salt
Preheat oven to 350. In a lg. bowl beat together first 6 ingredients (sugar – egg replacer). In a med. bowl mix together remaining dry ingredients. Add dry ingredients to wet in small batches, beating each time. Mix until combined. Drop dough by rounded tbs onto cookie sheet about 2 in apart. Bake for 10-12 min. Let cool 1-2 min. before transferring to cooling rack. Cool and ENJOY!
*A little note on making quick substitutions: I have built up my baking cupboard with a variety of different ingredients including whole grain flours, oils and sweeteners. I can’t tell you how much more fun and flavorful baking has become now that I don’t rely on all purpose flour and basic white sugar. If you enjoy baking, I highly recommend trying out a few new ingredients.
However, if you don’t have these ingredients on hand or can’t find them in your local store, feel free to do a little “tinkering” on your own. For example all the flours can be switched for “white wheat flour” or even all purpose flour (although I personally find much more flavor in other flours.) Brown Rice syrup is a fairly mild sweetener that I have recently discovered. If you can’t get your hands on any try using brown sugar instead. You may also switch out the egg replacer for 2 lg eggs.
June 10, 2011
Another thing I’ve used is oatmeal, grind it up in a coffee grinder and use as oatmeal flour. This is real yummy in pancakes 😛 I think I’ll try this with whole wheat flour combo in the cookies. I need to buy egg replacer and the syrup. I guess I can use agave nectar but I want to try with the brown rice syrup. Sounds good.
June 13, 2011
Cheryl, Thank you for adding the comment about “oatmeal flour.” It is another flour I use a lot in baking. So yummy in cookies, cakes, pancakes… mmmmmm
If you make this recipe with the oatmeal flour I’d love to sample them.
June 10, 2011
Tell Dan if you’re going to post recipes, you need a feature for printing recipe cards 🙂 Thanks for sharing, Jen!
June 16, 2011
oooo…. I like that idea!
June 10, 2011
I love to cook too and I am so going to try these cookies. It is so spooky that you are talking about flour today Jeniffer – today I took my lovely Mum for an 84th birthday outing. We went to a place called Cauldwells Mill where there is a craft centre, restaurante and….. a working flour mill museum with a shop selling all types of flour produced on site. You always seem to know exactly what is going on in my life Jeniffer and then write about it.
June 13, 2011
Christine that is so great! I love the magic of the Universe and how it brings the right words, through the right people directly to us at the right time.
I hope you enjoy flour sampling. Watch out though, kind of like art supplies it is easy to get addicted : )
June 13, 2011
Good idea, Christi! I bet I can at least whip up a template that Jen could then use to make a downloadable/printable .pdf from.
Hmmm….. 🙂
June 17, 2011
Are these the cookies I tried? They were so good. You and Cheryl both have inspired me to start changing up recipes.I made a really yummy vegan, no bake, super easy cookie that I am bringing to share with you tonight. I hope you love it!
June 17, 2011
Yes, Miss Lotus these are the cookies you tried : ) I’m so glad I’ve helped to inspire new recipes in your kitchen too. Extra glad I get to help sample them.