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I don't think of myself as any sort of a cook, baker, etc. I got onto postpunkkitchen.com one day, and randomly decided to go for it; the directions made the recipe sound so simple! Two batches of oatmeal pumpkin cookies later, my coworkers were begging me to keep at it! If this book can make vegan baking that straight forward to me, they are whizzes! Add that to the fact that these vegan recipes make for desserts more delicious than the evil-loaded mass produced alternatives out there, and you have a happy belly! Love love love this cookie jar invasion!
I gave a copy of this to my daughter for her birthday. She is a very inexperienced baker and she turned out some delicious results using this book. The peanut butter filled chocolate cookies were ridiculously good.I don't remember what they were called. As usually, these ladies do not disappoint.
As with all cookbooks, I'll update as I cook through it.
I've yet to have a bad experience with this book. Everything tastes great, the instructions are very clear. Some cookies have pictures, not all. Sometimes the picture on the facing page does not match up with the recipe.
Orange Agave Chocolate Chip Cookies: The only sweetener is agave, so don't make them for an audience expecting a pure sugar rush. Otherwise, these are tasty and held together well. There is a lot of orange flavor from the zest.
Cowboy Cookies: lots of good mix-ins, like pecans, coconut and chocolate chips. The dough was difficult to work with though, so I'm not sure I'll make them again. Somehow it was sticky and resisted cohesion. However, against all expectations they did firm up nicely while baking. I gave these to someone in my favorite Gladware container, and that bastard never gave it back.
Big Fat Krispy Rice Squares: brown rice syrup subs for marshmallows, and does a respectable sticky job. During the day, they did become melty. I suspect you can easily hack any rice krispie square recipe if you so desire, subbing Earth Balance for the butter. If there is a Trader Joe's near you, their marshmallows are vegan!! (and cheaper than Dandies.)
Chocolate Marmalade Sandwich Cookies: a slight pain to make, since you are making sandwiches but the bitterness of the chocolate and marmalade combined well. Apparently though, not everyone is a marmalade fan.
City Girl Snickerdoodles: Tasted good and snickerdoodley. Watch these carefully in the oven, the line between done and burn was a very thin one I did not navigate with complete success.
Chocolate Fudgy Oatmeal Cookies: I'm hit or miss with oatmeal, but these are score winners thanks to the chocolate and dried cherries (you can use raisins, which are cheaper but also why would you bother?) I will say that flax seed was the binding agent, and was maybe not up to the task. Just the drive to work threatened the internal stability of these cookies. They tasted good though.
I've yet to have a bad experience with this book. Everything tastes great, the instructions are very clear. Some cookies have pictures, not all. Sometimes the picture on the facing page does not match up with the recipe.
Orange Agave Chocolate Chip Cookies: The only sweetener is agave, so don't make them for an audience expecting a pure sugar rush. Otherwise, these are tasty and held together well. There is a lot of orange flavor from the zest.
Cowboy Cookies: lots of good mix-ins, like pecans, coconut and chocolate chips. The dough was difficult to work with though, so I'm not sure I'll make them again. Somehow it was sticky and resisted cohesion. However, against all expectations they did firm up nicely while baking. I gave these to someone in my favorite Gladware container, and that bastard never gave it back.
Big Fat Krispy Rice Squares: brown rice syrup subs for marshmallows, and does a respectable sticky job. During the day, they did become melty. I suspect you can easily hack any rice krispie square recipe if you so desire, subbing Earth Balance for the butter. If there is a Trader Joe's near you, their marshmallows are vegan!! (and cheaper than Dandies.)
Chocolate Marmalade Sandwich Cookies: a slight pain to make, since you are making sandwiches but the bitterness of the chocolate and marmalade combined well. Apparently though, not everyone is a marmalade fan.
City Girl Snickerdoodles: Tasted good and snickerdoodley. Watch these carefully in the oven, the line between done and burn was a very thin one I did not navigate with complete success.
Chocolate Fudgy Oatmeal Cookies: I'm hit or miss with oatmeal, but these are score winners thanks to the chocolate and dried cherries (you can use raisins, which are cheaper but also why would you bother?) I will say that flax seed was the binding agent, and was maybe not up to the task. Just the drive to work threatened the internal stability of these cookies. They tasted good though.
We're not vegan, but a member of our household can't have dairy. This cookbook has a lot of variety, from classics to newer flavors. It's written in a friendly style with a lot of tips, and the ingredients seem like they'll be easy enough to find.
We've made the Chocolate Fudgy Oatmeal Cookies. It was a good first recipe to try because we make variations on oatmeal cookies often, plus we had all of the ingredients on hand. Fabulous! Yes, better than our usual (non-vegan) chocolate oatmeal cookies by far.
We've made the Chocolate Fudgy Oatmeal Cookies. It was a good first recipe to try because we make variations on oatmeal cookies often, plus we had all of the ingredients on hand. Fabulous! Yes, better than our usual (non-vegan) chocolate oatmeal cookies by far.
Go-to vegan desserts - so easy to make! Many of the recipes only require prep time and less than 20 minutes of bake time, so it is easy to turn around some cookies for a last-minute event. The recipes are varied, including brownies, breakfast bars and energy bars on top of the regular cookie fare.
While I love the earlier Cupcake book, this one seems even easier to use because cookies are more portable.
Great book that will get more than a fair share of use!
While I love the earlier Cupcake book, this one seems even easier to use because cookies are more portable.
Great book that will get more than a fair share of use!
This book boasts 100 different cookie recipes inside, although there are several fruit and oat type bars and brownies and not-quite-cookies included. The recipes are all fairly doable without many laughably expensive or generally unattainable-for-the-average-person ingredients. I will be trying a handful of the recipes, but generally most felt uninspiring to me. Still, I'm glad a vegan cookie cookbook exists, and I hope the recipes I do try turn out phenomenally.
I haven't tried the recipes yet but they look delicious with reasonable ingredients that don't cost an arm and a leg. I have most ingredients in my house already! My first recipe to try is Peanut Butter Chocolate Pillows (husband's choice).
A wonderful resource for eggless cooking (we can and do use dairy, but not soy and so modify the recipes accordingly), this has quickly become a well thumbed reference book at our house that we now turn to just as frequently as we have been turning to their prior Vegan Cupcakes book. We haven't made all the cookies (yet), but the sugar cookies are simple and tasty, cut and bake well. The espresso brownies are the fudgiest of all the various eggless brownies we've tried. The Cowboy cookies recipe is very versatile and even more delicious.
I'm still planning to get a copy to work my way through, but so far, I have not been impressed. I made three recipes from this book; the first turned out alright, if a little too oily, but the other two required a lot of alterations. I think it's probably worth it, to eventually have a store of vegan cookie recipes, to work through them and discover the necessary modifications, but I'm unsure why my heretofore favorite vegan cookbook authors have written recipes that don't quite work.
So far I've made: Peanut Butter Chocolate Pillows, which turned out okay but a little too oily; the first Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, which required reducing the oil, increasing the flour, and lengthening the cooking time; and the Peanut Butter Blondies recipe, which I only made once before the interlibrary loan book had to be returned, so the only thing I could do to improve the undercooked, crumbly mess the recipe instructions produced was to more than double the prescribed baking time.
Unimpressed, but up for the challenge. And still, I trust the authors more than the majority of stuff you find on the internet that is often untested and sometimes simply inedible.
So far I've made: Peanut Butter Chocolate Pillows, which turned out okay but a little too oily; the first Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, which required reducing the oil, increasing the flour, and lengthening the cooking time; and the Peanut Butter Blondies recipe, which I only made once before the interlibrary loan book had to be returned, so the only thing I could do to improve the undercooked, crumbly mess the recipe instructions produced was to more than double the prescribed baking time.
Unimpressed, but up for the challenge. And still, I trust the authors more than the majority of stuff you find on the internet that is often untested and sometimes simply inedible.
I love Isa Moskowitz's books! Most of the recipes are really simple, though more complicated recipes for more ambitious cooks are always featured. I made the Banana cookies and they were delicious! I also appreciate that a whole section for "wholesome cookies" was included. I have a few more to try out before I return the book to the library. I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in healthier/vegan baking!