Veganuary 2021: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Now that I’ve eaten about 50 of these I can share the recipe with you. The actual recipe is in Sam Turnbull’s cookbook “Fuss Free Vegan.”

Here’s my rendition that I used in the above video:

Dry Ingredients

3.5 cups of all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Mix these together in a bowl, set aside for a moment.

Wet Ingredients

1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar lightly packed
4 teaspoons vanilla
3/4 cup vegan butter
3/4 cup refined coconut oil
optional approx. 1/4-1/2 cup soy milk or coconut milk

In another bowl cream sugars with butter, coconut oil, and vanilla till mixed. Add flour mixture a bit at a time mixing each time. Continue with all the flour mixture. If the dough seems too dry sprinkle in some of the milk, a little at a time, until the dough incorporates completely. (you may find you need less or more of the milk as necessary)

1 1/2 cups vegan chocolate chips (I buy the Costco brand when I can find them as they have no milk product in them and they are cost effective)
Optional: 1 or more cups of your favorite nuts , walnuts, pecans, peanuts…whatever you like. Throw them in whole or chop them up!

Tip: Divide the dough and add different things to each. My kids aren’t fans of nuts so I divide the dough in half after adding the chips. I add our favorite nuts, right now that’s walnuts, to half and leave the other half plain. Makes everybody happy!

Bake at 350 degrees for between 12 and 15 minutes.

It’s very hard not to eat either the dough as you’re making or the baked cookies. They are delicious!

if you don’t own Sam Turnbull’s book “Fuss Free Vegan” you need to run out and buy a copy!!

Here’s a link to help you out with that…
https://itdoesnttastelikechicken.com/fuss-free-vegan/

Until next time,

Susan

National Organization Month: What are you doing?

National Organization Month and what are you doing to re-organize your home, life, and studio?

I am an avid cook so drawers that are completely unusable and crazy messy drive me crazy! So the first place I start with organization is in my kitchen. This baking drawer was such a mess I didn’t realize I had purchased several identical items! Now it’s labeled and things that go together are side by side.

Kitchen Baking Drawer

I wish I had a before picture of this. You wouldn’t have known even what this area was for. AND I threw out spices from the Jurassic period! Oy! Now it’s a pleasure to open this space!

Spices Galore

You couldn’t even tell what this area was for before I started! Plus I threw out spices from the turn of the century! Now it’s a pleasure to open this cupboard.

Bread Baking Station

How many crumbs can there really be in any one spot? This is my bread baking area…yes there are two bread machines. As a side note I bake all of our bread products from scratch. No more preservatives or hidden GMO for us! May sound crazy but it has solved a couple of health issues we had going on. AND it tastes delicious this way!

But..back to organization! With this many things on one counter area it easily gets out of whack. This is how it’s supposed to be!

Next organization project? Besides the entire house? Pieces of the studio…stay tuned!

Until next time,

Susan

P.S. Please hop over to my collaborative blog for some other organization tips from the studios of the girls!!