Report on Latest Cookie Testing
To occupy you, while I run around the country with my 18-wheelin’ driving husband - yes, I’m inside the rig with him - here are some cookies I tested before hitting the highways. Reports soon about being on the road as a trucker’s vegan wife. But first, dessert!
Zesty Lime Coconut Wedding Cookies
Texture: soft and moist, but crumbly enough that you might take some heat for it
Taste: lime and coconut play perfectly well together
Rating: 3.5 dough balls
Crispy Pinwheels
Texture: crispy and crunchy
Taste: like carmalized sugar with an ever-so-slight chocolate taste
Rating: 4 dough balls
Almond Ladies Kisses
Texture: soft, but expected crunchy
Taste: overpowered by almond extract, couldn’t taste the chocolate
Rating: 2 dough balls
August 8th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
A little almond extract does go a looooong way. Would you say those kisses were a little less ladylike and a lot more open-mouth-I’m-going-to-swallow-you?
(Please do delete this comment if it is too lustily graphic for a vegan blog.)
And would you say the pinwheels are like the big wheels of a vegan luhvuh’s rig? Or like the eyes of a truckdriver who’s had too much Mountain Dew?
Hope you’re having fun. Don’t forget to See Rock City.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:51 am
I’m going to play around with those Almond Kiss cookies and report back to the recipe testing area with my experiments and findings. Some ideas I had: cut the almond extract either altogether or down to 1/4 tsp.; use almond milk instead of soy for moisture; and use chopped almonds in a more chunky version than almond meal, which is what I used. We’ll see!