The Amazing Adventures of Bacon & Tofu

It appears that halloween treats are making their appearance across the web.  Last week I had a couple of treats appear on my reader (thanks to my buddy Alisa!) and there was one I just HAD to try: Vampire Cookies.  The recipe seemed simple enough and it even took into account the fact that I don’t always want to make the dough and cook the cookies on the same day.  So on Sunday I started my cookies and just finished them up last night.

It was easy to veganize the recipe just by using margarine for “butter” and Ener-G Egg Replacer for the egg.  The cookie dough was super easy to make but the assembly of the cookie was a little more trying.  If you are feeling froggy and want to try to make them I have a few suggestions.

1. Don’t forget to chill your dough!
2. Work in small batches or a really cold kitchen (walk-in freezer?)
3. If you have a marble counter or cutting board, use it!  If it is a board you might want to chill it with the dough – this will help keep the dough chilled longer and therefore easier to work with.
4. When it says “lightly floured surface” feel free to be liberal, and make sure to flour the rolling pin too!
5. If you are expecting the cookies to bleed on their own, don’t.  Mine didn’t bleed at all – could have been the high quality, chunky jam I used though.

You may want to wait to preheat your oven until you have them made just to help keep the temperature in your kitchen down, but I am not sure how much that will help.  Enjoy baking!  (I’ll post pictures when we get them uploaded!)

~C

I love cookies.  I love them so much that we had cookies instead of cake at our wedding.  This past Friday I was suddenly taken with a craving for No-Bake Cookies, one of my favorite cookies from my childhood.  I remember making them with my mom and then following her as she dropped them to pick up all the little “bits” left on the wax paper.  Fortunately, this recipe is SUPER easy to veganize and doesn’t change the cookie at all.  Make them – I promise you will love them too!  Just make sure that you heed the timing advice – boil it too long and they will be chocolate-peanut-buttery chalk.  I think next time I won’t veganize them so that I can eat them all and don’t have to share with Sat.

~C