mexican hot chocolate snickerdoodles!

so, my copy of 'vegan cookies invade your cookie jar' finally showed up in the mail, and i am very, very happy. after buying veganomicon and receiving their cupcake cookbook, i knew that i needed to own this one as well. the only problem was, of course, which ones to start with.

i opted for...mexican hot chocolate snickerdoodles. because i had the ingredients. AND, unbeknownst to me, its one of the few recipes that's also up on the post punk kitchen blog, so i can actually link to it for those of you who may be reading this blog and who don't own this cookbook...because i'm fairly sure i can't legally print recipes from something that's brand-spankin' new.

so...(click here) to get to it.

apart from raw banana ice cream, we have my first real dessert recipe post (not that that one doesn't count - it truly does - its just that this one involves, you know, an actual recipe). and, you know what this means? no picture of sauteing onions! instead, my friends, we begin with sugar...

see? nothing like an onion. unfortunately, this is where the excitement ends. i discovered quite quickly there's not too much magic when it comes to putting this baby together, pictorially speaking. like, who wants to see 8 pics of me putting sugar in a bowl, and then oil, and then maple syrup, and then milk, and then vanilla, etc. not even me. so...i condensed.

and i tried for one action shot. because i have a B.A. in communications with a specialization in radio/tv/film, and i learned that action shots are more exciting. look at the movement HERE:

or not. anyway, here's all the dry materials (cocoa, baking soda, etc) after the flour. note the dusting of the cayenne pepper on top, about to be stirred in. its the secret ingredient, elevating this recipe to stellar.

and here we have the dough all mixed together - look what i can accomplish with nothing but a fork...

and in this corner, we have topping. 'what's all this about topping,' you say? let me show you...

you roll the dough in little balls, and smoosh them in the topping, like so...

and then its covered in lovely topping, which is then placed gently on the cookie sheet. notice how i've managed to perfectly capture the exact opposite of what i wanted to in this shot.

here we have a shot of the cookie sheet pre-oven...

and after.

and, so that you can see the awesome sugar topping, one with the dreaded flash on my crappy camera. these cookies were awesome! non-vegan lovers - you can't tell the difference. make these now!