peanut butter toffee cookies / worst post EVAR!

this, my two blogger readers, is my worst post ever, ever-ever.

this is because all i have are two very bad pictures and no recipe. why even include it - you ask? well, its important to learn humility.

so.

when i was in philly last week i went on a sudden dinner date at a good friend's house. they did dinner, and i was to bring dessert. i had just enough time to do something short that didn't require running to the store, so i settled on cookies. specifically, the bag of toffee (i think it was hershey's heath bar toffee bits with chocolate?) in the cabinet.

usually, when i make toffee cookies, its just plain, straight up...you know...toffee cookies. but the recipe on the back of this bag advertised peanut butter toffee cookies, and that is what i made. i cannot give you the recipe because the bag is now in trash that's a week and a half old and at a dump somewhere, and, oddly enough, i cannot find it online.

but...here is what they looked like coming out of the oven...

and on a plate ready to go into the car, still warm...

yup - we can all say it - worst pictures ever. but, the bright side is that these actually tasted good. i think i like plain toffee best, but everyone needs some peanut butter now and then.

banana oatmeal breakfast cookies!

around the time of the lentil soup, i decided healthy cookies were in order, and went with 'vegan cookies invade your cookie jar's' banana oatmeal breakfast cookies. also, i had all the ingredients, including brown rice syrup and flax meal. because i am cool.

they also have oats and cranberries and, surprisingly, bananas.

remarkably, in making these cookies, i ran out of oatmeal, bananas, oil, cranberries, pecans, and agave. good job, nicole. here they are, pre-oven...

and post. yes, they look like blobs, but they're actually quite nice. bonus: you can taste the dough raw, which is not a bad thing.

vegan lemon poppy seed scones!

i made vegan lemon poppy seed scones! they came out perfect, except they were exactly like lemon poppy seed cookies. even after i played around with an online recipe where many of the comments said that these scones were perfect, except that they were actually cookies.

good thing i happen to like cookies.

here is the recipe i used, which adapted slightly from one i found on allrecipes.com.

vegan lemon poppy seed scones/cookies

ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 cup white sugar

4 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup margarine

2 lemons, juiced

2 tablespoons poppy seeds

1/4 cup soy milk

directions:

preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. grease a baking sheet. sift the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. cut in margarine until the mixture is the consistency of large grains of sand. it helps to use hands. stir in poppy seeds and lemon juice. gradually stir soy milk into the dry ingredients until the batter is moistened, but still thick like biscuit dough.

spoon 1/4 cup sized plops of batter onto the greased baking sheet so they are about 3 inches apart. this made 18 for me. bake for 10 to 15 minutes the preheated oven, until golden.

ok - picture time! hooray!

first let me again say that while i do not enjoy the feel of margarine-coated hands, it really is the best/quickest way to make sand out of your dough. observe the pretty grain-like texture:

try not to think about the fact that you had to scrub your hands with the back of the sponge. concentrate on the part where you rinsed with the extra lemon juice. which looks like this:

adding lemon juice to the dough is fun. so is adding poppy seeds. poppy is a fun word, is it not?

here is what the dough looked like when i 'plopped' it on the cookie sheet...

and after. some of the cookies wanted to be closer to one another, and, really, who was i to say they couldn't?

and, one more, for presentation, because an epicurean should care about such things.