Greetings & Happy New Years to all ye Bandwagon followers; we hope your Holiday Season was fun-filled and much enjoyed. This last weekend, Doug and I closed out 2011 by joining about 40 others at
Pranava's mauna (a silent meditation). Charlotte & Mike (owners of Pranava) are pretty freakin' fantastic and gracious people...Doug & I wanted to contribute in some way so I dug into my arsenal of recipes to bake some delicious vegan cookies for the event. Apparently they were a big hit and some people wanted to know the recipe for themselves....so here it is: (side note: this is not MY own recipe, it comes from "Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar" by Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero)
Vegan Cowboy Cookies:
2 cups quick-cooking oats
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup canola oil
2/3 cup sugar
3/4 firmly packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup non-dairy milk
1 tablespoon ground flax seeds
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
1 generous cup vegan choco-chips
1 cup chopped pecan pieces
Be sure to make these cookies with lots of love too, otherwise they won't taste nearly as good. Combine oats, flour, baking soda & baking powder and salt in a big bowl. In a medium bowl, beat together the oil, both sugars, non-dairy milk, flax seeds & vanilla. Dump that wet into the dry and start to fold it in and then add the tasty chips/pecans/coconut and finish combining. Make sure your oven is heated to 350 degrees and portion out approximately 1/4 cup size balls of cookie batter (should be thick & sticky....your chocolate chips may not want to stick though) and place them onto a sprayed cookie sheet a couple inches apart. Press the balls down into little discs ( this cookie dough doesn't really spread much) and pop those babies in the oven. Start your timer at 8 minutes, rotate the cookies and put them in for another 5ish minutes. When they're getting golden around the bottom edges, they're done...allow to cool a couple minutes and transfer to a cooling rack to finish. DEVOUR.
Again, happy new years...may 2012 be everything you make it.
-Stephanie
