{"id":121,"date":"2010-12-13T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2010-12-13T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T23:33:00","slug":"vegan-cookies-take-over-my-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/vegan-cookies-take-over-my-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Cookies take over&#8230; my week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh it&#8217;s been a great few weeks. I spent a few evenings baking up a storm in the kitchen for a Winter Cookie Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>First cookies I made were basically a cookie disaster. All I had was Becel vegan margarine and as many people know, it&#8217;s really not that great for baking. But, it&#8217;s great for making moist cookie dough (in case you just want to stand in the kitchen eating it&#8230; not that I know&#8230;) So my pecan chocolate chip cookies smelled wonderful while they were baking, tasted great, but they just were&#8217;t quite right.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/5225432091\/\" title=\"pecan chocolate chip cookies by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5003\/5225432091_3015100267.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"pecan chocolate chip cookies\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe next day I&nbsp;received&nbsp;a care package in the mail from my mom, and of course the cookies she baked were magic and a half. (But cookies from Mom always are). She used the a recipe from the <a href=\"http:\/\/veganplanet.blogspot.com\/\">Vegan Planet <\/a>cookbook<br \/> which is availible online on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestrong.com\/recipes\/vegan-planets-better-than-grandmoms-chocolate-chip-cookies\/\">LiveStrong.com<br \/>\n<\/a> (but that cookbook is worth buying, it&#8217;s a great resource!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/5228673564\/\" title=\"cookies! by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Proof my mom loves me\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5126\/5228673564_30d8634a63.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThen it was cookie party day. Everyone brought 4 dozen (except me) but it was such a great idea. Everyone brings cookies, you spread them out, and everyone leaves with a great assortment of treats. I brought a few different kinds but only managed to make around 2.5 dozen, so I left with fewer cookies than everyone else (which was perfect!).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/5240828506\/\" title=\"Cookies! by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cookies!\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5124\/5240828506_023f60b2ce.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI used a recipe off of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/holiday\/how-to-rule-at-your-holiday-cookie-exchange\/article1819357\/\">Globe and Mail<\/a>, but veganized it, and modified it to the point that as usual, I wasn&#8217;t following a recipe anymore. My experiment in making lemony vegan royal icing was a success (I think), but I feel like my peanut butter icing needed some more work. I&#8217;ll be better prepared for next time!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/5240231717\/\" title=\"Cookies! by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5206\/5240231717_e7a0b052e0.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Cookies!\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh it&#8217;s been a great few weeks. I spent a few evenings baking up a storm in the kitchen for a Winter Cookie Exchange. First cookies I made were basically a cookie disaster. All I had was Becel vegan margarine and as many people know, it&#8217;s really not that great&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,182,11,4],"tags":[1376],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cookie-exchange","category-cookies","category-potluck","category-vegan-food","tag-vegan-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}