Vegan Cookies Invade Yr Cookie Jar Party Aftermath!and more Peanut Butter Blondies!and other Cookies!

cowgrrrl cookies or isa and terry?
(that's an oatmeal,coconut,chocolate chunk-er,btw)

so in my last post i mentioned that there was gonna be a party to celebrate the release of Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar at Moo Shoes.and there was.last night.and it was really fun!

isa and terry were there,isa's jokes were unfunny but terry looked really great,so it made up for it.
thanks everyone who put it on,it was super great.there was a lot of cookies,but i decided to make peanut butter blondies(from the book)anyways:


peanut butter blondies from vciycj.with chocolate chips in half.




with ginger molasses cookies.

but as i said there was 900 million types of cookies,and isa's mom was right that it was just "silly.but thoughtful."
anyways,more of those 900 million cookies(just a few...):


sweet potato blondies.


classic peanut butter criss cross.crosshatch or something.


melissa.


molly.


eric.


randoms.


paula's head.

Oh,Hey,I Met the Real Rachael Ray.Oh,and VCTOYCJ Peanut Butter Blondies.

Oh hey!I met the real Rachael Ray.

we're also soul mates,and she actually complimented me and said "i love your shirt!it's very autumnal."

that's one of my favourite words,p.s.

just thought i had to let the world know that i met rayray.

elegance,beauty,AND grace.

such a good sense of humour,too.

and i guess in terms of vegan baking...

peanut butter blondies from vegan cookies invade your cookie jar!

yes,did you know that vegan cookies invade your cookie jar,isa chandra moskowitz and terry hope romero's newest cook(IE!) book is now out?i was a tester,and wrote about some recipes(like the soft whole wheat fig bars!)last month as part of vegan mofo,and just in general a lot over the past year,but it's out now,so go buy it!

with(incredible) espresso from abraco.

and these are definitely in my top 3 recipes from the book.probably number 1,actually.then the nutter butters and fig bars.

so peanut buttery,fudgy,dense,crispy sides,salty and sweet...incredible.

oh,they're also really good with ice cream.

here's a peanut butter blondie with cakebatter softserve ice cream from lula's sweet apothecary.

and if yr in NYC,there's a party happening at Moo Shoes tomorrow tuesday november 24th at 7pm to celebrate the book with isa and terry and cookies and snacks and drinks and book signing and more,so go!

and because i already mentioned ice cream,and peanut butter,to...

pb&j ice cream(grape jelly!) and cake batter softserve from lula's.

Vegan MoFo Day#7-7 Jars of White Chocolate Peanut Butter & White Chocolate Peanut Butter Blondies!

White Chocolate Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Blondies.

i can't believe that i never actually posted about this.
back at the end of march i scored 7 jars of peanut butter & co's white chocolate wonderful peanut butter for only $0.99 a jar.i was actually out early before seeing bonnie 'prince' billy play at the vogue and the choices in yaletown was discontinuing all their pb&co peanut butter,so these were only $0.99!and didn't expire until november or something,but that doesn't matter because i went through 1 a week eating it plain except for baking some blondies and really incredible peanut butter oatmeal cookies with white chocolate chunks/chips.



the peanut butter blondies are a tester recipe from the (very forthcoming) all-vegan cookie cook book written by isa chandra moskowitz and terry hope romero,which i posted a bunch about testing months ago,and was even staying with isa when testing was in high gear and was forced to do horrible,menial tasks like go to new seasons three times in one day,and anyways,the book comes out in november,is gonna rule,and you should buy it.
this white chocolate peanut butter is amazing and tatses like reese's pieces candy,so it's no surprise that these were amazing,on a different level with the wcw.
here's even what i wrote about them back in december
"Z-E-D-O-H-M-Y-G-O-D.
i am not being irrational when i say that these are my second all time faves.maybe even first.my first still being the gigantoid peanut butter oatmeal cookies.i'm gonna make those and these and compare.holy crap.i of course was expecting these to be good,because they're peanut butter,but no,these are blowing my find.they're like fudge.but unlike fudge you can have a big piece and there's something more to it,like more substantial and more going on than sugar overload.(no offense to fudge)
i cut a little square of them and ate it hot from the oven and it was like melting in my mouth and i felt like "i need someone to be experiencing this with me".they're super dense and just perfect,and i used salted peanuts and they're so sweet and salty....ahhh.i'm gonna make the gigantoid pbs and these again and compare.wow.
i was not expecting this.yeah,this morning i was excited to see a pb recipe to test,but i had no idea my world would be turned upside down like this.
i have vanilla cranberry pb and am gonna make these again with that and add dried cranberries to the batter.
also,these would be amazing warm with vaniller ice creams. "

hehehehe.


White Chocolate Peanut Butter Chunk Oatmeal Cookies.


dough.

oh,and i made my favourite cookies ever with it,which were really really,like better than danishes,well received at my bakesales.

Vegan MoFo Day4:Peanut Butter Blondies!

Okay,so in like February I really really really wanted to make peanut butter blondies after seeing a bunch of people posting pictures of them on the flickr group Chocolate and Peanut Butter,but non of them were vegan,and I couldn't find a good recipe,and sometimes veganizing brownies/blondies can be really hard because texture is everything.Okay,well not everything,but I don't want cake or something lame like that went I want a chewy fudgy brownie or blondie.
So then I found the Peanuttiest Blondie recipe from a Dorie Greenspan book,which,people had veganized!So I had every intent on making them,but forgot about them until this past week when thinking about all the delicious things that I'd do with peanut butter.
Actually,in a college application a question was to explain your trivilalities and my friend Stella who I was complaining to about not finding a peanut butter blondie recipe told me that that should be my triviality.But then I wrote about jars.
So i looked at the veganized recipe and was kind of disappointed because it used en-r-g egg replacer,which yeah might work,but it does have a taste and occasionally makes things dry.And it dumb and expensive anyways.It seems kind of exclusive and unnecessary.Anyways,so I decided I'd do it differently.Then looking at the recipe I decided that i'd do a bunch of stuff differently.Like adding way more peanut butter for example.So,it kind of became a different recipe,but my starting point was the Peanuttiest Blondies,and I guess you could say I was inspired by them.Anywhoo,they turned out delicious.
Really fudgy,but with a crisp top.Kevin ate like half a pan.
I brought them to Jess's vice presidential debate party,and yeah,they ruled the school.I also puked all over her living room floor,but that's a different story.Yay!



i'll get around to posting the original recipe and what I did differently soon!