Munchie Monday: Icky Chocolate Chip Cookies!

You know, I never thought there would be a chocolate chip cookie that I did not like.  I was wrong.  Dear One found a vegan chocolate chip cookie recipe that he printed for me.  At two different times. Several weeks apart.  Finally I decided to make them.

They were actually pretty awful.  They called for, among other things, almond flour, melted coconut oil, and a lot of maple syrup for sweetening. Those ingredients are not bad on the face of it, but together, the whole was not better than the parts BY A LONG SHOT!!!.  They came out VERY soft and falling apart. Their flavor was rather weird, probably because of the melted coconut oil and maple syrup.

The cookies on this plate are the only ones that held together.

Dear One did not even like them very much!  So I tossed the recipe.  In retrospect I should have saved it in a file of "Never Use This Recipe Again" recipes!

Munchie Monday: Food Fail Again

A dear friend posted a fabulous-sounding brownie recipe on Facebook (Lunch Lady Cake/Brownies) so in a weak moment, I decided to make them.

The mixing up, etc worked very well.  That bad part happened when I decided to portion them batter out into the silicon mini-cupcake pan.  VERY BAD IDEA.

With the brownies such a failure, I did not go on to compound the problem by making the great fudge icing that was called for.

Having showed you this disaster,  I will admit that it only took about 36 hours for the whole mess to disappear down someone's gullet...  They did taste fine, just so unsightly.

Food Fail Again

Kim M put a post on Facebook about some wonderful-looking Blueberry Breakfast Cake.  I decided to make it but use the non-dairy options mentioned on the King Arthur Flour website.  After doing blood work at the lab this morning I went shopping for the non-dairy options.  Two stores later I was done in and just bought the dairy options KAF had in the recipe.

A couple of hours ago I took this out of the oven:

Tastes really good!  Thanks, Kim, for bringing it to my attention.  Dear One really liked it!

Then there was the food fail!  While the above cake was cooking I decided to make cauliflower tortillas.  Remember when I made them many months ago, using cassava flour?  Which is what they called for?  Two ingredients: riced cauliflower squeezed very dry then a cup of cassava flour.  Well, and a dab of salt.

Did not find the cassava flour that I was also looking for in the above-mentioned shopping trip.  I had some coconut flour and decided to use that.  The "dough" did not seem very good so I added some all-purpose flour.  That was still not very good so I added some water.  And a little more water.

Eventually I got out the tortilla press and pressed out five tortillas.  A major disaster.  But they tasted okay.

They fell apart before getting into the pan!

Two of them sort of stayed together long enough to get them out of the pan onto a plate.


I guess I will either look in a few more stores for the cassava flour or give up on this project.  Originally I made these to see if they would work for my friend Ashley.  The original ones worked really well.  In fact, so well that Dear One ate them all before we had them in a meal.