Easy Christmas cookies with a nice loaf of bread I made earlier. Weird light in my kitchen.
There's a cookie contest going on, and as I was baking today, I thought I would try out a new recipe for chocolate chip cookies. One small problem: I didn't have any chocolate chips, so I tried dried cranberries and walnuts.
It's a good basic recipe that you can add your own flavourings to:
1 can chickpeas (or 200g cooked chickpeas).
1/2 cup and a bit nut butter (I used smooth peanut butter).
1/4 cup any flour - wheat, chickpea, rice, oat.
1 teaspoon baking powder.
1/4 teaspoon salt.
Sweetener (sugar, honey, maple syrup etc) to taste.
For chocolate chip cookies, you can add:
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For Christmas cookies, you can add:
1/2 mixed dried cranberries and walnuts
1 teaspoon cinnamon or mixed spice
The method is very easy:
Whizz everything together in a food processor.
Shape into twelve balls and flatten slightly on a baking tray.
Bake for 12 minutes at 180 degrees centigrade (or equivalent).
Allow to cool and firm up for ten minutes or so, then remove to a cooling tray.
Eat with a nice beverage.
You can also make them with a tin of black beans rather than chickpeas to get dark, more dense cookies.
I found these in a cookie video by @saucestache, a vegan cook on youtube. He has lots of ideas for things like cheesecake, and seems to be especially fond of creating things with a tin or two of chickpeas. As tinned chickpeas are very inexpensive, that is okay!
I liked that they didn't take long to make, you probably have all the ingredients in the cupboard, or things you can easily substitute, and they're a nice activity (with a scrummy reward) if you have children around. They're easy to put together if you suddenly get a text that visitors are on their way.
I used jumbo oats that I processed for a couple of minutes to create oat flour before I added all the other ingredients except the fruit and nuts - just fold those in at the end when the cookie dough is ready. Incidentally, the cookie dough tastes quite nice raw.
The cooked dough held together very well and was nice and fudge-y inside, like a brownie. I was pleased with that because in the video, they fell apart quite easily. They went nicely with a cup of tea. I also tried one crumbled over some yoghurt and grapes that I'd roasted in the air fryer. Very nice - you could try lots of different topping with this one!
Hmm.... that's certainly a new one on me. Perhaps a few drops of lemon juice and some sesame seeds and you've just invented hummus cookies. Could make you a fortune! I'm afraid to ask you what you ate for Christmas dinner now!
Hope you've had an amazing week and my love best wishes to you and your loved ones :-)
Actually, hummus cookies, sweet or savoury (with or without the garlic) would be very nice! If I were a cookie eater, I might look into that. I just tried them as an experiment. (I ate nut roast for my Christmas dinner, it was lovely) 😁
It's been a very pleasant week, relaxing, the weather's been a bit rubbish - fog yesterday. I hope you've had a good week, too, although I think you've been working as usual? I really enjoy reading your posts, whether isolated Scottish railway stations with cafe to rent or Thai festivals, they're all great. Best wishes to you and your family 😍
Oooh interesting! I've not heard of putting chickpeas in cookies before, though I do experiment with different flours.
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Chick pea flour might be easier/quicker. I guess the advantage of tinned chick peas is that you're not committed 😁. Chick peas are quite good as a base because they're quite bland. I was maybe a touch heavy with the peanut butter if I was aiming for vanilla flavour 😂, but they were tasty anyway.
Nice to see you doing a contest again. Maybe you would do some next year that we could promote through Saturday Savers Club?
Yeah, that sounds good. I'll let you know when I have a new one that works for that! :)
Looks and sounds amazing! Sending a hug from both Clare and I :<)
Thank you 🤗.
I was glad to read you were getting a room with a proper bed and a working bathroom.
It'll be respite for you both.
Enjoy the family!
Hmm now I need to go find some cookies in the middle of the night haha. Thankfully I have some left
It was a mistake, I ate too many! 😂
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