10 Ways To Know The Holidays Have You Going Off The Deep End: Take 2
1) You get into a fight with a 10 year old over the Last Nintendo Wii at Wal-Mart. You know kung-fu and you will use it.
2) You have a fanny pack filled with wrapping supplies: Tape, ribbon, and bows. You have a pair of scissors in a tool belt holster. You wear it proudly to the post office.
3) You have been singing so many Christmas Carols, your voice is a bit hoarse. People avoid you because they think you’ve got the Swine.
4) You start eating your Corn Flakes with Egg Nog instead of your regular 1% milk.
5) You have a huge melt-down in the post office when you realize that you missed the cut-off for shipping out your packages. You call Canada Post and sob……Whyyyyyyyyyyyy.
6) You have not seen your cat for days because you accidently wrapped Fluffy in a box.
7) You dog is wearing some type of santa paraphernalia- antlers, Santa hat, bells, etc.
8.) You camp out overnight in front of the shopping mall, so you can be the first to sprint through the doors.
9) You vow to knock out the next person who asks you if your sweater is for a tacky Christmas sweater party.
10) You’ve eaten so many Christmas cookies your family starts calling you Mrs. Christie.
Vegan Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
These peppermint cookies are a breath of fresh air during the often hectic holiday season. The best thing about them is that the prep work is less than 10 minutes and they only take 11 minutes in the oven. Now that is something to smile about!
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons non-dairy dark chocolate chips
- 2 1/4 cups spelt flour
- 5 T cocoa powder
- 1 T chia flour (or 1 more T of cocoa powder)
- 2 t baking powder
- 1 t baking soda
- 1/2 cup organic cane sugar
- 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
- 1/4 cup agave nectar
- 2 t pure peppermint extract
- 1 t pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
- Splash of Almond milk (if batter is dry)
Directions: Mix dry ingredients (chips, flour, cocoa, chia flour (optional), baking powder, baking soda, cane sugar) in a large bowl. In a smaller bowl mix the wet ingredients (coconut oil, maple syrup, agave, extracts). Add wet to dry. If batter is dry add a splash or two of non-dairy milk. I added about 1 tablespoon. Spoon onto baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Cook for 11 minutes at 350F and no longer. After 1 minute of cooling, transfer to cooling rack. Yields approx. 25 cookies.
Recipe adapted from Dreena Burton’s Chocolate Mint Melties found in ED&BV.
These cookies delivered the PEP!!!!
The entire house smells like peppermint too. It’s wonderful! Eric doesn’t even like peppermint and he loved these cookies. I love that spelt is the flour used in these cookies. Spelt is so much healthier than traditional white flour. They took me under 30 minutes to make from start to finish too!
Have you made any Holiday Cookies yet? What kinds?
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I’m off to finish work, cooking (one last appetizer to make!), cleaning, and sweater prep! Stay tuned for the party recap. :D
HAPPY FRIDAY!
I may have to attempt those cookies! I stay pretty traditional as far as preparation of cookies, haven’t ventured into spelt flour before. I did make some awesome Chocolate Dipped Orange Cookies though. I love orange zest in baked goods!
mmm heaven! I’m going to a cookie exchange tomorrow and I’m making a GF dark choc chip and chocolate baklava. Have a great party!
I know you’ve posted about this a lot, but what kind of lense/flash do you use again? I’m looking to splurge with the sigma 50mm f2.8 macro because it looks so wonderful! I just have terrible lighting, so I dind’t know if I should get a flash or a lighting kit? Thanks for your advice :)
Feel free to send some of those cookies my way! Hehehe :)
I may need to try these!
These look wonderful!
I haven’t make any holiday cookies yet but next week we’ll be doing our baking next week. I have NO clue what we’ll be making yet! :/
what the heck is coconut oil, angie?? is there a substitution? i want to make these ASAP!
Yummm I love chocolate and peppermint together :)
just made these and they ARE YUMMMY!!! I will have to make some more before Christmas. Thanks!! ohh I thought about adding crushed candy canes next time, do you think that would be okay?
Great minds think alike!
I have been living off of a “kris” adjusted recipe of these cookies for about 2 weeks now!
I use almond flour – http://www.iheartwellness.com/?p=429
I found the recipe in Alive Magazine
I have all the ingredients and I am going to make these tomorrow! They look fantastic!!
I have made a ton of Christmas cookie this year! Check them out on my blog! search “christmas cookies” ;)
Oh, those cookies look delish!
I haven’t had the chance to do much baking this year, but my mom gave me her awesome shortbread cookies and her AMAZING butter tarts (as a fellow Canadian you probably know of these).
Yum! I love the non-vegan, less-healthy version of these, so I’ll have to try your recipe!
When is the whittle my middle thing coming?
PS. These look yummy. I love peppermint and chocolate!
Its up on my ABS page! :)
Have fun at your party! :) Yummy cookies!
I made vegan and gluten free Gingerbread cookies w/ a holiday spice icing. I had co-workers asking for the recipe!
Eric is one lucky testing machine.
~M
lol…your post made me laugh:-) Yes, I made pecan cookies…it’s the only really “Christmas” like thing I’ve done so far( and maybe the last ) but they were yummy as always. Aloha :-) A
Hey Angela,
I was checking out your sugar cookies from back in March…they look soooo good, but I need to find a healthy vegan frosting recipe. I don’t eat refined sugar, but the only recipes I can find have confectioner’s sugar in them. Do you have a good icing recipe?
Chocolate+mint = my favorite combo. I have to make these! I’ve made a few too many christmas cookies (and posted about them, including recipes) – gingerbread men, perppermint bars, peppermint bicotti, ginger cookies, etc. All are vegan too!