Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar: 100 Dairy-Free Recipes for Everyone’s Favorite Treats
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Don’t run. Don’t hide. Vegan cookies are going to invade your cookie jar, one delicious bite at a time. Join award-winning bakers Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero (authors of the hit cookbook Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World) as they continue their world-domination mission—with dairy- and egg-free batches of everyone’s favorite treats.
Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar includes more than 100 irresistible recipes for cookies, bars, biscotti, brownies, and more. Discover festive desserts that are sure to impress family and friends at any occasion, from birthdays to bake sales. Or simply tempt yourself with:
· Magical Coconut Cookie Bars
· Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Brownies
· Peanut Butter Crisscrosses
· NYC Black & Whites
· Key Lime Shortbread Rounds
· Call Me Blondies
· Macadamia Lace Cookies
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Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar: 100 Dairy-Free Recipes for Everyone’s Favorite Treats
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This book is a great resource for vegan cookies. Cookies! That are vegan! That’s awesome. And there are very cool, original, and delicious ingredient combinations. The sweet wine cookies with sesame seeds are awesome! The Mexican hot chocolate cookies are awesome! The pine nut cookies are awesome! The photographs in this book are mouth-wateringly awesome! And another exciting aspect is that it’s perfectly doable to get cookies looking as beautiful as the ones in the pictures.
A big plus for me in this book is the successful balance of ingredients you already have in your pantry, ingredients you can get at a regular grocery store, fun ingredients for treats and parties (like different sugars, flours, extracts, wines, seeds, etc.) and expensive ingredients for an even more special treat.
What bugs me is that the cookies don’t actually taste that amazing. It’s not always worth it to get those special ingredients to use on these. A huge part of it for me is that almost all of these call for canola oil where a non-vegan recipe would call for butter and/or shortening. Canola oil by itself just doesn’t taste nearly as good as earth balance! If you’re worried about cookies tasting too “vegan” and basically too much like earth balance / margarine instead of butter to nonvegans, use half earth balance, half oil, or half earth balance, half 100% vegetable shortening (unflavored, I mean, unlike the earth balance) or whatever. And as an experienced vegan baker, my cookies usually only taste “too vegan” to grumpy non-vegans eating shortbread (AKA butter) cookies, in which earth balance is the main ingredient. If there’s chocolate or peanut butter or another strong flavor, the earth balance will just taste rich and flaky.
I’m sure that many people will appreciate that the oil makes these cookies healthier or lower in fat or whatever. I personally want a gourmet vegan cookie book to make delicious, rich, decadent cookies, not to be healthy! I would have appreciated a better balance of these goals.
Overall, definitely worth it. If you’re as bothered as I am by the canola oil, it’s not a big deal to switch it out for earth balance (though I would’ve appreciate that being in the book itself). The recipes are fun and there’s something for every skill level.
Also, this book is WAY better than the Joy of Vegan Baking.
If you’re not vegan, don’t be deterred–this cookbook is on a par with any other cookie compilation (Martha Stewart’s Cookies, The All-American Cookie Book, The Williams-Sonoma Collection: Cookies). It includes fool-proof recipes for the classics (chocolate crinkle cookies, PB cookies, lemon bars), plus tons of new recipes (key lime shortbread rounds, macadamia ginger crunch drops) that are sure to impress. The directions are clear, the ingredients are common, and the results are delicious! No one would ever suspect ANY of the cookies are vegan. And you can eat the batter without any fear of salmonella or the other nasty things that lurk in dairy products!
Like all the books from Isa and Terry (Vegan Brunch, Veganomicon, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, and my favorite oldie Vegan with a Vengeance), this one is a winner. I just made a batch of the chocolate agave trailmixers (substituting carob for chocolate) and was very pleased with the result. They are like little brownie cookies with extra fun bits inside.
The format of the book is very much like the cupcakes book. It is easy to follow, has loads of great photos, and very handy tips all along the way. A big hit and a top rating from me. Now I’ve got to have a cookie with some almond milk!
I’ve been looking forward to this book since I realized it was coming out. Moskowitz and Romero are the authors of two of my favorite cookbooks, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World, and Veganomicon, and I’ve come to rely on them for sure-thing recipes. Cookies are my choice indulgence so I’m thrilled to have Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar.
I just got it, so I haven’t had time to try all of the recipes yet but I can vouch big time for the Peanut Butter Chocolate Pillows–dramatic presentation and yummy! I can’t wait to try the Key Lime Cookies, Lazy Samoas, and Chocolate Chip Biscotti. This is perfect timing for the holidays! There’s nothing like a nice assortment of cookies on the table for parties and desserts.
The recipes are straightforward and the tone is entertaining. There is a warmth and sense of humor that pervades. I love the way they understand their readers and can anticipate little tidbits we need to know, like how and when to make substitutions and cookie troubleshooting. They have a gluten free flour mix for those who need that option and a primer on ingredients.
This book has lots of fab photos and is the sister book to their cupcake book–same format. It’s funky and fun and would make an awesome holiday gift for vegans and non-vegans alike. Highly recommended for every kitchen!
I love this cookbook! I’ve been waiting patiently for a vegan cookie cookbook and my wish was granted in the form of Isa & Terry’s book. You can’t go wrong with any of Isa and Terry’s cookbooks – their recipes are well thoughtout and thourougly tested before book goes to publication.
You MUST buy this book for the Mexican Chocolate Snickerdoodle cookies alone – they will blow your mind! The Irish Kiss cookies are also amazingly delicious.
Buy this cookbook – you won’t regreat it!