Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 January 2014

Devilishly Tasty Vegan Peanut Butter & Choc Chip Cookies



YUM!

These bad boys are the perfect combination of gooey on the inside and crunchy on the outside. I made these the other day, and they were demolished in no time at all by the rest of my family.  Oh and did I mention that they are incredibly easy to make?

This recipe makes about 20 medium sized cookies.

Ingredients:
180g peanut butter
80g margarine
180g brown sugar
120ml unsweetened almond milk
1/2tsp vanilla extract
1/4tsp salt
1tsp baking powder
240g plain flour
120g vegan chocolate chips (I used more)

1. Preheat your oven to 350°F/180°C.
2. In a nice, big bowl whip up your peanut butter with the sugar and margarine, and then add your vanilla extract and the almond milk.  Mix it all up together until you have a creamy mixture.
3. Pop in the baking powder and then sift in the flour. Add in your pinch of salt and mix it all up.
4.  Lastly, fold in the chocolate chips. Use as many as you want!
5.  Place a piece of baking paper on a tray so that your delicious cookies don't stick. Roll your mixture into little balls, using approximately a tablespoon sized dollop each time.
6.  Stick the bad boys in the oven for about 10 minutes.
7.  Take them out, and using a fork push down on each cookie until its flat. Then put them back in the oven for another 2-3 minutes.
8.  Remove them from the baking tray and place them on a cooling rack for about 10 minutes.
9.  Voila!














These cookies make the perfection addition to basically everything from office treat days to birthdays to afternoon tea to a midnight snack to a cup of tea and a biscuit with friends.  You get the picture.

Enjoy! (And let me know of any tweaks you come up with to make them more delicious!)

Friday, 9 August 2013

Palaces & Dessert in Berlin

I had the day to myself in Berlin as Chewy had gone to do some sightseeing elsewhere with his parents, and decided to go shopping, the results of which you'll see in later blog posts.  So as not to be completely uncultural, I decided to visit the Charlottenburg Palace.  It was absolutely beautiful, and unfortunately I can't even share photos with you as you aren't allowed to take any inside.  So the 2 photos I took from the outside will have to do! 



 

After shopping and sightseeing I was famished.  Continuing on the general theme of 'treating myself' (with all the money I don't have), I went to the foodcourt in the KaDeWe for a very late lunch at 4pm.  I had a selection of salads which was very tasty, and now let me tell you about the bread roll.  It was fresh out of the oven and steaming hot, and they have these ultra delicious, cute, little butter numbers with olives, and garlic and herbs in them.  I can't recommend these enough!





Needless to say, after all that savoury there needed to be some sweet.  I'll let the pictures do the talking.




 

No photos of me today, and the quality of the food photos isn't great as I'm still relying on an iphone camera.  But I thought I'd share my lovely little day with you all anyway!