Christmas Vegan Cookie Bake-a-thon

I used the ton of leftover gingerbread dough I had from my attempt at constructing a gingerbread house to roll out a tons of gingerbread hearts. (I said “gingerbread” three times in that sentence!) These perfect ginger-nibbles were topped with coconut.

Oatmeal Cookies

If I had to pick a cookie that did not meet my standards, it would be these. I got a bit overzealous with this simple oatmeal recipe by throwing the kitchen sink in: dried apricots, currants, raisins, as well as chopped walnut. The batter was a bit Better Off Dead-“You Like Raisins”-esque. Considering I didn’t put many in my recipients cookie boxes… so now I have plenty left over.

I used VCON‘s chocolate-chocolate chip recipe to create the batter for these beauties but I was out of sugar! I decided to use the Ahlaksa hot chocolate mix that had been in my cupboard for years. It was basically all sugar and cocoa powder anyway. I also added ground up CandyPenny-grounded candy cane for peppermint flavor and sugar.

I’ve blogged about this recipe like a million times. My banana muffins. I wanted them to be part of the festivities so I baked little dollops of the delicious batter to create these bite-size cake cookies. How wonderful! However I fear the banana aroma will overtake the other cookies when they’re boxed.

Another recipe I’ve blogged about.  No cookie assortment is complete without my favorite, the standard chocolate chip cookie. No bells or whistles just cookie perfection. I am a no-frills cookie connoisseur and prefer a good ol’ chocolate chip cookie to a green tea-rosewater-cardamon jammed-thumbprint, or other such complicated cookie combo, any day.

And there you have it! The gift of cookie.