Vegan Linden’s Cookies

Do you remember these packaged cookies? I sure do. I loved them as a child. My mom used to bring them home from her job. I devoured them slowly, breaking off portions of each of the three cookies’ circumferences. I placed each piece on my tongue, like communion. Years later I found my high school cafeteria stocked them and so I partook again. A pack in 10 was fresh but that didn’t matter. They were just as good stale.

Flash forward many, many years later, the chocolate chip cookie is still my favorite. Unlike the masses, the pleasure I receive from the chocolate chip cookie is in the area of the cookie between the chocolate chips. Sure, the chips are essential but… chocolate is easy. I never have to look very far for a good chunk of chocolate. Getting the cookie right is another story. Too much sweet, too crisp a crunch, too chewy a softness, too dark a pale brown and you’ve got hundreds of ways to mess it up. This being the case, I have a critique for every vegan packaged chocolate chip cookie out there, though I, of course, partake on occasion. (If you must know, it is Uncle Eddie’s that have won my highest praises as they know the value and utmost importance of quality sea salt.) But then this morning at my usual coffee spot I grabbed a The Essential chocolate chip cookie from Cindy Klotz. I have had one of these before but as I broke off portions of the cookie’s circumference this time… magic. The cookie tasted exactly like a Linden’s. Had it been half its thickness I would have been totally convinced. Nostalgic vegan make-overs are almost caught up with my past… Someone needs to get on the Boo Berry a.s.a.p.