Sorry, but this post will not be honoring our Presidents in anyway… I wish I were creative enough to come up with Washington Cherry Tree Cupcakes or something, but I’m not! For me, this long weekend was the perfect opportunity to use my new zester!!! My lovely mom and source of all my kitchen supplies (see the previous post featuring my KitchenAid mixer) bought me a zester from Pottery Barn. I was of course ecstatic because any baker worth their cupcakes knows how hard it is to zest a citrus fruit without one. I was also on a quest to bake something for my blog that wasn’t brown and chocolatey. Last week’s post was a little more colorful and I decided to continue with that theme. I love bright colors, which is why you will see me walking down the street in a cornucopia of brightly colored coats (orange, blue, etc.). This post features Citrus Glitters! And my version really does glitter because I used yellow sprinkles instead of the boring brown demerara* stuff!!
I broke down this weekend and bought the cookbook Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. I read the authors’ blog Post Punk Kitchen almost every day on my lunch hour and every recipe I have made from the site is delicious. I say “broke down” because I’ve been trying to save money, but I realized I would have access to a plethora of vegan cookie recipes and vegan baking secrets if I forked over the 15 or so bucks for the cookbook. I was tempted to order it on my kindle, but I have the original kindle, which means no pretty pictures come through and in my opinion that is the best part of a cookbook…seeing how the things you make should look!
The Citrus Glitters were incredibly easy to make (here is a variation of the recipe posted on someone’s blog). Overall the making of the dough only took about 20 minutes and requires only one bowl, which is my idea of baking (less cleaning up!). I bought the ingredients from memory (this is why you should go to the grocery store with a complete list) and bought double the citrus fruit I needed, which was the perfect excuse to make two batches—an orange and a lemon batch. These cookies are delicious—they are so light and the shortbread taste with the citrus tang is the perfect combination. They would taste really good with tea or coffee. In the second batch, I squeezed some extra lemon juice in, which really gave them a lemony kick. Of course, I underbaked them (one minute less than recommended in the book) because I like my cookies soft and chewy.
These cookies were the perfect carb-loading cookie (in addition to my all-day Sunday eating binge at various restaurants in Virginia) because I started my training for the Cherry Blossom Ten Miler this weekend. Anyone else training for it? Anyone want to run together once in awhile? I am missing my running buddies from training for the Pig last year!
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