I have talked ad nauseam on this vanity project about my
love of chocolate. Generally, I
prefer brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and any other baked good where the
flour, tofu egg substitute, and sugar are simply a platform for chocolate,
which is why I had yet to make shortbread before last weekend. I was the kid
that begged my mom to forget about ordering a box of each Girl Scout cookie and
skip the shortbread cookies for an extra box of thin mints!
But last weekend I decided I needed to bite the bullet and
try the whole shortbread thing…it really helped that this shortbread cookie
recipe called for an overflowing teaspoon of chocolate ganache in the
middle. This is another Vegan Cookies
Invade Your Cookie Jar recipe and per usual it was delicious! I brought these
as a snack for poker night—I mean what poker night is complete without a little
shortbread and ganache—wait, what? You don’t get it? You must not play poker
the classy way like we do! The cookies were a hit and I have yet to hear from
Grandma Min that they are a “little rich” so that means the shortbread did its
job in balancing out the rich chocolate ganache!
I also made my second attempt at sourdough bread last
weekend and it turned out much better than the first. I used this recipe and followed my Aunt’s advice of scoring
the top of the bread and baking it with a pan of water on the bottom rack of
the oven. The bread was much more
bread-like this time—light and fluffy in the middle with a crunchy crust!
In other news, I found dairy-free mini chocolate chips at
the grocery store and it’s a four day weekend so you all will have another blog
post to look forward to very soon (wow my life is exciting)!
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