M & Thousand Cookies; Meatless Monday

This post service was meant to endure posted on Monday.The final Mon of 2014.Unfortunately, I could non larn to it.But I all the same wishing it to endure dedicated to the wonderful squad at Meatless Monday, hither inwards New York. I believe that they practise remarkable, rewarding work.A particular refer of Vanessa Protass too Diana Rice, the wonderful ladies who made it possible for my Cornmeal Upma recipe to endure published inwards their "chocolate chip cookies for them. My fille has been bespeak me to bake closed to M&M cookies for a piece now. Other twenty-four hr current when my hubby was most to choose grip of a handbag of M&M cookies, I told him, "don't bother;I volition bake a batch ". That gave me the necessary impetus to bake this batch. I accept also been important to essay this recipe that I came across that uses a trivial corn flour amongst the regular flour. I must tell the outcome was good. The cookies were dainty too decadent amongst a variety of soft, cakey texture inwards the middle.The soft texture is also due to the improver of to a greater extent than baking pulverisation than baking soda. The cookies rising good too don't spread every bit much. Baking is such a science! Little chip of variation inwards the rising agent, the type of flour used too the type of carbohydrate used tin dismiss brand such a huge deviation in the texture of the cookies. Anyways,the cookies were all gone inside a span of days! You tin dismiss notice the master copy recipe here.

Servings: makes 24 medium-sized cookies.

Ingredients:

Flour: ii cups
Corn flour/corn starch : ii tsp
Baking powder: 1tsp
Baking soda:1/2 tsp
Salt: a pinch
Unsalted Butter/ kokosnoot oil: 1/2 loving cup or 1 stick
Flaxmeal: ii tbsp mixed inwards half-dozen tbsp H2O ( or operate ii eggs)
Brown sugar: 1/3 cup
White sugar: 1/2 cup
Vanilla essence: 1 1/2 tsp
M&M candies : 1 cup
Chocolate chips: 1/2 cup

Method:

Mix Flaxmeal too H2O too occur aside.

Cream the butter/oil too carbohydrate together. Add vanilla essence, baking powder, baking soda, salt, Flaxmeal too H2O mixture too mix well. Now add together the cornflour too the flour trivial past times trivial until combined. Do non overmix!

Stir inwards the M&Ms too chocolate chips. Keep it inwards the fridge for 1-2 hours.

Preheat the oven to 350 deg F or 180 deg C.

Line a baking tray amongst parchment newspaper too occur ready.

Use a spoon or H2O ice cream scoop too identify pocket-size balls of equal size on the baking tray at to the lowest degree ii inches apart.

Place the tray on the centre rack of the oven an bake for 10-12 minutes or until a toothpick comes out build clean when inserted into the centre of the cookies.

Take the cookies out too permit it cool downward on a cooling rack. Don't worry if the centre of the cookies seems a trivial soft. They harden upon cooking down.

Enjoy amongst a drinking glass of milk or simply similar that!

Store inwards an airtight container. Stays fresh or upwards to 1 week.

Happy Holidays!

Cooking made easy:

Keeping the cookie batter inwards the fridge for at to the lowest degree an hour, keeps it from spreading upon baking. If inwards a hurry, occur the cookie dough inwards the freezer for 20-30 mins too and then bake.

Most cookie batters ( dough)can endure made ahead of fourth dimension ( read leisure) too baked inwards portions every bit needed. This agency you lot tin dismiss accept freshly baked cookies inside 10 mins when your pump desires!! How cool is that!

Tip for salubrious living:

Store-bought cookies accept several ingredients that accept been added to increase the shelf-life of the cookies. When consumed inwards excess, this may accept a detrimental lawsuit on the wellness of the children. Also, shortening is ofttimes used instead of butter. Shortening has saturated fats too ane time again tin dismiss accept a deleterious lawsuit on our health. Hence it is best to swallow less processed locally made foods. Even better, larn inwards at home. Remember, the longer the shelf-life of a nutrient product, the to a greater extent than processed it is!

Food for thought:

He who has health, has hope; too he who has hope, has everything.Thomas Carlyle