Valentine’s Day Overboard Cookies Craziness

Name: Valentine’s Day Overboard Cookies Craziness
Yield: makes 1 massive cookies
Ingredients: 1 cup melted refined coconut oil or canola oil, plus more for brushing the pan; 6 tablespoons unsweetened applesauce; 2 tablespoons vanilla extract; 1 1/4 cups vegan sugar; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 1/4 cups Bob’s Red Mill All-Purpose Gluten-Free Baking Flour; 1/4 cup flax meal; 1 1/2 teaspoons xanthan gum; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 cup vegan gluten-free chocolate chips; Vanilla Icing (page 127), chilled in the refrigerator for 4 hours

December 9, 2011

I grew up as that weird kid who disliked frosting and cake in general. But if it meant I could get one of those massive Valentine’s Day cookies in the window at Mrs. Fields, I was willing to endure any amount of frosting, icing, or similar childhood misery. You can use any cookie recipe in this book to make this fantastical creation, obviously, but I went ahead and developed a third chocolate chip version (in addition to the bakery standard in the first book and the Chips Ahoy! in this one) to mimic what is found in Mrs. Fields’s venerable kitchens. It’s big and it’s bold and it’s buttery. It’s practically a Toll House cookie, if that helps you imagine.

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