rants & recipes

Lately, I've been craving sugar cookies - big, chewy ones with crunchy edges, like I used to get at the mall (usually with M&M's in them). So I gave an old recipe a test-run before deciding what delicious stuff to add in - like toasted pecans or mini chocolate chips - next time!

• 1 cup all purpose flour (120 grams)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup shortening (50 grams ... my original notes said 1/8 cup but I just realized, typing this, that I screwed up - they were still yummy but feel free to decrease a tad from 1/4 cup)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp corn syrup
• 1 1/2 tsp applesauce
• 1/2 tbsp eneg-r egg replacer
• 2 tbsp soymilk
• 2 tsp extract - I used 1 tsp lemon, 1 vanilla - Evin thought they had too much lemon flavor so I may decrease that next time.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix flour, baking powder, salt, sugar together in a bowl.
3. Cut shortening into dry mix.
4. Combine ener-g, soymilk, applesauce, corn syrup and extracts together. Mix well.
5. Add wet to dry mix, and mix, by hand, kneeding together until all dry ingredients are incorporated.
6. Cut dough into 6 pieces, roll into balls and mostly flatten onto greased cookie sheet.
7. Bake for 12-15 minutes, flattening cookies slightly with spatula after about 8 minutes.
8. Remove from pan and cool on wire racks.