vegan chocolate gem bites
vegan chocolate gem bites
alias pms bomblettes
½ cup veggie shortening (cold)
½ cup beet sugar
cream together and freeze for 8 minutes (I didn’t time this, but I think long enough to clean all the clothes and books and vibrators off my bed and straighten the covers, and put away a load of dishes to make way for another load in our teeny kitchen translates to about 8 minutes.)
preheat the oven to 350º
Sift together:
1 ¼ cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of salt
2 tablespoons of cocoa powder
take the bowl from the freezer and sift the dry ingredients (sifting for the second time) into the shortening and sugar. Pour:
2 tablespoons of molasses
over the mix and stir together. Add:
1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips
stir until just combined. Wodge the dough into a mini-muffin tray greased with a little veggie oil. Depending on how much raw dough you eat, it makes about 10 mini-muffin cookies.
make a depression with your thumb in half of them (or all of them or whatever, I just like to do half and half) and spoon jam into it. I used strawberry rhubarb, which is delicious. Raspberry would be another excellent choice. I made half the strawberry-rhubarb gems with ginger spread too.
bake for 10 minutes. Let them sit in their pan on a rack until cool, about half an hour. They fall apart when they are still hot.
so – do you think they should be called vegan chocolate gems when they have jam, the jam being gem-like? And vegan chocolate bites when they are plain? Sweet semantics.
when you were small, did you sit in the ocean, the bath tub, the lake
and pour water for the sheer joy of pouring water?
