Saturday, June 24, 2006
These are the last photos from Happy Cookie Day '06! I went out that night and here's the Happy Cookie people I saw. . . WOOO! That was a good [made up] holiday!
Thursday, June 22, 2006
So today has been one of the hottest, and longest of the year! (Yesterday was the solstice.) I went on the "Free for Spare the Air" train ride, and made it to the Pizza Shop and everyone was there waiting for me! Turns out they all went in Mike's Bio-Deisel car, so I guess it's still acceptable for Spare the Air.
We had a nice (and verry tasty) pizza lunch, and then everyone went back to the trainstation to go on home. (Mike drove his car) We plaied sharades with Karen across the tracks since she was going north and everyone was going south.
ANYWAYS, later I went back to school because I realised that I forgot my ENTIRE BODY OF WORK from color class in the classroom two days ago and that's verry bad! I went and picked it up and realised that I also had forgotten one little thing about how I actually was supposed to be in my ceramics class today! OOPS, I guess I was just feeling accomplished since I spent the last 3 days in the ceramics lab working on my projects, so it sorta slipped my mind that I'm not actually finished yet. Anyways, I gave out a few cookies there too.
Heres the cookies that you had today...
Vegan Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
1 cup peanut butter (I use the all-natural just peanuts kind)
1/2 cup margarine (I use earth balance)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar ( or just use 1 cup vegan sugar + a few drops of molasses) Ener-G Egg Replacer equal to one egg (Both Ener-G and Flaxseeds + water work fine)
3 tablespoons thick soymilk or rice milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 and 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
generous pinch cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375. Cream together margarine and peanut butter. Add vegan sugar and cream well until fluffy, add egg replacer, soy milk, and vanilla and beat well. Combine dry ingredients and stir well, before adding to liquid ingredients. Drop by the teaspoon for small cookies or heaping tablespoon for bakery size cookies. Slightly flatten with back of spoon or with the end of a spool from sewing thread for flower pattern!(these will spread but not that much). Bake 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven when they seem underdone but lightly brown (still soft) and let cool 2-3 minutes on the sheets. Then cool completely.Serves: 36 cookies depending on size
ENJOY MANY OFFICIAL AND NON OFFICIAL COOKIE DAYS IN THE FUTURE!
-Katie
Vegan Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
1 cup peanut butter (I use the all-natural just peanuts kind)
1/2 cup margarine (I use earth balance)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar ( or just use 1 cup vegan sugar + a few drops of molasses) Ener-G Egg Replacer equal to one egg (Both Ener-G and Flaxseeds + water work fine)
3 tablespoons thick soymilk or rice milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 and 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
generous pinch cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375. Cream together margarine and peanut butter. Add vegan sugar and cream well until fluffy, add egg replacer, soy milk, and vanilla and beat well. Combine dry ingredients and stir well, before adding to liquid ingredients. Drop by the teaspoon for small cookies or heaping tablespoon for bakery size cookies. Slightly flatten with back of spoon or with the end of a spool from sewing thread for flower pattern!(these will spread but not that much). Bake 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven when they seem underdone but lightly brown (still soft) and let cool 2-3 minutes on the sheets. Then cool completely.Serves: 36 cookies depending on size
ENJOY MANY OFFICIAL AND NON OFFICIAL COOKIE DAYS IN THE FUTURE!
-Katie
So this is the day! Above are the preliminary first photo's of happy cookie people! Katie's cookies were AMAZING, so delicious and tasty! (We'll be posting some nice cookie recepies later. And a nice trick involving a spool!)
Today is also "Spare the Air Day" in California, and manny forms of public transportation are free, so to celebrate we're riding the train! I'll be passing out cookies along the way! See you all soon!
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
TOMORROW'S THE DAY!!!!!!
I'm excited, are you excited???
Katie is definetly in, and she's going to BAKE (yes, as in home made) cookies for the occation! I'll buy some extras from the store tomorrow morning.
I made some coppies of fliers today, so we're all set! Tomorrow's gonna be a happy day!
I'm excited, are you excited???
Katie is definetly in, and she's going to BAKE (yes, as in home made) cookies for the occation! I'll buy some extras from the store tomorrow morning.
I made some coppies of fliers today, so we're all set! Tomorrow's gonna be a happy day!
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
UPDATE,It looks like a friend of mine will also be helping out with IDCC. Her name is Katie and she says she wants to bake some cookies and wants to help pass out fliers and cookies! Yippie! I'm excited for cookie day, it's coming up. This Thursday! (06.22.06)
Also, I am using the nifty flier PDF from HappyCookie.org I'm modifying them with my own blog site address and making them ready for California cookie day!
Monday, June 12, 2006
Hello,My name is Peter.
I will be participating in the "International Day of the Chocolate Cookie" on June 22nd 2006. I will be handing out free chocolate cookies with the only catch being that you let me take a picture of you with your cookie. I will then post the picture on this blog!!! The whole idea started from a graphic design student in Berlin, and he has created a nice web site for the whole event.
That web site is happycookie.org
This blog's address is: california-cookie.blogspot.com
I hope to see you on IDCC! I will be at Foothill College that day, because I go to school there. It's in Los Altos Hills, California, yippie!
If you also decide to participate in IDCC, I would love to hear about it!
Please email me at standardsoil@gmail.com
