Do you want a quick, easy, healthy snack?!!?
Hey, shut up for a second and listen to me, because I have your answer!
It can even be put into bars! Maybe! I don’t CARE!
INGREDIENTS!!!
LET’S GET TO IT! YOU WON’T BELIEVE HOW EASY THESE ARE. READ ON TO LEARN MORE.
There are many fall-themed cocktails out there, and with Thanksgiving coming up, now is a good time to practice with them.
Here are two fall-themed cocktails that I am making for a Friendsgiving today (UPDATE: they were a success. I think the group was evenly split with which one they liked better). I tested them last night and they are fantastic, and I can only imagine how good they will be today since I let both alcohols infuse overnight with delicious fall flavors.
You will not believe what ingredients I used!!!*
*(You probably CAN believe it: they are rosemary in bourbon and cinnamon, all spice, cloves and star anise in rye).
After several months of weary transition and heavy work load, I needed some creativity in my life.
It was time to experiment with some cocktail mixing.
I purchased the book “Shake: A New Perspective on Cocktails” at a yuppie store that I like to judge yet would love to own half the things in that store. I almost bought the $36 mason jar cocktail shaker, which seems great and I reallllly wanted it, but I would rather make a DIY mason jar shaker by drilling holes in the top.
My friend and I looked through the book and since we are in the weird middle season of winter-figuring-out-if-it-should-die-and-let-spring-come-forth, we thumbed through the winter and spring cocktails, considered which booze and ingredients we had at our homes, and came up with four.
This post is just me reporting on what we made and drank and what we thought of it.
WARNING: Photos taken on an iPhone, not my awesome camera. Beware.
NOTE: Honey is not vegan. So two out of the three cookie recipes being tested are vegan, just not the one that uses honey.
Here is a recipe for a very healthy and very tasty chocolate chip cookie, and it happens to also be vegan and gluten free!
This post will be examining three different batches of this recipe with a change in one ingredient: the sweetener. Specifically, we’ll make one batch using maple syrup, one using honey, and one using raw agave nectar.
This recipe and test idea was suggested by my friend Margaret. I’m always down for testing anything chocolate for a friend. And for “science.”
