Vegan mint chocolate dipped shortbread
This is for your own good, guys.
Buried under emails and magazine covers and infomercials telling you to:
“Melt Fat INSTANTLY!”
“Avoid Winter Weight Gain!”
“Don’t Look Like Santa this Holiday Season!”
Don’t you kind of just want someone to tell you to eat a cookie? Let me be that person…
Look, it’s not as if I’m over here laying on the couch with a tray balanced precariously on a newly formed potbelly eating cookies a dozen at a time. But I’m also not skipping meals and doubling up workouts to build up a cookie calorie allowance. That is crazy talk.
I’m eating like I always do, working out like I always do and eating cookies when I damn well please. I’m studying to be a dietitian, yes. I consider the consumption of holiday cookies to be an integral part of a diet that is both healthy and sane. And delicious.
Hello, lovelies.
For these cookies, I used a recipe from Versatile Vegetarian Kitchen, which, interestingly enough, uses oil instead of butter. Traditional shortbread is one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts oat flour. I wish I’d known that going into this because there are no oats to be found in my shortbread. Nevertheless, these mild, buttery, crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth delights serve as a perfect vessel for shuttling mint chocolate straight to your face.
Dunk us in coffee! Dunk us in coffee!
Of course I neglected to measure anything when I made my mint chocolate dip. It went something like:
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 2 teaspoons peppermint extract
- non-dairy milk
Heat chocolate chips and peppermint extract over a double boiler. As the chips start to melt, add milk 1 tablespoon at a time until a desired smooth consistency is achieved. Dip cookies in. Leave to set in fridge (or eat immediately, no one’s looking).
Now. If you’ll excuse me, my four outdoor strays and two indoor idiots are attempting to host a battle to the death… on opposite sides of the window…
Day 1: Gingerbread cookies
Totally love your outlook. I am so sick of the articles/radio commercials/Internet ads telling me that I am going to gain a thousand pounds this holiday season if I have ANY food/drink related fun. Rock/cookie on.
If I read one more “Staying fit on the holidays” post, I will scream.
It’s just a few days out of the year. Eat what you want. Exercise when you want. Enjoy yourself with your family and don’t worry about food for once! If you gain 1-2lbs, so what? Once you get back on your normal schedule then things will be fine.
Thank you for telling me to eat a cookie. Between work bs and a new puppy taking over my life (she’s worth it), I need a cookie or 4 in my life.
The mint chocolate dip sounds amazing.
agghh, thank you!! it’s one time of the year, and seeing articles plastered everywhere about avoiding this and that gets annoying. Eat a cookie! We only live once, and I never want to look back and think “gee, I wish I’d eaten more shortbread.”
On that note, I’m baking more cookies tomorrow
I love holiday baking!! Shortbread dipped in mint chocolate sounds perfect <3