Mexican No Bake Cookies

Have you ever had Mexican Hot Chocolate?  This delicious variation on no bake cookies is a great way to spice up any party!

Ingredients:
3/4 cup *vanilla soy milk
1/4 butter/margarine
1 cup peanut butter
3 cups brown sugar
7 TBS cocoa powder
**1 tsp. ground cloves
**2 tsp. cinnamon
3 cups oats

Directions: Melt butter/margarine and heat milk at same time on medium/low.  Stir in peanut butter and brown sugar until smooth.  Add cocoa powder and spices.  Again, keep on the heat and keep stirring until smooth.   Add the oats and blend until chocolate mixture evenly coats the oats.  Keep on the heat, occasionally stirring for two minutes.  Remove from heat and spoon cookies onto foil, wax paper, or a chilled plate.  Refrigerate until firm.  You should be able to handle the cookies easily without getting your fingers covered in chocolate goo.

*You may use 2/3 cup dairy milk and 2 TBS real vanilla instead of the vanilla soy milk
** If you aren't sure if you will like spice in the chocolate cookie, try putting in only half of the recommended spices.

Egg Substitute

The runner-up for the best egg substitute when baking is...

1/4 dairy milk with 1 tsp baking powder.

And the winner  of the best egg substitute when baking is....

Drum roll please

1/4 cup soy milk with 1 tsp. baking powder!

So... after more than a year, here I am updating this blog.

A lot has happened in that year.  First of all, I learned that eggs will always make me sick regardless of the processing.  True story.  I ate eggs at my sister's house and she raises her own chickens -no antibiotics, bleach, hormones, or processing.  My stomach cramped up and I became absolutely miserable.  My skin broke out.  I now do not cook with eggs.

I was told by a couple men that they found my dietary restrictions odd.  One even had the courtesy to put it this way:  "I don't think that I'll ever have enough love you enough to endure what you go through.  You can't eat out, and you can't go to a water park."  Haha.  One, I can eat out with limited success.  Two, I never even suggested that I would expect someone else to live by the same restrictions that I do.  Pardon me if I don't eat stuff I'm allergic to in your presence.  You're certainly welcome to eat in front of me.  Seriously.  I don't care.  If I wanted it badly enough, then I'd live with the consequences.

In coming posts, I shall share what I have learned about egg substitutes.