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I needed a vegan dessert for tonight’s dinner party, so I thought I’d give the World Peace Cookies a go. As they’re already eggless and made only with dark chocolate, we were most of the way there – I just needed to find a substitute for the butter.
My first attempt wasn’t too bad. I replaced the 150g unsalted butter with 125g canola oil and a tablespoon of water (butter in Australia is about 82% fat with water added). Instead of creaming the butter, I simply mixed the oil and water with the sugar. It was tricky to get it to emulsify, but the water helped. Then the dry ingredients were mixed in, and the slightly squishy dough shaped into logs and refrigerated overnight.
The cold logs were a tad tricky to cut, and I ended up squeezing the broken bits together, but they baked quite well! Personally, I miss the butter flavour, but Pete thinks it’s not too noticeable given the heavy cocoa and chocolate content. Definitely worth a try if you need a vegan cookie! The original recipe is here. ♥♥
Fig Jam and Lime Cordial 
Not noticeable with all the CHOCOLATE! Good job :)
These look lovely, but like you, I think I’d miss the buttery flavour. I could live without meat and fish, and learn to live without milk and cream, but eggs and butter are two reasons why I don’t think I could ever become a vegan…
Yum! If you don’t mind the flavour of coconut – and i think it goes well with dark choc – you might find it hardens a bit better and makes the mix easier to slice? Yeah, I try to source from happy hens and contented cows but butter…. mmm!
These sound good and I probably wou;dn’t miss the butter too much. Like katechiconi I’ve never take the step to be vegan because I’d really miss eggs in baking.
These looks amazing, I am going to try try this today