Somehow it’s already NOVEMBER, so that means it is time for the next installment of Whisks + Whiskey, the column in which I get mildly to moderately intoxicated and try to bake delicious things. (Rules can be found here.)
When looking for a recipe to test out this month I couldn’t decide if I wanted to go the pumpkin route again or not, because technically pumpkin is still very much in season. However, since last month was pretty aggressively Pumpkin Month, I figured I’d branch out. November, when it’s not an election year, doesn’t generally have much going on other than Thanksgiving, so I figured I’d try to find a recipe that related to the holiday somehow without having to make a pie. (Because honestly pie isn’t even that good. Sorry, I’m not sorry.)
I don’t know about anyone else, but the main dishes I truly care about on Thanksgiving are the stuffing and the cranberry sauce. Everything else could accidentally burn to a crisp, but as long as the stuffing and cranberry sauce was safe it would be a pretty good Thanksgiving for me. (Although if you managed to burn a can of cranberry sauce what were even you DOING??)
While the recipe for the cranberry chocolate chip cookies is vegan, the dark chocolate chips I picked up turned out not to be vegan, so I guess I made (almost) vegan cranberry chocolate chip cookies.
Time started: 8:15 pm (also it was a Sunday night because I like to live on the wild side.)
What I’m drinking: Ben and Jerry’s recently partnered with New Belgium to make a Cookie Dough Ale that is brewed with chocolate and vanilla. It sounded pretty crazy and I didn’t know what to expect, but since the collaboration was meant to help “protect our winters and combat climate change” it seemed to go well with the fact that I was making a vegan recipe. (Living and eating vegan is actually really good for the environment.) The beer was interesting to say the least, the first sip does taste a bit like cookie dough but then the aftertaste is jut beer. It wasn’t bad, but I don’t think I’d necessarily pick it up again. Oh, and I also had a shot of whiskey.
Estimated difficulty: 2/5
Cookies are generally a pretty simple task but I wasn’t sure if the vegan side of things would be slightly challenging.
Challenges (besides being intoxicated): I actually didn’t run into any troubles with this recipe. It was probably a bit too easy, so I guess I’ll have to stay away from cookies from now on.
Time finished: 10:30
Results
My drunk opinion: I don’t know if I just can’t taste things very well when I’m drunk, but I couldn’t really taste the cranberries. Otherwise, they were really good oatmeal, chocolate chip cookies.
Mollie’s opinion: It was pretty good, I’ll give it to you. (She was skeptical about the cranberries and the veganism. She also brought some home to her roommate so…)
Rylee’s opinion: Really good, could use more of a crunchy factor though.
My sober morning opinion: The cranberry taste is pretty subtle, but I would definitely make them again.
Final deliciousness rating: 8/10
If you’d like to test out the recipe for yourself you can find it here.
Christmas is just a month away so prepare yourself for some ~*~holiday baking~*~
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