Valentine's Treat

For Valentine's Day I decided I had to make something heart-shaped and tasty. I rummaged through the kitchen and, surprise, surprise, had about 4 ingredients to work with. Fine.

I began my recipe search looking for a recipe for egg-free fortune cookies, all because the Vegan Lunch Box mentioned them. However, her link sends you to a company that sells them, not a nice recipe for me to follow. After another hour of scouring the internet, I found another vegan fortue cookie recipe, but, *sigh*, I had no Enrg egg replacer, which I'm scared of quite frankly. Boo.

Then I decided I wanted some type of not-too-sweet cookie that I would apply chocolate frosting to (the frosting from last week's cupcakes, sans tea) and make into sandwiches. My search began and ended at vegweb.com, my favorite recipe place. I found this recipe for shortbread cookies...but CRAP, I had no egg replacer. That's ok, we'll use applesauce. So I followed the recipe but added 1/2 cup of applesauce instead of fake egg. And the cookies came out lovely and shaped, mostly, like hearts. But since I love me a good challenge and always seem to be doing something to make life a little harder on myself, I accidentally broke my heart-shaped cookie cutter. No worries, I pulled through with about 26 delightful cookies.

So I followed the same frosting recipe from my cupcakes, only making 1/3 of the recipe. It came out fantastic and I put it in the fridge to cool it down some while the cookies cooled. Then I slathered it on the bottom of one cookie and attached another. Perfect!

I thought they tasted alright, but I eat anything. An independent taste tester said they were yummy, so we'll go with that, though I suspect he was just trying to be nice.

Some thoughts for next time I make them: I'd like to add some orange peel to the cookies for a little ooopmh. Or, I have some Godiva liquers that I got for Christmas and have no clue how to use, so I'd like to add them to the frosting. Some addition of strawberry would be nice, maybe pureed in the frosting? Instead of sandwiches, I may stick a thumbprint in each and fill with something tasty...like the last bit of my pumpkin butter from Trader Joe's. The possiblities really are endless.

Sorry, no pictures :(