Question
Tiffiny Mitchell
Is there a way to do make sugar cookies with icing in a way that is whole food and plant based?
Answer
So Tiffany, there are lots of recipes that are vegan, healthy-ish and absolutely delicious. Like my chocolate cake for example, or the pudding or in terms of a sugar cookie though, sugar cookie is really a very simple recipe. It's basically flour cane sugar and a fat like butter creamed in. Um, I actually do sugar cookies sometimes with oil replacing the oil. And when I replace oil, when I use oil in place of butter, I use about three quarters of the amount. However, the fat and the sugar, which is significant in a sugar cookie is what gives it the texture, the consistency, the texture, and the flavor that you are missing. So I would say the answer is you're not going to get the same thing at all. And I would encourage you to find a whole food plant-based, and by that you might mean whole food plant-based, no oil recipe that is already in place, not a sugar cookie. Whole food plant-based cookies tend to be chewier than a, you know, we, I mean a vegan cookie is still or mine are, or in this course our recipes are whole foods to a great extent with very few exceptions. But a sugar cookie is going to be hard to do in a whole food plant-based way. If at all. If anybody disagrees with me, I would really like to know that I'm always looking for information and I've said this before, um, one of the things that I love the most about culinary is there's always something new to learn.
