{"id":4746,"date":"2012-02-25T16:38:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T21:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?page_id=4746"},"modified":"2012-03-01T10:33:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T15:33:57","slug":"vegan-raspberry-chocolate-thumbprint-cookies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/recipes\/vegan-raspberry-chocolate-thumbprint-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Raspberry-Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cookies cooling in the sunroom<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

So I got the original of this recipe<\/a> in my email (I must’ve subscribed to recipe updates from what is essentially a cookware catalog<\/a>). Usually I take one look at the recipes and think, “umm, no”, but I read this one and realized that it was vegan, so I decided to try it.<\/p>\n

I made a couple of changes – no whole wheat flour – I think that would’ve been just too healthy – and I used thawed, undiluted apple juice concentrate. These are still no-processed-sugar cookies, except for what’s in the jam and the chocolate chips.<\/p>\n

1 cup whole almonds
\n1 1\/2 cups unbleached white flour
\n1\/2 cup oat flour – I bought mine at the co-op, but you can make pretty good oat flour by grinding up some oatmeal in a food processor or blendor
\n2 teaspoons baking powder
\n1\/4 teaspoon salt
\n1\/3 cup light oil, such as safflower or canola
\n1\/3 cup maple syrup
\n1\/4 cup apple juice concentrate, thawed
\n1 teaspoon almond extract
\n1 teaspoon vanilla extract
\n1\/3 cup chocolate chips, preferably bittersweet
\n2 tablespoons raspberry preserves<\/p>\n

Preheat to 350\u00b0F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.<\/p>\n

Grind the almonds in a food processor in until finely ground. Transfer to a large bowl, or the bowl of a stand mixer, and add the flour, oat flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk together the oil, maple syrup, apple juice, almond and vanilla extracts – a spouted glass measuring cup works well for this. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and mix to combine. Use your hands to knead the dough together; add 1 to 2 tablespoons additional apple juice if the mixture is too crumbly.<\/p>\n

Form level tablespoonfuls of dough into balls and place on the prepared baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Make an indentation in the center using your thumb or the handle of a wooden spoon. Place a few chocolate chips in each indentation, then cover with 1\/4 teaspoon jam.<\/p>\n

Bake the cookies, one batch at a time, until golden around the edges, 15 to 17 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cookies cooling in the sunroom So I got the original of this recipe in my email (I must’ve subscribed to recipe updates from what is essentially a cookware catalog). Usually I take one look at the recipes and think, “umm, no”, but I read this one and realized that it was vegan, so I decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":402,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4746","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4746\/revisions\/4765"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}