Lavender Chocolate Chip Cookies

The smell of these pretty little cookies cooking is wonderful. Lavender and chocolate was wafting around the kitchen while Edith Piaf was playing on the stereo. Yes it really was. (Everyone has there own personal favourite baking music and mine happens to be either Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday, Ok?)


It made me feel a little nostalgic.


Interesting fact, the term nostaligia describes a yearning for the past, often in idealised form. The word orginated from the Greeks (surprise, surprise), consisting of νόστος(nóstos), meaning "homecoming" and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain, ache".
Which is a fairly accurate description since I don't really recall smells of lavender and chocolate wafting around our kitchen as a child and I don't believe my parents were great fans of 1950's jazz.


These cookies can be adapted to almost any flavour you're craving as the not-so-secret ingredient is flavoured chocolate. 'Seed & Bean' has a wide selection of vegan chocolate, including lavender. 


www.seedandbean.co.uk

Lavender Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

85g block of chopped up Seed & Bean lavender chocolate

1 cup raw sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 hazelnut soymilk

How to:

Preheat oven to 170 degrees. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon into a bowl, add chocolate pieces. Mix together and create a well in the middle of the bowl.

In another bowl combine the vegetable oil with the sugar and mix well. Add the vanilla and hazelnut soymilk and mix before adding to the well of the dry ingredients.

Mix well but make sure not to over mix it.

Roll into small balls and place on a baking tray. Press down on each ball it a fork and place in the oven for 12-15 minutes.

Hope these cookies make you feel as warm and fuzzy inside as they made me!

Step two: Find a job at a veggie restaurant..

Ok so this one is a little bit harder to come by... but if you do get the opportunity then this is by far the best way to get cheap vegan food.. in fact it's actually free!

Hurray for the pros of working in hospitality!

I've been lucky enough to get a job at a well known vegetarian restaurant in Edinburgh, and just to brag a little bit, after slumming it all day (food wise) due to far too long in unemployment, I got to eat a wicked  meal after my first shift.

Wait for it... it's pretty good...

Rice pancake filled with baby potato, cauliflower, chick pea and toasted cashews in a spicy aromatic coconut, courgette and tomato sauce. Served with tomato chutney and a big dose of awesomeness!

This one is usually just a vegetarian option involving a mint yoghurt raita, but most of the meals can be made vegan so there's lots of choice.

Gosh listening to me you would think they're paying me for this blog, but swear to blog, I am just super excited about my overly rad meal last night!!

If you can't get a job at one, NEVER FEAR there's an easy solution...

just make friends with someone who does. Easy.