It feels like it’s been a long time since I whacked out a recipe, so here you go kids. My vegan jammie ‘date’ dodgers! (I don’t know why but I love the name date dodgers, it has a nice little ring to it, don’t you think?)
I was very kindly gifted D8 sour cherry date butter this week, and straight away my childhood favourite biscuit popped straight into my head. I have attempted to make vegan shortbread biscuits before, so I thought I’d give it a whirl! NOTE: The coconut flour isn’t a must but it’s a really nice added touch.
This recipe makes roughly around 8 cookies with bits leftover that you could re-roll, but remember the cookie with become tougher the more you work with it.
Let’s get started with the shortbread biscuit, you’re going to need;
50g dairy free butter
90g golden caster sugar
70g plain flour
30g coconut flour
Flaxseed egg
Drizzle of Vanilla Essence
Method
- First prepare your flaxseed egg, 1 tablespoon of flaxseed and 3 tablespoons of water. Combine and put in the fridge for 15 minutes.
- In the meantime, combine the sugar and the butter together.
- Mix the dry ingredients together and combine with the sugar and butter.
- Then add the vanilla and flaxseed egg.
- Grab yourself some baking paper, flour it and roll the dough out to a £1 coin thickness and put into the fridge for 15 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 190C.
- Pull the chilled dough out of the fridge, and use a cookie cutter (I used a circle class for my cutter because I couldn’t find mine! Haha)
- Then use a smaller cutter to take the middle out of half of the cookies (I improvised and used a bottle cap)
- Put them back into the fridge for another 10 minutes once cut.
- Once chilled, put them into the oven for 7 minutes. Take them out, sprinkle sugar on top and place them back in for a further 5 minutes.
- Leave too cool.
- Then spread a big teaspoon worth of date syrup on the cookie that doesn’t have a hole in it and then sandwich a full cookie and a cookie with a hole in it together.
- Sit down with a nice cup of tea and enjoy!
I could have eaten the entire batch! The date butter works so well in these, it was definitely a great swap instead of jam. Go check out D8 they have so many different flavours that you can add to anything, flapjacks, cinnamon rolls, flapjacks… you name it!
Have a go at these and let me know how you get on. I’d also love to see some pictures if you do end up making them!
Until next time, you beautiful people x
The Wandering Wilson 