These were pretty decent. In hindsight, I would have added some vanilla to the cookie dough. I also would have told myself that making yourself believe that baking soda and baking powder are substitutable does not make it true. And I would have used regular salt as opposed to popcorn salt.

Someday, when I’m done being a college student, I will have big kid ingredients in my apartment.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter (for dairy-free, replace this with margarine)
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs (to make this vegan, replace this with 2 TBSP flaxseed and 6 TBSP water)
• 2 3/4 cups flour (to make this gluten-free, replace this with 2 3/4 cup all-purpose gluten-free flour)
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 3 teaspoons cinnamon

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Mix butter (or margarine), 1 1/2 cups sugar and eggs (or flaxseed and water) thoroughly in a large bowl.
3. Combine flour (or gluten-free flour), cream of tartar, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl.
4. Blend dry ingredients into butter mixture.
5. Chill dough, and chill an ungreased cookie sheet for about 10-15 minutes in the fridge.
6. Meanwhile, mix 3 tablespoons sugar, and 3 teaspoons cinnamon in a small bowl.
7. Scoop 1 inch globs of dough into the sugar/ cinnamon mixture.
8. Coat by gently rolling balls of dough in the sugar mixture.
9. Place on chilled ungreased cookie sheet, and bake 10 minutes.
10. Remove from pan immediately.

There are a lot of vegans in the indie music world.  Not so much in the regular world.  I love baking for people, especially boys in bands, but I never know what the freak to make for them.  When I think of vegan food I picture tofu tofu tofu.  Ew.  No milk, eggs, or butter?  I might as well spend the rest of my life nibbling on cat grass.  JUST KIDDING!  My cousin Michelle pointed me to this recipe from john&kristie.  Yes, it does contain tofu (!!!WOAHWOAHWOAH!!!).  Shocking.  I know.  BUT!  It’s tofu cream cheese.  How can you go wrong with cream cheese?  These cookies are so good.  I’m not a vegan, but I could sit around and eat these all day.  Personally, I’m not a big sugar person, so I’ve actually made them for myself without the icing and they’re just as good.

This recipe has been a huge hit with this band Ludo, whom I am halfway obsessed with.  The first time I ever made the cookies for them, they were so happy they made a video about it.  I make up about 15,000+ of the 16,000+ views.  The dough is perfect for cookie cutters, so of course I got creative with pacmen, pacman ghosts, dinosaurs, and sea creatures.

Here’s the original recipe, a few of my edits, and a couple pictures of my cookies:
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