It's been a long week (and it's only Wednesday) so to help perk myself up I decided it's a baking kind of night. Being that it is Wednesday, though, and I'm certainly not looking to have to head to the grocery store on the way home, I needed super simple ideas. Here are two awesome ones that I'm trying to choose between.
3 Ingredient Shortbread Cookies:
- 1 cup of softened butter
- 1/2 cup of powdered sugar
- 2 cups of all-purpose flour
Line a couple cookie sheets with parchment paper and preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Cream your butter and sugar together, and then add in your flour. Keep mixing until it turns into a soft doughy consistency (it'll fall apart at first, keep mixing). Once you've gotten to dough, roll it out on a floured surface to 1/4 inch thick and cut out circles with a water glass. Place on your cookie sheets and bake for 16-18 minutes, until a light golden brown.
Dairy-Free Chocolate Mousse:
- Coconut cream scraped from the top of 2 (13.5 oz) chilled cans of full fat coconut milk
- 4 tablespoons of cocoa (a little more or less, depending on your taste)
- 3 tablespoons of maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
You need a hand mixer or stand mixer, with a whisk attachment for either. Scooping as much of the coconut cream off the top of your cans as possible without getting the milk. Put it into a mixing bowl. Add all of your other ingredients and beat together, starting at low and gradually getting higher, until it starts to get fluffy and peaks start to form. Divide into individual serving bowls and chill in the fridge until you're ready to enjoy it. It will thicken more as it chills.
Posted on Jul 9 2014 4:58PM
By LIFamilies
