Living Rawesome Day #246 Blondies (unreleased) and Ice Cream Cones pg. 134 everyday raw
March 28, 2010
I finished the Blondies. I decided that I would keep them plain. I could’ve added the Caramel, but I ran out of the recipe from the Rocky Road Brownies and really didn’t feel like making it again. They look beautiful without the Caramel. The taste, well, the taste is really amazing. It reminds me of a sugar cookie with coconut flavor. Truly satisfying!
They were easy to take out of the pan. I left them in the pan for 18 hours, they are perfectly moist in the middle, and have a crumbly cookie texture on the outside. They remind me of the sugar cookies I used to buy when I was a kid at the cookie store in the mall, Mrs. Fields. Nobody has tried them yet at my house. I know Jason will love them. He really loved the brownies, and Sebastian did too. They tasted better when they were in the refrigerator overnight. They reminded Jason of Little Debbie snacks, and I am very proud to say that Sebastian didn’t even know what a Little Debbie was.
I was in the mood to make the ice cream cones tonight. The problem was that in my Everyday Raw book, the directions are wrong! I didn’t even know where to begin, so I decided to see how similar the Fortune Cookie recipe from Entertaining in the Raw is, they are suprisingly VERY similar! I decided to make the flax meal and put it in a bowl and mix all the other ingredients in the Vita-mix until smooth, I added the smooth mixture to the bowl of flax. After mixing the wet ingredients with the dry, I let it sit for a few minutes, until the mixture was gelatinous. The Thai Coconuts have been absolutely beautiful! Both coconuts that I bought had thick white meat in them and over 1 1/2 cups water. The one I opened the other day actually had 2 cups of meat and 2 cups water. That is the most I have ever had from 1 Thai Coconut.
I had to puncture the a hole in the meat in order to get the water out! I wish all Thai Coconuts were this perfect!
The scent of these are absolutely so similar to the “real”, if you want to call them that, ice cream cones. The scent reminds me of walking into an ice cream shop in St. Augustine that Jason and I used to go to buy fudge and ice cream. Yes, we used to eat that stuff, but not very often! I was always dieting. Now I just avoid the store like the plague! I prefer to make my own goodies:) As you can see!
I should be able to roll these into cones tomorrow. I still don’t know how I am going to get them to stay in the shape of a cone, but I will figure something out. If they don’t work then I will make ice cream bowls. I am really hoping I can form the ice cream cones, if so I will make a lovely ice cream to go with them! Gosh, this is so much fun!
Ice Cream Cones Ingredients
1 1/4 cup flax meal
3/4 cup pear, chopped
1/2 cup young coconut
2 1/4 t lemon juice
1 1/4 cup water, I used the coconut water
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 t salt
3/4 t vanilla extract
The recipe directions in my book are not the directions for these. I made up the assembly by myself.
I ground up flax seeds in the coffee grinder and placed them in a bowl. Then I put remaining ingredients in the Vita-mix and blended until smooth. I added the wet mixture to the dry and stirred it with a spoon. I let is sit until it became gelatinous (only about 3 minutes). I used a 1/4 cup measuring cup and put the mixture on the Teflex sheets. I spread the circles out into about 1/4 inch thick and probably about 4 1/2 – 5 inches across. These will dehydrate overnight, then I will attempt to form them into cones.
Wish me luck;-)
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