View Larger Gluten-free flour for my friend with celiac disease, Earth Balance for my friend who’s lactose intolerant, bananas instead of eggs for my friends who’re vegan, maple cranberry pecan for my friend who doesn’t like chocolate — it gets so that an average chocolate chip cookie seems like a confrontation. What about a cookie with shards of glass in it or nuts and bolts? Some fruit, I thought, is like that. Eating a cherry or a date, with their hard pits in the middle, you could easily break your teeth; but no one seems to mind. So I took a recipe for sticky date pudding (Aurora clued me in to this), and prepared the dates accordingly. I made a regular coconut cookie dough:
- 1/2 c unsalted butter
- 1/2 c white sugar
- 1 T molasses
- 1 egg
- 1/2 t vanilla
- 1/2 c shredded coconut
- 1 c all-purpose flour
- 1/2 t baking soda
- 1/2 t salt
Added the dates and formed each cookie around a pit (I pitted the dates, then repitted the cookies). They came out delicious and strange; no harder to eat than a date, but more annoying. I put the sign to warn my parents in the morning.
