Viva Las Puffs

Or, what happens in vegan marshmallow cookies stays in….err, gets shared with everyone? 😉 Shouldn’t that really be Las Vegas’ slogan in this day and age anyway? I think we’re closer to living in a Big Brother-esque society than we’ve ever been, so keeping anything secret seems virtually impossible. Which is why I totally can’t keep these cookies a secret either! (Sometimes everybody knowing everything can be a good thing I guess? At least where sweet-sweet recipe-sharing is concerned).

After my foray into making vegan marshmallows last week, whose main purpose was actually so that I could incorporate them into these cookies, you’ll never guess what I found at my local (aka in Pickering, not even Toronto, so super, super convenient for me) organic grocery store? Ok, my lead-up there was a complete giveaway (raise your hand if you didn’t guess vegan marshmallows 😉 ). Now although I was extremely happy with the way my marshmallows came out, I’m not going to lie to you, more than likely, from this day forward, my laziness will completely override all else, and the purchase of commercially available vegan marshmallows will now become the new order of the day.

The idea for these cookies was born for me many moons ago when I first attempted to do hi-hat cupcakes. Though they went ok, it just ends up being so much cake/sugar/icing etc., and I started thinking about how I wanted to have something a smite more portable. So prior to my commencement of dabbling in the marshmallow making world (because as Dean Martin would say, it is a marshamallow world 😉 ), I started thinking about doing hi-hat cookies instead. It was later pointed out to me that these are really a lot more like Viva Puff cookies, so I suppose that’s what I should really call them 🙁 . Being the rebel I am though, the name I’m really going to give them is “Top of the Mornin’ to you Hi-Hat Cookies” because that sounds like way more fun to me 🙂 (and there’s nothin’ you can do about it ’cause I get to be the great and powerful Oz, aka mad scientist in the kitchen, aka I can do whatever I want….is it that obvious that I’m drunk on power and sugar at the moment? 😉 )

Because I was more thinking about the final execution of these cookies, for the actual cookie base, I thought I’d stick with a tried and true recipe for Korova cookies (aka peace offering cookies) that I’ve used many times before from one of my favourite vegan blogs. I pretty much follow it to the letter except that I’m lazy and omit the 5oz of chopped chocolate and just use 3/4 cups of chocolate chips instead (’cause I like to mix it up like…or mix it in like that 😉 ). Basically what I’m saying though is that you could really use any cookie recipe you like for this, since it’s really more about the jam, marshmallow and chocolate dipped topping anyway.

So ♫Dip-a-dee do da, Dip-a-dee eh, my oh my, what a cookie filled day ♫ (sad Amber, that was just so sad)