Best Vegan Persimmon Banana Cookies With Dark Rum Icing Recipes

PERSIMMON BANANA COOKIES

Steps:

• Dissolve soda in pulp.
• Cream shortening and sugar.
• Add egg and mix well.
• Mix dry ingredients together.
• Chop nuts and raisins finely, combining with sugar mixture.
• Add pulp.
• Drop on well-greased baking sheet.
• Bake 10-12 minutes at 350°.
• Keep in tight container.

VEGAN PERSIMMON-BANANA COOKIES WITH DARK RUM ICING

Steps:

• 1. In a blender, place chopped persimmons and bananas with 1 tsp vanilla extract. Blend until smooth. Add 1 tsp baking soda. Blend in briefly.
• 2. Cream butter and sugar in mixer.
• 3. Blend 1.5 tsp NRG egg replacer with 2 tsp warm water. When smooth, add to creamed butter and sugar. Whip butter, sugar, NRG egg replacer mixture until smooth.
• 4. Add dry ingredients (except nuts) and fruit puree to butter, sugar, NRG egg replacer mixture. Mix. Fold in chopped walnuts by hand.
• 5. Preheat oven to 350F (or 330F for convection ovens). Place foil on cookie tray and butter surface lightly with the end of a stick of butter. Add dollops of cookie batter to tray with enough room between so they don't combine. Bake for 12 minutes Remove to cooling tray.
• 6. Optional: drizzle cookies with an icing made by combing confectioner's sugar with just enough dark rum to create a thick paste. Dribble over surface of cookies.

CHEWY OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES (NO EGGS)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F (175C).
• In large bowl, beat butter or margerine, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy.
• Add flour and salt, mix well.
• Dissolve baking soda in boiling water and add to mixture, mix well.
• Stir in quick oats, raisins and/or chocolate.
• Drop unto ungreased cookie sheet with teaspoon.
• Bake for 10 minutes, until sides become golden. don't overcook.

MOLASSES SPICE COOKIES WITH DARK RUM GLAZE

Steps:

• Adjust an oven rack to the middle position. Heat oven to 375. Spread 1/2 cup sugar in a shallow dish for coating. Set aside. Whisk the flour, baking soda, spices, pepper and salt together in a large bowl. Set aside.
• Beat butter, brown sugar and remaining 1/3 cup sugar together in a large bowl using an elecctric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy, 3-6 inutes. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla until combined, about 30 seconds. Beat in the molasses until incorporated, about 30 seconds, scraping down the side of the bowl and bveater as needed.
• Reduce mixer speed to low. Slowly mix in the flour mixture until combined, about 30 seconds. (Dough will be soft.) Give the dough a final stir with a rubhger spatula to make sure it is combinewd.
• Using wet hands, roll 2 T. dough at a time into balls, then roll in the sugar to coat. Lay on two parchment-lined baking sheets, spaced about 2 inches apart. Bake, one sheet at a tim, until edges set and tops are cracked but centers are still soft and underdone. (Peek thru cracks to check centers.) It's about 10-12 minutes. Rotate the baking sheet halfway thru baking.
• Let cookies cool on sheet for 10 minutes. You can serve them at this point or transfer to a wire rack, cooling completely before putting on the rum glaze.
• To make glaze, just mix the confectioners sugar and rum together until smooth. Drizzle it over the cooled cookies. Let set for 10-15 minutes before serving.
• NOTE: if you want to make these w/o the rum glaze, you could also use a variation that has orange essence in it. Just add 1 t. grated orange zest to the dough when you add the molasses. Process 2/3 cup sugar with 2 t. grated orange zest in a food processor until fragrance, about 10 seconds. Use that for rolling instead of the plain white sugar.

PERSIMMON COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, cream together the sugar and shortening. Add the persimmon pulp and egg. Set aside.
• Sift together the flour, soda, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves.
• Combine dry ingredients with persimmon mixture and blend well.
• Add raisins and nuts.
• Drop by teaspoonfuls on cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for 15 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet and dip in powdered sugar.

MANGO BANANA DAIQUIRIS

Steps:

• Place the mango, banana, lime juice, sugar syrup (see note) and rum in a blender and process until smooth.
• Add 2 cups of ice and process again until smooth and thick.
• Serve ice-cold in highball glasses with mango slices.
• Note: To make sugar syrup, heat 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water in a small saucepan until the sugar dissolves. Chill.

DIANE'S CARROT CAKE AND CREAM CHEESE/ RUM ICING

Steps:

• To make the cake, preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• In a sifter place together the flour, baking soda, salt and spices.
• In a separate bowl, cream butter and sugar.
• Add 2 unbeaten eggs to the creamed butter and sugar and mix.
• Add the orange peel and carrots to the cream mix.
• Now sift the ingredients in the sifter into the cream mix and fold it inches.
• Mix in nuts and raisins if desired.
• If you need to add some liquid to the mixture, use some water or milk, about 1/4 cup.
• Grease a 9" loaf pan and place waxed paper on the bottom and bake for 40 minutes uncovered and another 30 minutes with foil on top.
• Test doneness with toothpick to see if it comes out clean when inserted in the middle of the cake. It may need more time.
• While the cake is baking, make the icing by blending all the icing ingredients in a bowl.
• Ice the cake after it cools on a wire rack.