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Today I’m baking 4 batches of cookies: one batch of lemon cookies and three batches of princess cookies with variations to see which tastes the best. I want to try adding coconut flakes to the lemon coconut cookies and I’m going to vary the type of fat in the princess cookies: vegetable shortening, vegan butter, and coconut oil.
| Lemon cookies | Princess cookies #1 | Princess cookies #2 | Princess cookies #3 |
| ½ cup coconut oil ½ cup sugar 2 tsp lemon zest 4 Tbsp lemon juice 2 Tbsp coconut flakes 2 cups flour ½ cup cornstarch ¼ tsp salt 2 Tbsp oat milk | ½ cup veggie shortening ½ cup sugar 2 tsp princess emulsion 1½ cups flour ½ cup cornstarch ¼ tsp salt ¼ cup oat milk | ½ cup plant butter ½ cup sugar 2 tsp princess emulsion 1½ cups flour ½ cup cornstarch ¼ tsp salt ¼ cup oat milk | ½ cup coconut oil ½ cup sugar 2 tsp princess emulsion 1½ cups flour ½ cup cornstarch ¼ tsp salt ¼ cup oat milk |
After tasting all the variations, it seems that baking the princess cookies until they are brown enough is a major factor in the enjoyability of the cookies and the choice of fat is secondary to this. The vegan butter worked well for these cookies.
The dessicated coconut was not flaky enough. I should have used actual coconut flakes.
Grandma never used a recipe, but this is the version we originally settled on. Here is the later version that has vegan substitutions.
We’ve got a bottle of Princess Cake and Cookie Bakery Emulsion in the cupboard. It’s like vanilla extract but it is princess flavoured. I added some to a batch of vegan coconut shortbread cookies and they are amazing!
I baked a batch of Celine’s lemon shortbread cookies using coconut oil instead of butter and they turned out great!
These delicious vegan lemon coconut shortbread cookies taste both light from the lemons and rich from the coconut oil. You will wish you made a double batch!
The coconut really rounds out the bright lemon taste and is a nice combination. Use more lemon next time though. Celine also says to add some salt.
The other day Celine asked me to bake her favourite white bread dinner rolls but we didn’t have any brown sugar so I used molasses instead and also I decided put in two cups of buckwheat flour when Celine pulled it out of the cupboard …
This is a food blog. With recipes and photos. The name comes from Potspoon Lake, where we used to go. I hope you enjoy it.
