Order for Mother's Day Today

What could be better than rocky road brownies or agave spice cookies for your mom on mother's day? All baked goods ship Tuesday and Wednesday so place your order today. Mom will be ever so excited to get some homemade bakery stuffs instead of a card and a plastic sun visor from the $1 bin at Target.

Venn Diagrams of Great Importance

Cheerwine Cookies New at Panda With Cookie Bakes

Panda With Cookie Bakes introduces new Cheerwine cookies! A soft sugar-y cookie with a buttery frosting and just a hint of Cheerwine flavor. Order today!

Friday Deal of the Day!

Today's special deal is this brown fuzzy panda tote bag. It features the Panda With Cookie logo, offering you a chocolate chip cookie. Available today only for $15!

Lemon Poppy Seed Cookie Recipe

I promised a recipe for the cookies I posted earlier. I found it through the PPK forums, originally posted by Evan from bjorked off.

Lemon Poppy seed Cookies

2 3/4 cups flour
1 heaping-ish tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. ground flax seeds
4 Tbsp. water
3/4 cup vegan margarine
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 medium lemon zested,so the zest of one medium lemon
2 Tbsp.lemon juice
2 tsp.lemon extaract
1/4 cup poppy seeds

- Set oven to 350º F. Sift dry ingredients and mix together.
-whisk flax and water and let sit a minute
-sift dry ingredients together
-cream earth balance/margarine with sugar.add vanilla,lemon extract,lemon juice,flax mixture.then add lemon zest.cream.
-Add in dry ingredients.Keep creaming/mixing.Add poppyseeds.
-Flatten about a tablespoon or 2 of dough on cookie sheet and bake 7-10 minutes. Eat them.

Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies

Cookie Monday~Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip

Nothing beats peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, straight from the PPK.

Ingredients
2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
3 cups quick cooking oats
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
2 cups sugar
6 oz firm silken tofu
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/2 cup canola oil
1/4 cup soymilk
4 teaspoons molasses
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 c chocolate chips

Directions
Preheat oven to 350

In a medium bowl, sift together whole wheat pastry flour, oats, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.

In a seperate large bowl, cream together peanut butter and sugar with a spatula until well combined, 3 - 5 minutes.

In a blender, crumble the tofu in, add applesauce, soymilk and oil. Whiz on high until completely smooth. Add this mixture to the sugar mixture and cream together until well combined. Beat in the molasses and vanilla. Fold in the oats/flour mixture.
Fold in chocolate chips.

Drop by rounded spoonfulls onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10-15 minutes.

Cookie Army

These sparkled ginger cookies and rumnog pecan cookies are marching toward victory. Delicious delicious victory.

Etsy Treasury Friday (Afternoon)

I am currently featured in 2 Treasury Wests.

My mini monster garland can be found in tweet!, put together by karuski. Visit her etsy shop to see her creations with vintage and upcycled inspiration, such as this flower bracelet/necklace.


My poohead valentine can be found in Freaky Friday, curated by For The Love of Vegan. She specializes in vegan sweets, and y'all already know how I feel about sweet, sweet cookies. Especially organic peanut butter oatmeal.

Cookie Friday! Sparkled Ginger Cookies

To continue the ginger theme from earlier this week, today I have the recipe for the sparkled ginger cookies from Vegan with a Vengeance. This is hands down my favorite cookbook and I don't know how many times I've made these cookies. They are excellent for shipping out in holiday packages or to eat by yourself with a cup of tea while hovering over your wonky radiator pretending it is a fireplace at your country estate.
Photo is courtesy of oh, it's amanda and you can click over to her flickr page because her pictures are lovely.

These cookies are all over the internet. You can find many photos on flickr and also the recipe floating about.

4 tablespoons turbinado or demerra sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 cup canola oil
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup soy milk
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

-Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
-Place the turbinado sugar in a small bowl. It will be used to roll the cookies in
later.
-Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and spices.
-In a separate bowl, mix together the oil, molasses, soy milk, sugar, and vanilla. -Pour the dry ingredients into the wet and mix.
-Roll into 1-inch balls, flatten into a 1 1/2-inch diameter disk, press into the
turbinado sugar and place 1 inch apart sugar side up on a cookie sheet.
-Bake 10 to 12 minutes and cool

Panda or Cookie? Gingersnap Candle from Chickscratch

Today's panda or cookie features a gingersnap soy massage candle, available from chickscratch. She is a fellow member of the EtsyVeg Team. She carries a variety of soy massage candles in her shop, as well as brown sugar scrubs. I of course chose this particular one to highlight because what could be better than the scent of gingersnaps in the apartment on a cold (so very cold) winter night?

I'll have a recipe for sparkled ginger cookies later this week. Gingersnap immersion!

Vegan Earl Grey Tea Cookies

I first had these cookies at a Prospect Park potluck and have been meaning to make them ever since. And now, gentle reader, for you I have.
Although not the most photogenic cookie, these are most delicious. You can't go wrong with a cookie that has tea.

Earl Grey Tea Cookies

2 c flour
1/2 c sugar
1/2 c powdered sugar
2 T earl grey tea- from a tea bag is better than loose tea. You want it ground fine.
1/2 t salt
1 t vanilla
1 t orange juice
3/4 c margarine, cut small (I use Earth Balance sticks)
1/2 t lemon zest
1/2 t orange zest

-Mix together the flour, sugar, powdered sugar, tea and salt.
-In a separate bowl cream the vanilla, orange juice, margarine and zests.
-Add the dry ingredients and combine.
-Divide the dough into 2 logs and wrap with wax paper. I do shorter and fatter logs
for a larger cookies.
-Refrigerate for a few hours, preferably overnight.
-Slice and bake for 9-13 minutes at 375.
-Cool before eating.

Panda or Cookie? Vegan Propamanda's Pignoli Cookies

Today's Panda or Cookie features the vegan pignoli cookies from asacco9642, otherwise known as Vegan Propamanda.
These are part of this month's Etsy for Animals charity special. All proceeds from select cookies go to Animal Place, which is the Etsy for Animals Charity of the Month. So in addition to delicious, delicious cookies, you're also helping out an animal sanctuary and education center.
Check out the Vegan Propamanda shop for more cookies, brownies and other vegan delights.

Coconut Lime White Chip Cookies

A delectable vegan cookie, perfect for the spring time or when it is snowing out and you wish it was spring. This is based on a recipe from Vive le Vegan by Dreena Burton, but I've added a few things and removed a couple of things because most of the cookies I make must have chips in some form. Feel free to ask if you have any questions.

1/3 c shredded coconut
1/4 c sugar
1 1/4 c flour, unbleached all purpose
1 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda

1/4 c maple syrup
1/4 c canola oil
2T soymilk
2 T lime juice
zest of 1 lime

1/4 c or more vegan white chips

Mix the wet ingredients, maple syrup through lime juice in a medium bowl.
Mix the dry, coconut through baking soda in a large bowl.
Add the dry to the wet mix, adding in the lime zest. Don't overmix.
Add in some white chips and fold in.
Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.
Eat them. Eat them all.

Panda or Cookie? KnittyKrissy's Ecospun Felt Sugar Cookies

A new feature where I highlight the wares of other etsy sellers who have an item that is either panda or cookie. I realize that every feature is new in a new blog, but I am enjoying sounding innovative.

Today's offering falls into the cookie category.




KnittyKrissy is a fellow EtsyVeg Team member with lots of fun felt and clay creations in her shop. Pictured today are three felt sugar cookies, made from ecospun felt, which comes from recycled plastic. Check out her shop for other felt goodies, including cupcakes and a PB&J sandwich. Sweet sweet cupcakes.

If at any point one of my lovely, dedicated blog followers would like to send cookies, possibly in the oatmeal butterscotch variety, please do not hesitate! One cannot live on cookies alone, but I would like to try.

A note about the EtsyVeg Team for those who are curious. We are an etsy team for vegan and vegetarian etsy sellers. I'll have occasional links to contests and group projects that are happening and you can find my Monday Panda Picks feature on the EtsyVeg Blog, where I highlight some of my favorite items from member shops.

Welcome to Panda With Cookie

Welcome to Panda with Cookie. Please, won't you have a cup of tea and sit?

Panda with cookie began as an etsy shop in 2008 and is now expanding to the blog-o-sphere. The name was chosen because I love both pandas and cookies and combining the two seemed like a good idea. I hope to update regularly with fun things, starring in no particular order:

*cookie recipes
*panda pictures
*updates on my etsy shop
*intermittent updates about Pluto
*haiku, possibly relating to both cookie and panda
and surely many other things too numerous and exciting to miss.

Please feel free to leave comments, share with your friends and let me know how your cookies turn out.