Vegan Persimmon-Banana Cookies With Dark Rum Icing
- 2 ripe persimmons
- 2 ripe bananas
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup vegetable butter (margarine)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons nrg egg substitute
- 2 tablespoons warm water
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon clove
- 1/2 teaspoon dried ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 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.
persimmons, bananas, baking soda, vegetable butter, sugar, egg substitute, water, flour, baking soda, cinnamon, clove, ginger, salt, walnuts, vanilla
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/vegan-persimmon-banana-cookies-with-dark-rum-icing-398791 (may not work)