Vegan Apple Pie

Ingredients:

Filling:

3 Mclntosh Apples

1/4 cup Brown Sugar

1 tablespoon Cornstarch

1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon

1/8 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Crust:

350 gram All Purpose Flour

160 gram Apple Sauce

1/4 cup Vegetable Oil

1/8 teaspoon Salt

1/2 teaspoon Cocoa Powder

Green Food Colorant

Instruction:

Gift Box Cookies

Ingredients:

100 gram Unsalted Butter, cold

100 gram Sugar

1 cup All Purpose Flour

1 tablespoon Cherry Jam

1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder

Instruction:

1. Whisk butter and sugar together.

2. Add jam.

3. Sift in flour.  Mix the mixture into dough.

4. Dived the dough in halves.  Add cocoa poeder in one of the doughs.  Knead it until the colour well blended.

5. Place them into two separate zip bags.  Roll the purple dough into a 5mm sheet, and roll the cocoa dough into a 3mm sheet.  Refrigerate them until firm.

6. Cut the purple dough into 4 long strips.

7. Place one of the strips on top of the brown dough, messure, and cut out 2 brown strips with the same width and length.

8. Place a brown strip between two red strips.  Make 3 sets of these striped blocks.

9. Cut each block into halves .  You should have 6 striped blocks.

10.  Cut 3 brown strips in equal sizes.  Place each into two pieces of striped blocks.  Make 3 set of them.  Refridge them until firm.

11. Cut the strip blocks into equal size of cubes.  Place them on a baking sheet.

12. Cut the remining brown dough into a few thin strips, and then cut them into small traingles for the bows.  Place a tiny dough ball on each bow.

13. Bake for about 15 minutes at 335F/160C.

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Crispy Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:

3.5 cups Old Fashion Oatmeal

3/4 cup All Purpose Flour

1 cup Brown Sugar

170 gram Salted Butter

1/2 cup Raisins

1/2 cup Cranberries

1 cup Mixed nuts (Pecans, Walnuts, pumpkin seeds) 

1 Egg

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1/4 cup Flaxseed Meal

Instruction:

Vanilla Cookie Hearts

Ingredients: make about 50 cookies

2 3/4 cups All Purpose Flour

75 gram Unsalted Butter, soften

90 gram Cream Cheese

270 gram White Sugar

1 Egg

1 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/8 teaspoon Salt

Food colorants (Blue, Red, Green, Yellow) 

Instruction:

1. With a folk, whisk butter and cream cheese together until smooth.  

2. Add sugar, egg, salt, and vanilla extract, whisk until they are well combined. 

3. Sift in flour and baking powder.  Mix and form a soft dough with a spatula.

4. Dive the dough into three small doughs and a large dough.  Tint each small doughs with a different food colorant.  Tint the large dough with yellow.

5. Roll one of the small dough into a ball.  Add the same amount of the yellow dough on top and roll it into a ball again.  This part is very causal, you can mix and match any sort of colours as your desire.

6. Place each coloured dough in individual zip bag.  Roll them into 1mm thick sheets.  Chill them for about an hour.

7. With a heart shape cookie cutter, cut out as many hearts as you may.  Collect the remnant, form it together into a ball, and then roll it into a 1mm sheet again, in order to cut out more heart cookie doughs. Repeat this step until all the doughs are used up. 

8. Place the cookie doughs on a baking sheet.  Bake them at 350F/175C for about 10 minutes.

9. Allow the cookies cool completely before storing them into an air-tight container.