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| Cranberry Coconut Crinkle Cookies |
Food Diary (April 04, 2012)
Breakfast: Rolled oats with coconut, banana, sunflower seeds and flax seeds
Lunch: Polenta and beans
Dinner: Pajeon
These Cranberry Coconut Crinkle Cookies are crunchy (crinkly) on the outside, and chewy, soft and moist inside. You don’t see the crinkles so well unlike in chocolate crinkle cookies.
Cranberries and coconut went well together. I was wondering about this since it is not a common combination.
If you don’t like the texture of dried fruits, you probably won’t like these cookies. Baking enhanced the sticky effect, making the cranberries sticker. The recipe is available here.
Today's Favourite Photo
Hot Cross Sticky Buns
Today’s Favourite Blog
Here is a list of 6 disgusting things you may be eating without knowing. Read at your own risk!
Mushrooms
Fresh is always better than canned. The plastic lining of those cans contain BPA, a chemical linked to heart attacks, obesity and cancers. Canned mushrooms have an extra surprise. The FDA allows 19 maggots and 74 mites in every 3.5 ounce can of mushrooms. Something to think about if you are a vegetarian.
Jelly Beans
Jelly Beans contain artificial food dyes, most of which are derived from petroleum materials. Orange and purple dyes have even been shown to slow down brain function, and cause behavioral problems in kids.
Chewing Gum
Gum contains lanolin, found in skincare products. It softens up your hands, and your chewing gum.
Lanolin is the oily secretion found in sheep wool. Every time you chew, you’re chewing sheep sweat. Those sheep may also be exposed to pesticides.
Vanilla Ice Cream
Vanilla ice cream may contain castoreum. Castoreum comes from the anal secretions and urine from a beaver.
Bread
Bread may contain a softening agent known as L-Cysteine. L-Cysteine is made from human hair. The other source for L-cysteine is duck feathers. If you bake your own bread, don't add your hair. I don't think it works this way.
Shredded Cheese
Shredded cheese contains cellulose. Cellulose contains sawdust! It’s listed as “fibrous plant material.”
I don't think the cranberry cookies look "disgusting"... the cranberry bits look like little jewels on the cookies :D
ReplyDeleteThank you. I was referring to the later article re disgusting things
DeleteThe cookies look delicious! Scary things they put in our food :(
ReplyDeleteThank you
DeleteHey! You have a hot cross cookie there! Perfect for Easter :)
ReplyDeleteFibre is good for you :P but in this case it doesn't sound too appetising. The vanilla is artificial vanillin, I guess, that's why I make my own extract from vanilla beans. Yeek.
Fibre and cheese go really well together:)
DeleteCastoreum is artificial flavouring as you say. The last ice cream I bought ages ago was made with vanilla beans, it wasn't beaver flavoured. Castoreum is labelled natural flavouring, it is natural!
Three Cookies, there is a typo in your title (you can delete this comment if you want :) )
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, I fixed it now. It took me ages to figure it out.
DeleteBoo. The vanilla ice cream makes me sad.
ReplyDeleteIt makes the beaver happy though. Beavers trash is mans treasure:)
DeleteWE really gotta keep a lookout for all these odd additives before buying anything!
ReplyDeleteThey don't seem harmful, just little disgusting:)
DeleteThe cookies look fantastic! And you gave us one more idea of cranberry pairing (or coconut pairing).
ReplyDeleteFrankly, this list doesn't scare me because I don't buy most of the products here (occasionally soft toast bread and lanolin in gum doesn't scare me). Thank you for making us wiser once more :-)
Me neither, except I sometimes buy shredded cheese. I didn't see anything funny mentioned on the list of ingredients.
DeleteThese cookies look so cute! It's impossible to know what's really in the food but once we know it, it's hard to forget it! ;-)
ReplyDeleteThank you. I guess some of the things are hard to forget, such as those contributed by the beaver:)
DeleteThe good thing is, I don't eat any of those foods. What a relief. My kids eat jelly beans and vanilla ice cream and chewing gum but I will put a stop to it. xx
ReplyDeleteI think once they hear what goes it in they will voluntarily stop!
Deleteuh oh! jelly beans are on the list... not good... not good...
ReplyDeleteIf its a concern maybe consider undyed jelly beans, or home made jelly beans. Less colorful to look at though:)
DeleteThanks for the Cranberry Coconut Crinkle Cookies recipe link. I love it!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome, glad you liked it
DeleteYour cookies look so yummy. And, BTW, I don't think I'll ever buy canned mushrooms again :/
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