valentine in blue

these cute little “egg-free” mini’s were baked by a friend for her little guy who has an egg allergy.  she whipped them up first thing in the morning from an allergy free mix from cherrybrook kitchen. they were actually pretty good! chocolate with little chocolate chips. she brought them over to my house baked and ready to be dressed…we piped on a blue buttercream swirl and dusted with pink sanding sugar and pink and red candy hearts…

dairy free, egg free, nut free

i tried another recipe…i wanted to try to substitute the “margarine” for olive oil.  i thought that I would make it a little easier to test this result if i resorted back to unbleached wheat flour.  the results are interesting; tasty, healthy, but not quite perfect.  i made three different cookies: a sort of thumbprint with dairy free chocolate chips in the center,  an orange flavored chocolate cookie with whole oats and a few flax seeds and an orange chocolate marble oatmeal flax.