Vegan Chocolate Brownie Cookies

I needed cookies to bring to a friend's place
on as fasting day!
I had wanted to make these cookies last year,
for St. Nicholas Day
but ran out of time/energy/health
if I remember right.
I was excited to finally make these cookies!

So little of baking powder, baking soda and salt;
lots of cocoa though!
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Here is the recipe:

It's from the Orthodox cookbook
from Ipswich MA called
Food for Paradise
that I was given as a wedding gift last year.
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I did not have vegan margarine so I used
vegetable shortening, much to the dismay
I'm sure of some foodie types.
So I used 1/2 cup of Crisco with 1 TBSP water
and added when all was mixed as per the recipe,
I added two 1/8th cups of water.

 

I was also making bread that day
and did not want to waste the little dough that was left
so I put it on the cookie sheet.
Sure makes a visible contrast, hey!?
It was good too, btw, that little bread muffin.
The cookie I had was still warm from the oven
with a glass of milk,
since it was not a fast day when I made it.
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Very good,
so good that somehow the hymn
"Great Is Thy Faithfulness"
came welling inside of me;
which I think was not I hope a sacrilegious thing,
since we are talking about a cookie here,
not something of a great depth.
I rather hope it is more a song of praise because I
am well enough now to bake them.
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Though it is also true that we must
do all for Jesus Christ,
including the baking of cookies.