Cobbler and Cookies

Okay so I figure it's time for another food update.

One of my semi-recent adventures was making a blackberry-peach cobbler using this recipe.
However, rather than 3 cups frozen berries, I used 1 and a half cups fresh-picked blackberries (from bushes around town) and one fresh peach cut up. I think I also cut down on the sugar, maybe even halved it... that's a lot of sugar and it really didn't need it that much with the sweetness of the berries and the peach.

I ended up making extra cobbler dough at the end because the fruit mixture looked too liquidy and I felt like there wouldn't be enough cakey stuff to hold it all together. So I may have almost doubled the original first part of the recipe by the end... 

Here's a really bad picture of the finished product. It was yummy and took me forever to eat in between bouts of fighting off the colds in the air right now.

I also made cookies for the Harry Potter Club bake sale but I ended up forgetting to bring them, so there's still some in my fridge that need to be eaten... Here's the recipe for those. I used pecans instead of walnuts because they're way better than walnuts and less people are allergic to pecans. I also threw out the raisins in favor of dried cranberries.

Mine aren't as pretty as the ones on DVA because I didn't have any plastic bags to use as squirty-things to do the decorating. What I had to do was, after melting the vegan chocolate chips, I stirred my spoon around until a thin tendril of chocolate was hanging off it, then carefully laid that tendril down on the cookie, stirred until I got another little tendril, and so on. Thanks to Danielle for this idea, she was the one who figured it out. 

Here's the chocolate chips I used. I don't know how much they cost normally, since I got them at Deals Only which often cuts prices of specialty items in half or even in thirds. 

One warning about these cookies. They're kind of greasy... when we put them in a paper bag the oil soaked into the sides. No, vegan does not automatically mean low-fat. Just low-saturated-fat (unless there's coconut milk involved). Sure were yummy though.