Today my mother called me, to ask for some advice which kinds of chocolate she could get for my parcel on St. Nicolas Day.
There are no words for me to describe this feeling. She never really appreciated my lifestyle and my vegetarianism and later veganism was an issue ever since.
But today my technophobic mother searched via google for an online shop that offered vegan Christmas sweets and ordered them, so sweet, now I am really speechless.
You understand I just had to dedicate today's sweets post to her.
This recipe was her first attempt to create vegan Christmas cookies a few years ago, well she did not make it up, in fact these are traditionally made around Christmas, but for me she made them with dark chocolate, so they were vegan. Nowadays I usually make them a few times before Christmas, so I have versions with different sorts of chocolate: "milk" chocolate, white chocolate, dark variations - gorgeous.
You may also experiment on them - using rum (add alcohol to unmolten chocolate and heat then, otherwise it will go lumpy), raisins, different spices or dried fruit.
Plus: These are so simple that they only take a few minutes.
what you need:
100g chocolate
100g almond slices
how to:
melt chocolate, add almonds, stir carefully but well until all almonds are covered with chocolate,
use two teaspoons to form small balls, place on parchment paper and allow to cool for at least 1 hour
One short "fun fact":
I love literature and yesterday I came across Mark Twain's essay "the awful German language". What a funny read. I highly recommend that.
Your mother is so sweet!
AntwortenLöschenI understand your feeling. My mother had also been skeptical of my being vegan and been trying to make me eat animal products all the time. Only recently she said she started to understand the idea of veganism and doesn't bug me so much anymore. I'm happy about it:)
And I am happy for you.
AntwortenLöschenFunny how similar reactions are. I am still hoping that someday it will be feel somehow normal for all of us.