If you’re craving something sweet,
These vegan cookies are nice to eat.
Easy, cheap and quick to make,
They are my favourite thing to bake.
Get some plain flour (wholemeal is best),
Put in a bowl (don’t spill it on your vest).
Add some sugar (white or brown),
Wear a smile and not a frown.
Baking soda, essence of vanilla,
Don’t add a gorilla or Polyfilla.
A milk of your choosing (oat is mine),
Sunflower oil and the dough is fine.
Now it’s time to add what you desire,
Sultanas, choc chips, bits of a tyre,
Chopped dates, seeds, a banana skin,
If you like these things, then chuck them in.
Mix it all up, squish it together,
Refrigerate two hours and enjoy the weather.
Flatten some spoonfuls on to a tray,
Bake in the oven for a while, then hey!
You’ve now made cookies, be careful (they’re hot),
And try not to let anyone else eat the lot.
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Here’s the actual recipe, which makes about 20:
Mix together 300g plain flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 160g any sugar (can be reduced if you wish), 4 tbsp any milk, 4 tbsp sunflower oil, 1 tsp vanilla extract and some bits such as dried fruit, nuts, etc. Form the dough into a ball, adding a little milk if it’s too dry to stick together. Put in the fridge for at least 2 hours. Flatten spoonfuls of dough on to a tray and bake in the oven at gas mark 4 for 10 to 15 minutes. Leave them on a wire rack to cool.
Tip: don’t mix honeycomb pieces into the dough, as they melt, pooling around the cookies and leaving them with craters.
If you liked this poem-recipe, you may wish to check out my equally eccentric one for carrot soup.
This recipe poem is delightful
I like the advice not to use honeycomb, sounds as if you learned that by experience 🙂
Thanks! Yes, I had no idea that honeycomb would melt in the oven.
Never mind, there are plenty of other sweets to experiment with!
Excellent 😂❤️
Glad you like 😀
I love this poem, and I’m going to try the recipe, they look delicious! 🙂 Although I might not put in bits of tyre. 😉
Thank you 🙂 I can’t remember where the recipe came from, I altered it a little too. The cookies turn out well, you can put anything you want to in them and they are very easy.
I’ve bookmarkedg the page to come back to it for the recipe 🙂 I’d love to try these.
Great fun 😂 and I love the idea of adding honeycomb pieces!
Don’t say I didn’t warn you about the honeycomb 😛
😂
This is great, really made me smile 😁
Thanks! Glad it made you smile 🙂
Amazing! Any attempt at poetry from my part usually end up cringy but I enjoyed this one. Thanks for sharing! 😀
Glad it amused you 🙂 I’m not that good at serious poems but I like creating more light-hearted ones.
AWWWW what a lovely poem! And the tyre part got me LOL! And thank you for sharing the recipe too! 🙂 I know how much you love to bake 🙂
Why thank you 🙂 I think being vegan now, I am more inclined to bake, because you generally don’t find a lot of vegan baked goods in the shops.
Yum! These sound delicious – and thanks for sharing this recipe with us in a clever poem.
P.S. You don’t deliver, do you? 😉
Thanks! I can only send you virtual cookies – here you go: OOOOOO
Haha! That’s great!