I tried to make my gluten free cut out cookies again – but this time I used all coconut flour.
I am thinking that is the reason they were crumbly and would not form. I’ve never used egg replacer for these cookies, so it could’ve been that.
All was not lost, though! I dumped it all back into the bowl and stuck it back in the fridge. I ran to the store for another tub of (non-hydrogenated – YAY!) Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese.
I also bought flowers for Jason:
Gluten Free and Vegan Lime Bars
Crust:
2 1/2 cups coconut flour (Bob’s Red Mill)
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup butter (I use Earth Balance)
2 eggs (Ener-G replacer)
3/4 cup sugar
After giving up making cookies, press into prepared baking pan. Bake @ 375 for 10 minutes. Cool 5 minutes.
Topping:
8 ounces Tofutti vegan cream cheese
1/3 cup coconut milk or almond milk
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup lime juice
Combine and spread over crust. Bake @ 375 for another 20 minutes.
This crust tasted so good! I really want a cut out cookie that tastes like this. I will keep trying…
Now, please, tell me a cooking or baking fail you have had!
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They look good and next time they could be perfect for you and those flowers are so beautiful! Enjoy!
aren’t they pretty? I was thinking on the way to the store… what kind of flower can I get for Jason… and thought, sunflowers are not too “girly” and then I saw THESE… pretty!
At least you had a backup dessert though right?? I’ve had a few disasters – mostly after the fact. Like spilling an entire pitcher of tea on our quesadillas or Maddie licking the side of the cake I made for my sister’s baby shower. Fun stuff like that
yes – always a way to use the fail…
Maddie licking the cake!! TEE HEE !
I have forgotten to add any kind of flour to cookies — when I was scooping the dough onto the pan I kept thinking “these are so runny, I hope they solidify in the oven”. NOPE — they turned into a solid sheet of burnt dough.
oh WOW… that’s a good one !
You are dedicated.
I attempted a cheesecake with nonfat cheese. Epic fail.
aww… yeah, I can imagine that might be um, not good? good try, though.
Just yesterday I had a cookie fail.
I quartered a recipe but forgot to only put 1/4 egg instead of the whole one. They were weird, yellow, and didn’t rise right
They looked good to me !!
haha I’ve had plenty girl! But my most recent was a pancake recipe I tried to veganise and erm, they were gross. My hubby ate them just because he hates waste, but boy oh boy, it’s enough to knock your confidence right?
haa… I’ve done that… really dense, hockey-puck pancakes, right??
I ate them too… I really do not like to waste things…
My ‘fails’ are too many to list. Just ask Eric. LOL Those bars look like a pretty tasty “fail” to me. Yum. Hey…do you ever cook with sugar replacements? I have been using organic xylitol and of course Stevia. I am wondering because I was (I have since fallen off of the sugar-free wagon)going totally sugar free for quite some time and my body was loving it. Alas, I am addicted to sweet things. Fruit just doesn’t cut it when I need something naughty. Just wondering if you have any recipes that are tasty and don’t use flour and sugar? Help a sister out!
I could probably try one, for you, my friend…
I do not have any experience using sugar replacements… I need to educate myself more. I’ll work on this – any specific dessert you’d like me to tackle?
These look delicious! Fail turned win for sure.
One cookie fail I had was making pumpkin cookies. It called for a cup of pumpkin, and I read it as can.
oops!! were you able to adjust the recipe…?
I had a major baking fail a few months ago trying to make black bean brownies!
oh, I LOVE black bean brownies. that was my VERY first blog post !!
Gorgeous flowers!!! they are so bright and cheery
sorry about the cookie fail.. that just means the next batch will be even better!
my cooking fail was adding too much cinnamon to a green monster.. it was TERRIBLE — almost undrinkable
ha… that reminds me of the time I added CHILI powder to oats thinking it was pumpkin pie spice. GAAH !
Only one?? I fail regularly—which I’m OK with because I learn each time. Sometimes what I learn is to work within my skill set, other times I learn about actual baking and how little particularities can mean a world of difference.
YES !! as long as you learn from it… I had MANY fails when first transitioning to gluten free baking… oh so many fails…
I had a GF BF once (ha ha!) and he was tall and thin, so naturally, I turned all my baking GF so he would eat most of it. It really seems like it’s an art, figuring out exactly *which* GF flours are best for what kind of recipe, but now, I prefer GF baking to demon wheat baking—you can play so much more with textures!
ha – I LOVE it – demon wheat – it’s so true. I’ve been gluten free more than a year, and Jason just joined me. For most things I’ve become pretty good at it, but these cookies are a new venture. Back to the drawing board, or my original recipe!
I made shortbread recently not realizing how much they spread while baking. I came out with 24 butter pancakes. Still tasted good.
I bet they did !!
shortbread is one of The Best Flavors…
girl i’ve had so many high altitude baking issues it’s not even funny! kinda makes for some fun stories though
I’ve never experienced different altitudes in baking… but I have heard it messes with ya!!
Recently I had a cookie fail that involved an apron (and that’s all). By the end of the night, though, it turned out okay for me. :p
I think I know what you’re talking about… the cutest post ever!!
This was not a failure! Good grief those look beautiful! I made muffins one time and they are now referred to as “bug muffins”. I swear they tasted like what you would think a bug would taste like…gross! The flowers are beautiful…and my favorite kind!
ha! thanks!! yes, the end result is a success…
bug muffins = hee!!
I love your resourcefulness. I would have dumped it all and taken a break from baking again for awhile. Love how you turned it into a masterpiece dessert!
Thank You !!
I hate to waste… this was going to be MANY cookies!! 
yes – for something I kinda threw together? pretty dang good, and I’d make it again!
This reminds me of key lime pie which is one of my favorite things EVER!
oh, yes – ME TOO !!
Those look so yummy. I’m glad to know I’m not the only person who meets failure in the kitchen sometimes. Tonight I made my husband waffles for supper and he could barely eat them they had so many flour chunks. I’ve made waffles hundreds of times before but tonight was just an embarrassing fail.
hee – yep – it happens to the best of us !
Gosh, I LOVE you. I love that you salvaged what others would have thrown away AND picked up pretty flowers for your man.
I remember baking a cake with my sister when we were younger and 3 or 4 minutes after we put the cake pan in the over, we looked over and saw the eggs on the counter. We actually pulled the cake out of the oven, back into the mixing bowl, added the eggs and back into the oven. The cake was perfect! I think it was a boxed strawberry cake with vanilla icing. Hahaha. 
gotta remember to do nice things for our men every now and then…
and THAT sounds like something I WOULD DO !! take the cake back out and add the eggs – that is awesome! <3
These are definitely not a fail in my book. They look perfect!
thank you !!
oh what gorgeous flowers! I use coconut flour all the time but it dries out pretty fast so now I use 1-2 tbsp of flaxseed meal or oil to keep it moist. That might help.
Those bare look fabulous, as always!!
thanks for the tip!! you know I will be trying again!!
Those bars are so adorable!
I made muffins recently and subbed banana for eggs to make them vegan. More like nast-egan.
yeah… I’ve tried that… things like banana and applesauce are good for butter / oil replacements. eggs really have to be a flax egg or the Ener-G replacer… at least as far as I’ve tried…
So glad I’m not the only one who has fails in the kitchen, especially when it comes to veganizing.
I tried to make muffins using my juice pulp one morning, and they were the most disgusting baked good I’ve ever seen or tasted. I mean, unsalvagable, completely awful.
Situations like that can really hurt a girl’s confidence! Glad you worked yours out!
HAA !! well I AM GLAD that I’m not the only one who has made something with juice pulp !!
I tried to make granola bars with juice pulp – sounds like it’d be GOOD, right?? no. and you can probably imagine – since you’ve been there!!
You are a brave, brave soul…. Gluten free baking? OMG – not that baking by itself requires CHEMISTRY and PRECISION, but toying with the forces of the universe with other ingredients???????????
I bow down to you….
Humbly Yours ~
Kris – the assembler, not the chemist, baker, or cook
yes… gf baking is chemistry, precision AND creativity when it doesn’t come out as originally planned!
well at least the LOOK tasty! i completely decimated the pumpkin seeds i tried to roast a few weeks ago. they looked like char. hideous.
oh they are tasty !! and I tried again with actual cut out cookies and they turned out, so all is good ! I love pumpkin seeds… but they turn on you in a SECOND !!
The finish products look yummy though, even though it started as a fail? Did you I read the post right?
What size baking pan this you use? 8×8?
My recipe fail was with coconut flour too. In the beginning when I first experimented with coconut flour, I thought you could just substitute it from any flour. NOT! I made muffins and they came out flat, crumbly and dense with gritty texture. AND they were white and never browned
Major fail!!!
Even though they were coconut muffins, and I love anything coconut…I had to throw away the whole batch.
My family came home and smelled the great aroma from the baking. They wanted some but had to tell them it wasn’t any good.
I was starting out to make sugar cookie dough – for cut out cookies… using only coconut flour this time made it WAY TOO crumbly… so THIS was the success from the fail !
I used a 9×11 …
great post thanks!!!!
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