I'm looking for a special-dietary-needs cookie idea...can you help?

[jmowreader]

One of my grand traditions is making a massive amount of cookies for the crew at work around Christmastime. It's fun and they enjoy it.

This year, we hired an exceptionally nice woman to serve as our HR director. EVERYONE likes her, which is something you don't normally hear about HR directors, right? And obviously she should be able to eat some of what I make. Well, there's a problem: she's allergic to fucking EVERYTHING.

On the very long list of things she can't eat are milk, yogurt, eggs, oats, coconut and cinnamon.

So I'm sitting here racking my brain thinking of all the cookie recipes I've got here - I've got many - and can't think of a single cookie that I make or could possibly make that doesn't contain at least two of those. She CAN eat meats, vegetables, rice and potatoes but meat cookies don't sound all that good to me.

I found online a recipe for graham crackers; what might work is making little round ones, putting a dollop of homemade marshmallow on them and dipping them in dark chocolate but without a tempering machine chocolate is such a pain in the ass to work with that I tend to shy away from it.

So...I need a cookie that contains none of the things she can't eat and preferably isn't a major engineering project. Any ideas?

[SheltieLover]

1. Chocolate has milk in it!

I'm thinking some type of no-bake 2 or 3 ingredient cookie, but the ones I can think of have oats in them.

I'll try to do a little poking around online to see what I can find and will report back if I am successful.

Maybe you could make a fruit basket or sculpted fruit basket?

Good luck!

[jmowreader]

5. High quality dark chocolate does not

Milk chocolate...yeah, that definitely is as advertised. And the cheap-ass dark chocolate you see in a lot of stores can contain dairy. But if you get into the $15-$20/pound professional couverture like Callebaut and Valrhona, those are dairy free.

So the next question is, if I went that way would I really want to spend $30 to $40 - because you basically need a full kilo of chocolate to work with it - on just this part of the project?

[SheltieLover]

10. Thx!

That's up to you. I never buy chocolates that are that expensive. LOL

[Quakerfriend]

2. You may find something good in vegan recipes.

For ex, tofu is sometimes used to make cake icing.
Also, use maple syrup.

[TlalocW]

3. Can she eat chick peas?

There are recipes for various kinds of cookies using canned chick peas as the dough. I made chocolate chip cookie ones for family during a holiday and didn't tell them, and they liked them.

If you find a recipe that you like, but it has ine ingredient on it she can't have - like oat flour - Google substitutions for it.

[Marthe48]

7. My daughter made Million Dollar Bars

with chick pea dough. They are tremendous!

[quaint]

4. Tarahumara Pinole Energy Bars

https://oneingredientchef.com/tarahumara-pinole-energy-bars/


1 cup masa harina (cornmeal treated with lime)
1/4 cup chopped dates
2/3 cup water
3 tablespoons brown rice syrup
2 tablespoons chia seeds

[Marthe48]

6. Maybe rum balls with almond flour

and ground walnuts. I made some with honey as the sweetener and binder, and cocoa powder. You can use rum extract if they have to be non-alcoholic.

[Marthe48]

8. You could make potato candy

Peel a white potato, cut it in cubes and cook it in a little water till very tender. Drain the potato pieces and mash them. You don't need to add anything, but let them cool a little. Then add confectioner's sugar until you have a stiff dougn. Roll it out on waxed paper and when cool, cut it in squares. There are recipes online and you can probably add flavor or sprinkles to make it festive. You could probably use cookie cutters to make shapes. I made it in high school for the weekly candy sale to raise money for the senior trip. I was hopeless at making fudge, so some of the other students told me how to make potato candy. Thankfully, the kids in my class took turns to supply candy through the school year.

[quaint]

15. Cheater's Two-Flavor Fudge

I have burned myself several times making traditional fudge. This is easy, fool-proof and tasty. recipe

[Easterncedar]

9. Wonderful shortbreads

Flour, butter and sugar, iced with hot water and confectioners sugar with a tad of almond flavor.

[jmowreader]

12. I'd need to use a dairy-free butter

I have seen vegan spreads in my local supermarkets, but they are made from oatmilk - which negates the purpose of doing this because oats are off limits to her. I COULD check one of the stores where the right-wing hippies buy their groceries - there are two of them in my area, Pilgrim's Foods and Natural Market - but I don't like going into either of those places because I don't support homeopathy and both those stores have extensive selections of magical water.

[Easterncedar]

13. Sorry. I didn't understand "no dairy" from your post.

Never mind!

A friend makes great hermits with some sort of vegan butter, so I know such things are possible, but I wouldn’t make shortbread with it.

[KitFox]

11. KitFox

You can use a chocolate chip cookie recipe you have with these replacements: Replace the egg with a flax egg made by mixing one Tablespoon flaxseed meal with 3 Tablespoons water and let it sit 15 minutes; replace regular chocolate chips with Enjoy Life brand chocolate chips which are dairy free; use shortening instead of butter. If she can’t have gluten, use Bob’s Red Mill gluten free flour. Nice of you to accommodate her restrictions and I’m sure she will appreciate your effort.

[justaprogressive]

14. Egg Free Dairy Free Chocolate Chip Cookies - Moneywise Moms

https://moneywisemoms.com/egg-free-dairy-free-chocolate-chip-cookies/