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Healthy Voyager: Vegan Pumpkin Ghost Face Cookies

By on October 21, 2013
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There is a chill in the air, a distant howl in the wind and glowing pumpkins line our porches. It’s time for Halloween! And that means sweet treats and fun foods for festive party goers and trick-or treaters alike. Don’t miss out on all the freaky food fun, try some of my vegan Halloween foods and treats and enjoy the scary season to it’s fullest!

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
2 sticks unsalted vegan butter, softened
2 tablespoons Maple syrup
2 egg replacers
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground all spice
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
Pinch ground cloves
2 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Pinch of salt

For the frosting:
2 (8-ounce) packages vegan cream cheese
1 cup confectioners sugar
1/4 cup soy milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Zest of one lemon

For decor
mini vegan chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

In a mixer, fitted with a paddle, cream the sugar and the butter until light and fluffy. Add the maple syrup and egg replacer. Mix to incorporate. Add the pumpkin and mix to incorporate. Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and cloves. Add the dry ingredients to the batter and mix well. Drop rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 10 minutes, or until lightly golden brown around the edges. Cool on racks. When cool, ice with the cream cheese frosting.

For the Frosting: In a mixer, fitted with a paddle, add the cream cheese. Beat until light and fluffy. Beat in the powdered sugar until smooth. Add milk and vanilla. Beat until smooth. If frosting is too thick, thin with a little more milk. Fold in the lemon zest. When cookies are cool spread with some of the frosting. Make ghost faces with chocolate chips!

P.S. Visit my website for more of my halloween ghoulish recipes!

NewHeadshotThe Healthy Voyager, aka Carolyn Scott-Hamilton, is the creator and host of The Healthy Voyager web series, site, and overall brand. An award winning healthy, special diet and green living and travel expert, holistic nutritionist, plant based vegan chef, best-selling cookbook author, media spokesperson, sought after speaker, consultant and television personality, Carolyn Scott-Hamilton is a respected figure in the world of healthy lifestyle and travel as well as special diet cooking and nutrition. The Healthy Voyager aims to help people live well, one veggie at a time!

 

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