Amberleigh's Mexican Chocolate Snickerdoodles

from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar by Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero

Ingredients
for the topping1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
for the cookies1/2 cup canola oil
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup real maple syrup
3 Tbsp nondairy milk (I used coconut)
2 tsp vanilla
1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour (I used gf flour)
1/2 cup cocoa powder (not Dutch process)
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cayenne

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees Farenheit, and line your baking sheets with parchment paper.

Step 2: Mix the topping ingredients together in a shallow bowl, and set aside.

Step 3: In mixing bowl, vigorously mix together the oil, sugar, syrup, and milk with a fork. Mix in the extracts. Sift in the remaining ingredients, stirring as you add them. Once all the ingredients are added, mix until you have a pliable dough.

Step 4: Roll the dough into walnut sized balls. Place a ball into topping, and press into sugar to flatten into 2-in disc. Transfer to baking sheets (sugar side up, 2 in apart), and bake 10-12 minutes.

Step 5: Enjoy with a glass of milk! Be warned – these cayenne spiced cookies have a bit of a kick!

Amberleigh's Mini Cannoli Cups

Mini Cannoli Cups

Ingredients:
Crust-
2 Pillsbury refrigerated pie crusts (I used a pre-made Gluten Free crust)
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Flour for dusting surface
Filling-
1 15oz. container of whole milk ricotta cheese
1/2 cup confectioners sugar
2 tablespoons white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:
Preheat oven to 425.
Prepare filling by combining all ingredients except chocolate chips in a bowl with an electric mixer.
Place in a one-gallon freezer bag and refrigerate.
Roll out pie crusts and sprinkle each all over one side with sugar and cinnamon.
Roll over dough with rolling pin gently to push cinnamon and sugar into the pie crust.
Using a biscuit cutter, cut out circles in the dough.
Lightly press the circles into ungreased mini cupcake pans to form a pastry cup.
Gently prick the bottoms on the cups with a fork so that they don’t rise too much in the oven!
Bake for 8-10 minutes.
Remove from oven and once cool, fill with cream.
Cut off a small part of the corner of the plastic bag to fill cups.
Sprinkle chocolate chips on top and dust with powdered sugar!

Filling can be kept in the fridge up to 3 days before filling. Fill about 1 hour before serving.

Such a quick and easy dessert!