HOT TIP: when boycotting, try dupe recipes at home to share with friends. Sometimes there isn't a local alternative brand available but there is always someone with a recipe blog on the internet. I can still have doublestuffed mint chocolate sandwich cookies without funding the capitalist machine crushing my American friends ☺️
This recipe I used 1 cup butter substitute (i used a canola spread) 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour ½ cup cocoa powder (i use trade aid or donovans) ½ cup golden syrup 1 teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt 1 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Mix in a food processor then set in the fridge for 25 minutes
Filling: ½ cup vegetable shortening 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup powdered sugar 1/4 cup flour Mint extract to taste
Or just do a small spoonful of peanutbutter as a filling
Roll out the dough to about 5mm thickness. Stamp and cut.
My oven is a joke so not sure the temp but i turn it on and bake for about 8-10 minutes. It will be a low temperature, probably like 170c. They are still soft when i pull them out so I let them sit on the pan to cool before filling and stacking
There is no ethical consumption, but I don't think I can convince my wife to give up Oreos... Hmm.
I'd better not risk it.
These are honestly really really good. Like a fudgier oreo
Hmm. I'll share the recipe 💛
sure, but there's more or less unethical consumption - I think it's good to be aware that as a single consumer your impact is minimal (read: irrelevant), but participating in collective action like a boycott can and does drive change
to that end, engage with those collective actions and don't fret too much about "ethical consumption" - this is just one tool among many (i.e. not eating Oreos isn't about being ethical or a good person, it's about participating in a coordinated boycott and achieving certain political ends)
Yeah I use goods unite us and that spreadsheet that lists anti-dei corpos, I haven't given up, just bemoaning that the arc of time doesn't bend quickly enough towards justice.
Sources for the interested: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1uROwPsnRaFk1YiW-pAaRbdX4XbzC0AmMBD2KxH_X7Og/htmlview
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodsuniteus.goods