Peanut Butter Cookies (Vegan)
Author Notes: These healthy peanut butter cookies are soft, chewy, and packed with peanut butter flavor
~ Adapted from 101cookbooks —VeggiesByCandlelight
Makes 24 cookies
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 cup natural peanut butter (I used chunky)
- 1 cup maple syrup
- 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla paste (or vanilla extract)
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
- In a medium mixing bowl combine the flour, baking soda, and salt.
- In a separate larger bowl combine the peanut butter, maple syrup, olive oil, and vanilla.
- Pour the flour mixture over the peanut butter mixture and stir until barely combined (still a bit dusty looking)
- Let sit for five minutes, give one more quick stir (just a stroke or two)
- Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Press down on each one gently with the back of a fork.
- (** Note: This is a loose batter, so if you’re set on doing criss-crosses, go ahead and chill the batter for an hour or so before this step)
- Bake for 10-11 minutes ... keeping an eye on them so they don’t over bake .. or they'll be dry.
- Let cool five minutes and transfer to a cooling rack.
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over 3 years ago VeggiesByCandlelight
Oh my goodness .. homemade walnut butter (!?) I bet they were incredible :)
over 3 years ago weshook
They were awesome...I had just gone to Costco and had a huge bag of walnuts, and then I decided to play with my food. I toasted up about 3 cups of walnuts and threw them in my food processor for a few minutes. Flavored it with a pinch of salt and a couple teaspoons of maple syrup. I only with that it made a bit more than it did; I had just enough for the cookies and one walnut butter sandwich.
over 3 years ago weshook
I made these with homemade walnut butter...delicious! and an egg-free cookie, yay!
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