Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies – They MELT in your mouth!

These do-it-yourself comfortable and chewy vegan peanut butter cookies are the perfect peanut butter cookie recipe I’ve ever made!

Smooth vegan peanut butter cookies

It’s been over six years since I first shared this peanut butter cookie recipe.

But that is nonetheless one of the vital standard recipes I’ve ever revealed, with readers writing in just about a minimum of as soon as every week to say how a lot they love these cookies.

One reader even emailed to say she’d entered the vegan peanut butter cookies into a neighborhood contest, and this cookie recipe took residence first prize!

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Above, watch the vegan peanut butter cookie recipe video

Discerning eyes may discover that though I roll seven peanut butter cookie dough balls within the video, solely six cookies come out of the oven.

This may increasingly or will not be resulting from the truth that I ate one of many cookie dough balls as a substitute of baking it with the others.

My favourite a part of vegan baking is that, since there aren’t any eggs, I can use it as an excuse to eat as a lot of the uncooked cookie dough as I want.

Generally none of the cookies make it into the oven!

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The perfect vegan cookies

With a scrumptious comfortable and chewy texture, these excellent peanut butter cookies are actually higher than some other peanut butter cookie, vegan or not, that I’ve ever tried.

The primary time I made the recipe, I keep in mind being shocked it might presumably be vegan.

How might there be no eggs or butter?!?!

They tasted means too good!

I’ll always remember how excited I used to be after bringing the peanut butter cookies to a pool social gathering and listening to so many friends rave about them.

I cherished seeing their stunned faces upon listening to the key that the cookies have been vegan. Sure, vegan peanut butter cookies that didn’t style vegan.

(Ten years in the past, veganism was a lot much less mainstream than it’s in the present day.)

Apart from being each dairy free and egg free, the recipe has one other stunning secret: applesauce! It makes these cookies so amazingly melt-in-your-mouth comfortable.

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Vegan peanut butter cookie elements

Collect the next: creamy or crunchy peanut butter, applesauce, pure vanilla extract, sweetener of alternative, salt, flour, and baking soda.

Need to use almond butter, sunflower seed butter, or cashew butter as a substitute? Any of those peanut free choices are completely effective to substitute in an equal quantity.

Flours that work embody spelt flour, oat flour, white all goal flour, complete wheat pastry flour, gluten free sorghum flour or rice flour.

There’s a keto peanut butter cookie recipe included under that requires almond flour. Or use peanut butter as a substitute of the coconut oil in these Coconut Flour Cookies.

For those who wouldn’t have applesauce available, it may be changed with nondairy yogurt, mashed banana, and even canned pumpkin or candy potato.

Being a chocolate lover, I typically stir a handful of mini chocolate chips into the batter. Chopped peanuts are additionally fantastic and provides the cookies a enjoyable crunchy texture.

Wholesome peanut butter cookies

For those who’ve been studying the weblog for some time, chances are you’ll keep in mind the unique model of the recipe, posted all the best way again in 2011.

The cookies turned so standard that I went again a couple of years in the past to see if I might make them even more healthy with out sacrificing any of the delightfully comfortable texture.

I used to be certainly in a position to lower the sugar from the unique model, and they’re nonetheless simply as scrumptious.

All the recipe now requires only a third cup of sugar. This may be common sugar, unrefined coconut sugar or date sugar, or granulated erythritol or xylitol for sugar free vegan peanut butter cookies.

Some readers say that they efficiently substituted pure maple syrup for the sugar by including a couple of further tablespoons of flour. We’ve got not tried this substitution, so be happy to experiment. Make sure you report again should you do!

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Tips on how to make one bowl peanut butter cookies

Measure out the peanut butter. If it isn’t already simply stir-able, gently heat it for a couple of seconds within the microwave or let it sit in a heat room till comfortable and simple to stir.

Mix all dry elements in a medium mixing bowl. Stir effectively to evenly incorporate the baking soda and salt.

Add all remaining elements to the bowl, and blend all the things collectively to kind a yummy eggless peanut butter cookie dough.

Freeze the dough for a couple of minutes, or you may cowl and refrigerate for a couple of hours or in a single day. As soon as it’s agency sufficient to scoop out with a spoon or cookie scoop, roll into cookie dough balls along with your palms.

(You can even freeze cookie dough balls to bake at a later time if you want.)

Preheat the oven to 350 levels Fahrenheit. Place the unbaked dough balls on a baking sheet, leaving room between every cookie.

Bake on the oven heart rack for eight minutes. Let the puffy cookies cool for a minimum of one other ten minutes, throughout which period they’ll agency up significantly and not be too delicate to deal with.

For those who want to flatten the cookies, use a fork or spoon to press down frivolously.

No bake peanut butter cookies

Be at liberty to skip the baking step after rolling the dough into balls.

Benefit from the peanut butter cookie dough balls as-is, or press down with a fork to make that traditional pb cookie crisscross sample.

Retailer leftover no bake cookies within the fridge or freezer for freshness.

Extra Vegan Cookies

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