Vegan Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

Carol's Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies, Naturally Sweetened Too!!

Ingredients:

½ cup plus 2 tablespoons all natural peanut butter

½ cup pure maple syrup

2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoon coconut oil

¾ teaspoon pure vanilla extract

2/3 cup white whole wheat flour

1/3 cup almond meal (if you can’t find almond meal to purchase you can grind almonds in a food processor until finely ground).

1 pinch sea salt

½ teaspoon baking soda

With a mixer cream:

peanut butter

maple syrup

coconut oil

vanilla extract

In a separate bowl combine:

flour

almond meal

salt

baking soda

Add the dry ingredients to the wet, in 3 batches. Using a spatula give a few stirs between each batch. Stop stirring as soon as flour mixture has been completely incorporated. Do not over mix.
Spoon tablespoon size drops onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
Using a wet fork, making an indentation in the top of each cookie. Continue to wet your fork to keep it from sticking to the cookie!
Bake at 350 for 8-9 minutes on a parchment lined baking sheet. Cookies may not look done, but once you remove them from the sheets you will see that the bottoms are slightly golden in color. Do not over bake these!
Makes 38 moist and chewy cookies.

By Carol Anne Wasserman