Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies – They MELT in your mouth!

These home made gentle and chewy vegan peanut butter cookies are the very best 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 probably the most fashionable recipes I’ve ever printed, with readers writing in just about no less than as soon as per 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 dwelling first prize!

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Above, watch the vegan peanut butter cookie recipe video

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

This may occasionally or will not be on account of the truth that I ate one of many cookie dough balls as an alternative 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.

Typically none of the cookies make it into the oven!

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One of the best vegan cookies

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

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

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

They tasted approach 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 company rave about them.

I liked seeing their shocked 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 as we speak.)

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

Additionally do this recipe for Applesauce Muffins

Vegan peanut butter cookie substances

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 an alternative? Any of those peanut free choices are completely superb to substitute in an equal quantity.

Flours that work embrace spelt flour, oat flour, white all function flour, entire 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 an alternative of the coconut oil in these Coconut Flour Cookies.

If you happen to should not have applesauce readily 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 great and provides the cookies a enjoyable crunchy texture.

Wholesome peanut butter cookies

If you happen to’ve been studying the weblog for some time, you could bear in mind the unique model of the recipe, posted all the way in which again in 2011.

The cookies grew to become so fashionable 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 gentle texture.

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

The whole 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 additional tablespoons of flour. We now have not tried this substitution, so be happy to experiment. You’ll want to report again if you happen to do!

Nonetheless craving cookies? Make Vegan Sugar Cookies

How you can 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 gentle and simple to stir.

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

Add all remaining substances to the bowl, and blend every thing collectively to type a yummy eggless peanut butter cookie dough.

Freeze the dough for a couple of minutes, or you’ll be able to 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 together with your fingers.

(You may also 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 middle rack for eight minutes. Let the puffy cookies cool for no less than one other ten minutes, throughout which era they may agency up significantly and now not be too delicate to deal with.

If you happen to want to flatten the cookies, use a fork or spoon to press down calmly.

No bake peanut butter cookies

Be happy 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 basic pb cookie crisscross sample.

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

Extra Vegan Cookies

Wholesome Chocolate Chip Cookies

Snowball Cookies

Keto Cookies

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