Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies
Servings 8
Cost 5
Ingredients
- ½ cup plus 1 tablespoon flour 70 grams – lightly spooned, evenly swept
- ½ teaspoon baking soda 2.5 ml
- ⅛ teaspoon salt .6 ml
- ¼ cup lightly packed brown sugar 48 grams
- 2 tablespoons canola oil 30 ml
- 1 tablespoon light corn/glucose syrup or honey 15 ml -- (honey's not vegan, though)
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract 1.25 ml
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened apple sauce 15 ml
- ¼ cup natural style peanut butter 64 grams
- Sparkly sugar or turbinado sugar for garnish optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F or 165 degrees C.
- In a mixing bowl, stir together flour, baking soda and salt.
- In a second bowl, mix brown sugar, vegetable oil, corn syrup (or honey), vanilla, apple sauce and natural peanut butter. Stir until smooth.
- Add flour mixture to brown sugar mixture and stir until mixed. Form dough into 8 equal pieces and shape pieces into balls. Press down slightly to make neat mounds. Place the 8 mounds about 2 ½ inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet and sprinkle tops with sparkly sugar or use a fork and press a criss-cross pattern on top of each cookie. These don't spread much, so if you don't press the criss-cross, make sure you shape the cookies neatly.
- Bake for 15 minutes. Let cool for 3 minute on sheet, then transfer to wire rack to cool.