Vegan Cookies
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Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies
A friend is going vegan for health reasons, and I wanted to bring some baked goods to their place, so thought I’d try this out.
Most commercial peanut butter chips use milk products, so I decided to make my own too.
I started with this recipe, and then modified it a bit.
These turned out more like a museli bar or granola bar than what I think of as “biscuits” (Australian version). I want to revisit this recipe and try to get more “snap” into them. The peanut butter bits are yummy.
Ingredients
Vegan Peanut Butter Bits
- 4 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1/2 cup of peanut butter (smooth probably best here)
- 1 tablespoon of golden syrup
Vegan Cookies
- 1 cup of peanuts
- 1 cup cut up dates
- 1/2 cup mashed banana
- 2 tablespoons peanut butter
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1/4 cup peanut butter chips (see recipe)
- 1/4 cup dairy-free semisweet chocolate chips
- Sprinkling of salt
Method
Vegan Peanut Butter Bits
- Prepare a sheet of parchment / waxed paper on a board with shallow sides.
- Melt the coconut butter in the microwave until runny.
- Mix in peanut butter and golden syrup until smooth.
- Smooth the mixture over the parchment until it is even.
- Freeze the sheet until it is solid.
- Score and cut into good-sized pieces.
- Store in freezer, if not used immediately.
Vegan Cookies
- Place peanuts in food processor and process until sandy / very small pieces.
- Place dates into a food processor and process until it’s in small pieces.
- Add mashed banana and peanut butter. Blend again.
- Add almond flour and rolled oats and process until a dough forms.
- If dough is still wet, add a bit more almond flour and/or rolled oats.
- Move dough to a mixing bowl and add peanut butter chips and chocolate chips.
- Preheat oven for 10 minutes or to to 175 C.
- While oven is heating, put the dough in the refrigerator and prepare parchment paper on baking trays for cookies.
- Once oven is at temperature, scoop out 1 tablespoon sized blobs of dough onto parchment paper. This made about 30 cookies for me. YMMV
- Bake cookies for about 18 minutes. I needed two trays for the cookies, so I swapped the shelves the trays were on in the oven at 9 minutes.
- Sprinkle a little salt on them.
- Transfer to cooling rack and let cool for a bit.