Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies (Dairy-free, Gluten-free)

Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

I’ve been on a massive peanut butter kick the last few days when usually I’m more of a Tahini girl. I go through these phases where I crave a specific food and want to eat it everyday and right now, peanut butter is that food! I’ve been eating it straight out of the jar with a spoon. I never understood how people could do that but now that I’ve tried it…i can’t stop haha!

Anyway, so since I’m on this kick I thought it only made sense to bake some healthy peanut butter cookies…and here’s how they turned out! They’re dairy free and can easily be made gluten-free by using gluten-free oats!

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Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

Makes: 12-14 cookies

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup natural smooth peanut butter
• 1/2 cup oat flour (or make your own by blending plain oats in a blender/food processor)
• 1/3 cup coconut sugar (or you can use white or brown sugar)
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 large egg

Directions:

• Preheat your oven to 180*C (160*C fan assisted)/ 350*F
• In a bowl, mix together the oat flour, coconut sugar, salt and baking soda
• In a separate bowl, mix the peanut butter with the egg until well combined
• Pour the peanut butter and egg mixture into the bowl with the dry ingredient, mix well
• Using an ice cream scoop or a spoon, take equal amounts of the batter and place onto a baking sheet covered in parchment paper
• Press the cookies down using the back of a fork to create the criss-cross pattern that peanut butter cookies are known for
• Bake for 10-12 minutes
• transfer the cookies onto a wire rack and leave them to cool completely

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The cookies will be soft when you take them out of the oven, so do make sure to leave them to cool down completely. I actually like to store these healthy peanut butter cookies in the fridge overnight before eating them. They taste much better and hold better the next day 🙂