4 August, 2018

Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies 4 Ways

Posted in : Not So Naughty on 4th August 2018 by : Ugne

Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies 4 Ways
(These beautiful treats are Vegan, refined sugar free and gluten free too)

If you are a lover of a good cookie this recipe is for you!!
I present you these beautiful absolutely out of this world chewy caramel like peanut butter cookies. I swear, you wouldn’t tell that they are refined sugar free and most of all- vegan.
Fudgy melt in the mouth interior of these cookies is just pure delight to indulge in. But, for added excitement, i have filled my cookies with different fillings to make easy and tasty pimp up for everyone to try something different, and to find your favorite kind 🙂

To sweeten the cookies I am using 3 kinds of natural sweeteners- Meridian date syrup combined with Coconut merchant coconut sugar creates this caramel like flavour and texture inside the cookie when baked. As there is no flour- they are very light and fudgy when baked.

INGREDIENTS
250g very ripe banana (around 2 medium)
200g Meridian smooth peanut butter
Pinch of Himalayan salt
70g Meridian maple syrup
30g Meridian date syrup
50g Coconut Merchant coconut sugar
1tbsp (15g) ground flax seed
120g gluten free oats (or ordinary ones if have no intolerance)
55g ground almonds
1tsp baking powder
0.5tsp baking soda

Filling-
Meridian chocolate and peanut butter (this nut butter contains honey, there fore if you are vegan- opt out from using it)
Coconut Merchant coconut spread
and around 80g vegan sugar free chocolate chips

METHOD

Firstly preheat the oven to 180’C and line baking sheet with parchment paper.

Now, blend your bananas till smooth, now add rest of the ingredients and mix well until combined. Yes, it’s that easy 🙂 Now cover the bowl and leave in the fridge for an hour to set.

If you wish, you can make the cookies as it is, with no fillings or toppings- they will be same nice and tasty and beautifully fudgy. But If you feel adventurous i sincerely recommend in trying to fill them with fillings i showed 🙂

Now, take the bowl from the fridge and separate the dough in 4.
Take chocolate chips and mix in one batch of the dough to create peanut butter choc chip cookies

Using ice cream scoop or a spoon evenly divide the dough on to prepared baking sheet leaving gaps for them to expand and pop in to preheated oven for 17 minutes. When done, leave on the sheet for a minute then transfer on the wire rack to cool down completely.

For second bath, scoop the dough the same, using wet fingers make slight dip in the cookie and fill with cocoa peanut butter

and coconut spread (which will caramelize when baking)

and for the forth batch, just slightly flatten the cookies with wet fingers or slightly press with a fork

let them all cool completely before demolishing .. sorry … transfering in to air tight container for later 😀 yeah right hehe like that will last longer than 1 day lol