Here’s my newest cookie, and one of my easiest ever! Just in time to support the holiday season filled with goodies, while helping you stay focused on all of your plant-based goals!
These lovely Four-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies are made simply with natural peanut butter, oat flour, date syrup, and vanilla. That’s it. So pure…so simple!
Here’s a little Peanut Butter Cookie trivia…
Ever wonder how the criss-cross marks on top of peanut butter cookies got started?
Nowadays we so strongly associate that pattern with peanut butter cookies that without it, people might not realize they’re looking at peanut butter cookies at all.
How did this custom begin? The first reference (according to Wikipedia) dates back to the Schenectady Gazette on July 1, 1932. Their peanut butter cookie recipe said to shape the dough into balls and “press each one down with a fork, first one way and then the other, so they look like squares on waffles.”
Soon after, Pillsbury’s Balanced Recipes (1933 edition) included a Peanut Butter Balls recipe that said “press the cookies using fork tines.”
No reason was given for the fork tines instruction back then, but it’s commonly agreed that it was probably because peanut butter cookie dough tends to be quite dense and stiff, so if left unpressed, the cookies might bake up unevenly.
Now back to my new recipe! I think you’ll find you can throw these together just about anytime. No oil, no eggs, no dairy, and no refined sugar. Just a healthy delicious, chewy homemade treat you can enjoy guilt-free. These freeze really well too!
Hope you love these as much as we do! 
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1 cup oat flour Instructions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients well. Form dough into evenly sized cookie balls (around 1 1/4-inch each), and place them on a baking sheet lined with either a non-stick silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Press down on each cookie mound with your hands to flatten evenly. Finish with a light cross-hatch pattern with a fork. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until golden and slightly firm. Allow to cool briefly before serving. Copyright © Vicki Brett-Gach | Ann Arbor Vegan KitchenFOUR-INGREDIENT PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
1/2 cup natural peanut butter
1/2 cup date syrup
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract