Totally Stolen Peanut Butter Cookies. Healthy and vegan peanut butter cookies with a secret ingredient: applesauce! There are hundreds of reviews on the recipe. The cookies are so deliciously light, soft, chewy, and better than any other peanut butter cookie—vegan or not—that I've ever tried.
Peanut Butter: Use a non-natural peanut butter like Jif creamy or Skippy creamy.
I do not suggest using natural style or oily peanut butter as This cookie dough is adapted from my oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
The addition of peanut butter weighs the dough down, so I add baking powder for lift.
You can have Totally Stolen Peanut Butter Cookies using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Totally Stolen Peanut Butter Cookies
- Prepare 1 of 1\4 Cups Firmly Packed Brown Sugar.
- You need 3 of \4 Cup Smooth Peanut Butter.
- It's 1 of \2 Cup Vegetable Shortening.
- You need 1 of Large Egg.
- It's 3 Tablespoons of Milk.
- Prepare 1 Teaspoon of Vanilla Extract.
- Prepare 1 of 3\4 Cups AP Flour.
- Prepare 3 of \4 Teaspoon Baking Soda.
- It's 1 of \2 Teaspoon Salt.
Peanut butter cookies are one of those desserts we're always in the mood for. They're salty, sweet, and more rich than a chocolate chip cookie ever could be. We're suckers for the classic look from pressing a fork in the dough, but you can totally skip it. When you make a "peanut butter cookie" with only peanut butter, sugar, and an egg, you just can't get the typical texture that you'd expect from a cookie.
Totally Stolen Peanut Butter Cookies step by step
- Mix first 6 ingredients together until smooth..
- Mix the 3 dry ingredients together until well combined..
- Add dry ingredients into the wet until mixture forms a smooth dough. A stand mixer works wonders here..
- Put dough balls on baking sheet. Roughly the size of a golf ball. Using a fork slightly press down making a criss cross pattern..
- Bake at 375" for 8-9 minutes. Don't over bake. They may not look done, but they are. Cookies will be soft and chewy. Enjoy.
And that's why this peanut butter cookie recipe is my absolute favorite: It has tons of peanut butter flavor and richness. I think peanut butter cookies are sometimes too peanut buttery? Or often times they are too crumbly which is never a cookie goal. You totally don't have to…you could even use chocolate chips or white chips, but the addition of peanut butter chips just adds a creamy sweetness. Tender peanut butter cookies, made from scratch in a recipe that comes together quickly, are the base that sets the standard.