The best chewy chocolate cookies filled with sweet peanut butter and made vegan!
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time10 minutesmins
Total Time25 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: dairy free, vegan
Keyword: chocolate cookies, peanut butter cookie, vegan cookies
Servings: 22cookies
Author: Ciarra Siller
Ingredients
for the peanut butter
1/2cupnatural peanut buttercreamy
1/4 cup granulated sugar
for the cookies
2tbsp ground flax meal
6 tbsp water
1 1/2cup all purpose flouror gluten free all purpose baking flour
1/2 cupunsweetened cocoa powder
1/2cup chocolate chips/chopped chocolate vegan
2tsp baking soda
1/2 cup+ 2 tbspvegan buttersticks at room temp
2/3cup brown sugar
2/3 cup granulated white sugar
2tsp vanilla extract
flaked sea salt optional
Instructions
for the peanut butter
In a mixing bowl, stir together the peanut butter and sugar until smooth. Place a piece of parchment paper on a baking sheet and drop dollops of peanut butter about a half inch in size. Freeze for 1 hour or until solid.
for the cookies
Preheat oven to 350 F and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.In a small bowl, stir together the flax meal and water and set aside for at least five minutes to thicken.
In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, cocoa powder, chocolate chips and baking soda until combined.In another bowl, use a handheld mixer (or you can use a stand alone mixer) to beat the room temperature butter, brown sugar and white sugar until smooth and creamy. Add in the flax egg and vanilla and continue mixing until incorporated. Add your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients and stir until a dough forms.
Use a 1 1/2 inch cookie scooper to make cookie balls and drop them on the baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Remove the peanut butter from the freezer and place a peanut butter dollop on the top of each cookie ball. Bake for 9-11 minutes. Let cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to continue cooling. Top with flaked sea salt before serving.
*Note* For a more aesthetically pleasing cookie, add chopped chocolate or chocolate chips to the tops of the cookies as soon as you remove them from the oven.
Notes
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