Vegan Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

These vegan peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are unbelievable! Straightforward to make (no mixer wanted!), they’re tremendous tender and so yummy!

Meet your new favourite cookie! You’d by no means even know they’re dairy- and egg-free. They’re irresistible! (And they’re scrumptious chilly from the fridge, take into account your self warned.)

Prep the Oats

The recipe requires both fast oats or old school oats. Course of the oats in a blender or meals processor till they’re coarsely floor.

You don’t need them to be finely floor like flour, however they need to be aggressively chopped into small items.

Add flour, baking soda and salt to the oats and provides a couple of extra pulses till the dry elements are well-combined.

Straightforward Cookie Dough

The dough for these vegan peanut butter cookies comes collectively rapidly and with out a entire lot of effort.

You don’t even want a mixer. Simply stir every part collectively the old school manner: bowl and spoon (or spatula).

Combine collectively:

• peanut butter, pure or common (learn beneath for a couple of further particulars concerning the peanut butter)
• brown sugar + granulated sugar
• unsweetened applesauce
• neutral-flavored oil, like grapeseed, canola or vegetable
• vanilla extract

If I’m being trustworthy, I don’t normally get enthusiastic about cookie recipes that use applesauce. Like, please don’t attempt to change my tender, decadent cookie into one thing wholesome or cakey or bizarre. I simply need an actual, reside cookie.

Nonetheless, the applesauce works rather well in these cookies, which is partly what made me an excellent fan of this recipe. In the long run, the cookies nonetheless style like a tremendous cookie!

A Word About Peanut Butter

I’ve made these cookies with pure peanut butter (Costco model) and in addition with common peanut butter (Skippy model).

Whereas this recipe is extraordinarily forgiving, the end result of the cookies may change a bit relying on the kind of peanut butter, since totally different manufacturers and sorts of peanut butter can range in sweetness, consistency, salt, and so forth.

I personally don’t make any changes primarily based on the totally different peanut butters I’ve used, however in case you are utilizing unsalted peanut butter, chances are you’ll need to add one other 1/4 teaspoon salt. 

Flattening Cookies: A Tip

These cookies are naturally a bit thicker and puffier than, say, a conventional oatmeal chocolate chip cookie.

Nonetheless, they is likely to be further puffy if utilizing a extremely thick peanut butter.

To mitigate this, you’ll be able to flatten the cookies barely earlier than baking. You additionally could need to do that in case your oven tends to bake scorching (both that, or lower the baking temperature to 325 levels F).

Baking 1-2 check cookies first might help resolve whether or not to flatten or not. 

Vegan Cookies for the Win

These cookies are really unbelievable. My 15-year previous made them just lately for a church exercise to accommodate a dairy-free allergy, they usually have been inhaled. (Simply keep in mind to supply vegan chocolate chips in the event you want them to be 100% dairy-free.)

I’ve additionally been making them and protecting them readily available always, as a result of because it seems, they style unbelievable chilly from the fridge. And likewise, I actually like cookies heavy on the peanut butter and oats, which these are.

I don’t have any plans to turn out to be a full-time vegan meals blogger, however I’ll be trustworthy, these vegan peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are so scrumptious, I used to be tempted to transform for half a second.

They’re so yummy! I hope you’re keen on them!

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Yield: 36 cookies

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Prepare dinner Time: 12 minutes

Whole Time: 37 minutes

• 2 cups (200 g) oats (fast oats or old school rolled oats)
• 1 ¼ cups (178 g) all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (255 g) pure or common peanut butter
• 1 cup (212 g) frivolously packed brown sugar
• ½ cup (106 g) granulated sugar
• ½ cup (108 g) neutral-flavored oil, like grapeseed, canola or vegetable or melted coconut oil
• ½ cup (130 g) unsweetened applesauce
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups (255 g) chocolate chips or peanut butter chips (or a combo – ensure model of chips are dairy-free, if wanted)

• Preheat oven to 350 levels F. Line a pair half sheet pans with parchment paper and put aside.

• Add the oats to a meals processor or blender and course of till coarsely floor (not tremendous advantageous like flour however in small items). Add the flour, baking soda and salt and pulse a couple of occasions to mix all of the dry elements.

• In a big bowl, stir collectively the peanut butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar, oil, applesauce, and vanilla extract.

• Add the dry elements and chocolate chips and blend till no dry streaks stay.

• Scoop dough into 2-3 tablespoon-sized parts and roll into balls. Place a couple of inches aside on ready baking sheets. See be aware about flattening the cookies.

• Bake for 10-12 minutes till edges are set and frivolously golden (however not overly brown). Do not over bake. Let the cookies relaxation for 1-2 minutes on the baking sheet after which take away to a cooling rack to chill utterly.

Peanut Butter: I’ve made these cookies with pure peanut butter (Costco model) and in addition with common peanut butter (Skippy model). The result of the cookies will change a bit relying on the kind of peanut butter, since all manufacturers, notably pure vs common differ in sweetness, consistency, salt, and so forth. I don’t make any changes primarily based on the totally different peanut butters I’ve used, however in case you are utilizing unsalted peanut butter, chances are you’ll need to add one other 1/4 teaspoon salt. 
Flattening Cookies Earlier than Baking: if the peanut butter used is admittedly thick, chances are you’ll need to flatten the cookies barely earlier than baking in order that they don’t bake up too puffy. Baking 1-2 check cookies first might help resolve whether or not to flatten or not. 

Serving: 1 cookie, Energy: 176kcal, Carbohydrates: 22g, Protein: 3g, Fats: 9g, Saturated Fats: 2g, Sodium: 66mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 14g

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Recipe Supply: tailored from this recipe (elevated the batch considerably, adjusted quantities, omitted peanuts, and so forth) – despatched to me by a reader Deborah A. (thanks, Deborah!)