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One Bowl Peanut Butter Cookies

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 18 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 C (256 g) creamy peanut butter*
  • 1 C flour: AP, GF, WW, oat
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. stevia or sweetener
  • ¼ tsp. sea salt*
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 TBSP honey
  • ¼ C (~52.5 g) unsweetened applesauce

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 325°F
  • Mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl until it’s fully combined
  • Scoop the dough onto a prepped baking sheet ~1” apart (the cookies don’t spread much so they don’t run into each other as they bake)
  • Score the cookies by pressing down on each cookie with a fork to create a crisscross pattern that resembles the squares on waffles
  • Bake for 8-10 minutes and let cool for 5-10 minutes before removing from the pan

Notes

  • *Peanut butter: PB can be swapped out for other nut butters – I prefer freshly ground, unsalted PB as it’s high quality and free from unnecessary additives
  • *Sea salt: omit or decrease the salt if the peanut butter is salted
  • To make vegan: substitute maple syrup for honey (1:1)
  • Like most recipes, this can easily be halved or doubled. But this recipe in particular can be taken two steps further and quartered or even divided into eighths for a mini batch. So instead of 32 cookies, it can be cut down to make only 4 cookies if you have a taste for something small! The measurements for 4 cookies are:
    • 2 TBSP (32g) peanut butter
    • 2 TBSP flour
    • 1/16 tsp. baking soda
    • ⅛ tsp. sweetener
    • A sprinkle of sea salt (or omit altogether)
    • ¼ tsp. vanilla
    • ¾ tsp. honey
    • ½ TBSP (~7g) unsweetened applesauce
  • To take the cookies up a notch – dip or drizzle with chocolate or roll the balls of cookie dough in sugar, score, bake, and after they’ve cooled for ~5 minutes, lightly press Hershey’s Kisses on top of the cookies like my mom and I always did!
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