March 13, 2010

Pretty Little Peanut Butter Cookies


This peanut butter cookie is great because it's gluten-free, and free of refined white sugar as well (though they're not "sugar free" per se, just sans the yucky, over-processed stuff). Now, if you don't have any sucanat on hand, and you aren't worried about using processed sugar, you can substitute half a cup of white sugar and half a cup of brown sugar for the one cup of sucanat I put in the recipe. You could also try substituting 3/4 cup of agave or maple syrup, but I haven't tried it yet, so you're on your own with that one.

If you've never tried sucanat before, here's a bit of info I found on Wikipedia:
"Sucanat (a contraction of "Sugar Cane Natural") is non-refined cane sugar. Unlike refined and processed white sugar, Sucanat retains its molasses content; it is essentially pure dried sugar cane juice... Of all major sugars derived from sugar cane, Sucanat ranks the highest in nutritional value."

1 cup sucanat (or sub white and light brown sugar)
1/2 cup creamy natural peanut butter
1/4 cup Earth Balance vegan butter, softened
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 tablespoons soy or nut milk (I used almond milk)
1 1/2 cup rice flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  • Throw everything into a large bowl and mix it with a beater until well-blended.
  • Use a medium cookie scoop to scoop out the dough, leveling the dough on the side of the bowl as you scoop. This ensures that every cookie is the same size. You want them to be "pretty" after all!
  • Place dough balls 2 inches apart on an un-greased cookie sheet.
  • Bake 10 minutes or until light golden brown.
  • Allow to cool for 1 or 2 minutes on baking sheet before transferring to a wire cooling rack.
  • Gobble 'em up!

5 comments:

MaryMoh said...

These peanut butter cookies look very crunchy, healthy and delicious. I love that you use rice flour and soya/nut milk. Thanks for sharing. For your info, you can adjust settings to your comment box to allow for 'Name/URL'. Have a nice weekend. MaryMoh at http://www.keeplearningkeepsmiling.com

Averie @ Averie Cooks said...

GF and Vegan...hell yeah!!! love these girl! And they look perfect, just the way i like cookies!

thx for all your entries and re the stevia, flavored stevia is good, i really prefer nunaturals the best b/c it's the least funky, but there are other flavored stevias by other co's that are fine, too. just letting you know to save your receipt in case they arent your "thing" :)

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These cookies look terrific. I have a lot of reading to do, because I am loving this blog of yours! It's right up my alley. I saw the granola squares and now I have to make those, too!

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Kelly said...

I love anything with the word "peanut" in it! If it's a cookie, even better--these look scrumptious!