Recipe: Peanut Butter Cookies

Preparation time - two hours
Cooking time - 10 minutes

This recipe makes about 20 tender cookies.

Ingredients for vegan peanut butter cookies

• ¾ of a cup of unrefined brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons of maple syrup
• ½ a cup of peanut butter
• ¼ a cup of sunflower oil or any other oil without a strong flavour
• ¼ a cup of softened vegan buttery spread - I used 'Pure' sunflower spread
• ⅓ of a cup of apple sauce
• 1¼ cups of flour blend - I used a flour that was made of a blend of four different types of flour
• ¾ of a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
• ½ a teaspoon of baking powder
• ¼ of a teaspoon of salt

How to make vegan peanut butter cookies 

1. Mix the sugar, peanut butter, apple sauce, oil and maple syrup in a large bowl
2. Stir in all the other ingredients
3. Cover this with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for about 2 hours or until firm
4. Heat the oven to 190 Celsius
5. Shape the dough into one inch balls
6. Place them on greaseproof paper
7. Keep them about 3 inches apart as they expand a fair bit
8. Use a fork dipped in sugar to flatten and create a criss-cross pattern on top of each cookie
9. Bake for about ten minutes OR until they become a light golden brown
10. Let them cool for ten minutes before you move them or they will break
11. After ten minutes, move them onto a wire rack to cool
12. Enjoy! :)

Please note that the original recipe is American. Thus the names of various ingredients are slightly different. I've amended these, where necessary, and listed them by the name that they are known by in England. 

Adapted from the pretty bee