Peanut Butter Cookies (Gluten Free, Dairy Free & Vegan)
Ingredients
275g Peanut ButterMs Cupcake recommends using a creamy peanut butter but I used the Meridian Peanut Butter Crunchy 100% Nuts and it worked great
125g Dairy Free MargarineI used Soya Spread
140g Maple Syrup
85g Caster Sugar
70g Brown Sugar
1 Tablespoon of Vanilla Extract
240g Doves Gluten Free Plain Flour
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 160 degrees celsius.
Thoroughly grease two large baking trays.
Measure out all your ingredients and cream everything together except the flour.
Once the mixture is well creamed, gradually introduce the flour, mixing it until combined. Your mixture should now be a bit more dough like. My dough was fairly soft and slightly oily due to the natural oils in peanut butter. This was perfect for the next stage!
Using a spoon… or your hands like I did! Form around 18 balls and place spaced out on your pre prepared baking trays.
Using a fork make a criss-cross design on each of the dough balls, pressing the down as you do this.
Place the baking sheets of delicious dough in the oven for around 15 minutes; a couple of minutes longer would do them no harm either.
Once you have removed them from the oven, leave for a couple of minutes to cool slightly before very gently easing the cookies off the sheet and onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
Indulge, enjoy and then bake some more!
Notes
These taste amazing lightly warmed with some dairy free / vegan ice cream too :)