Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies (Vegan, Gluten Free)

Confession time: peanut butter and I weren’t always besties. Okay, now before you gasp and guffaw over this confession (wait, you guffawed?), hear me out. We’re all friends here; this is a safe place for exposing our most embarrassing, most vulnerable vulnerabilities and such. Right? ☺ For instance, I tend to me be dramatic… again, only with my pen. Erm, keyboard. No judgments, right?

Anywho, back to PB. Well, for a long time throughout my adventurous youth, I did not like peanut butter. Not one bit. It was so dry, too salty, not salty enough, NOT chocolate, and so many other perceived-to-be negative attributes. But worst of all, I feared and respected it.

Yep, exactly like how Danny Castellano felt about the sea.

Okay, so do you remember that ridiculously torturous Got Milk commercial with the dog? Omigosh, I feel bad just thinking about it! Okay, if you haven’t seen it, this is what happens (more or less according to my patchy memory): Some evil kid holds out a ginormous spoon of peanut butter to a dog. The gorgeous, kind, and completely unawares dog starts licking the spoon. Happy and ignorant of what’s to come, of course. Dun dun dun!!!!!

INGREDIENTS

• Dry Ingredients
• 1 cup gluten free rolled oats
• ¾ cup gluten free oat flour
• ¾ cup unsweetened, shredded coconut
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda
• ¾ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon of salt
• Wet Ingredients
• 1 cup natural, unsalted peanut butter (make sure to use naturally liquidy PB)
• ¼ cup melted coconut oil
• ½ cup coconut sugar*
• ¼ cup pure maple syrup
• 2 flax eggs (2 tablespoons ground flax + 6 tablespoons warm water, whisked together, set for 15 mins)
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• Add-ins
• ¾ cup vegan chocolate chips

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or greased foil. Set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients: oats, oat flour, coconut, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together all the wet ingredients: peanut butter, coconut oil, coconut sugar, maple syrup, flax eggs and vanilla.
4. ...................................

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