Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies (Gluten Free, Healthy, V, Dairy-Free, Refined Sugar-Free)

Published: Dec 4, 2017 · by Demeter | Beaming Baker 37 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies (V, GF): an easy recipe for comforting peanut butter cookies that are lightly crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside, made with healthy, whole ingredients! Vegan, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free.

Peanut Butter is one of my FAVORITE ingredients. Of all time. It’s creamy, nutty, satisfying and kind of guilt-free. Alright, it’s not guilt-free if you eat an entire jar in one sitting.

Which I haven’t done.

Or anything.

Best of all, peanut butter goes with everything. Or, I should say, it goes well IN everything: breakfast bars, cookies, candy, truffles, smoothies, cookies, dessert bars, cookies. And finally, cookies.

Did I say that already? 🙂

It’s just… Cookies + Peanut Butter = All Dessert Goals Achieved in Life. Unless you throw in chocolate. In which case, all bets are off.

Here’s just a small, teeny, tiny list of my favorite Peanut Butter-upgraded baked goods:

And here are some of my favorite Peanut Butter-upgraded unbaked/no-baked goods:

Gluten Free Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles
No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars (the 2nd most popular recipe on my site)
3 Ingredient No Bake Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies (literally the most popular recipe on my site)
No Bake Peanut Butter Cup Oatmeal Bars
Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Energy Bites

Basically, I could go on and on. And I think you kinda like it. 🙂 Come on now, who else is clicking on these PB recipes, surely it’s not just my mom and Erik!

Mom? Erik? Please confirm this guys!

But with all of that peanut butter goodness, there hasn’t been one simple easy vegan peanut butter cookie. Can you believe?

It’s just that… I have this thing about not releasing a basic/staple recipe until it’s AMAZING. If there’s just one glitch in it, there’s a glitch in the whole system! I will literally toss and turn all night knowing that it’s out and it’s not perfect.

So guess what?

These Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies are amazing.

The thing is… even when I, someone who has to eat baked goods all day and all night for testing purposes, need to snugly put that lid on the container of peanut butter cookies, then, ask Erik to quietly and stealthily hide the cookies so I can stop eating them..

That, my friends, is Peanut Butter Perfection.

Now, these aren’t my ultimate classic peanut butter cookies. Let’s just get that nice and cleared up right now. And let’s all hold back on insightful witticisms about my unbearable perfectionism traits… the thing is, classic peanut butter cookies are thick, super chewy, dense, and kinda small.

These Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies are BIG. They spread beautifully and gracefully like those butter-filled, sugar-overdose, guilt-laden cookies from your favorite bakery.

YES.

They’re deliciously large and thin, lightly crispy on the outside, chewy, soft and moist on the inside. The second day, they’re seriously soft (be gentle with them :)) and the sweet peanut butter flavor comes through even more.

And I cannot stop eating them.

And and neither can Erik.

I literally heard him re-open the PB cookies container I had just sealed up and make gobbling noises like he was the Cookie Monster himself—all while on his mission to hide them from me!

The nerve!

Folks, I hope you love these big, delightfully nutty, crispy, chewy, soft, and delicious (let’s not forget) Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies. They’re here, right on time for all your holiday baking needs! You happy? I hope so. 🙂

Just in case you’re not convinced, allow me to tell you all about them! My Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies are:

easy to make, in just one bowl
lightly crispy on the outside and soft, chewy and moist on the inside on Day One
super soft, extra bursting with sweet peanut butter flavor on Day Two
vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free
just the tastiest healthy holiday dessert recipe to bring to all your festive holiday parties!
… along with these: Healthy Gluten Free Cookie Dough Bars, Gluten Free Soft Peanut Butter Cookies
made with the simple, whole, healthy ingredients you love
deliciously protein-rich
wonderfully allergy-friendly
perhaps your new favorite gluten free peanut butter cookie recipe!

Are you super pumped about these Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies? Let’s do it! You grab the oat flour and I’ll grab my 10-gallon jar of peanut butter (totally not the jar I completely ate in one sitting, or anything). I’m beyond thrilled to be spending the holidays with you, baking, no-baking and creating all the guilt-free holiday desserts our loved ones deserve. If you’re looking for some edible holiday gift ideas, you’ve got to try my 5 minute easy peppermint fudge! .

I can’t wait to hear what you think of this recipe! In the meantime, tell me:

Have you started your holiday shopping yet?

Sending you all my love and maybe even a dove, xo Demeter ❤

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