The right mixture of candy + salty, these chewy caramel peanut butter blossom cookies are a scrumptious twist on the traditional peanut blossom cookie with a medjool date “caramel” center. Vegan, gluten-free, and straightforward to make!
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Say whats up to the yummiest salty and candy, chewy and crackly, wholesome and healthful cookies it’s worthwhile to make ASAP. These peanut butter cookies are a spin on the peanut butter blossom (a.okay.a. peanut butter kiss) cookie, however with a chewy gooey caramel heart as an alternative of the traditional chocolate. If you’re involved about lacking the chocolate taste, you might actually add a melted drizzle on high. However one chunk into the comfortable cookie mixture of peanut butter + caramel, I’ve a sense you’ll have forgotten about chocolate solely.
Wholesome Peanut Butter Blossom Cookie Elements
This simple peanut butter cookie recipe is gluten-free and vegan, with none dairy or eggs required. It comes collectively rapidly in only one bowl with the next substances:
- Peanut butter. Clearly a key participant. Creamy is finest, and in the event you use a pure choice make certain to stir it up nicely earlier than you scoop it out.
- Coconut sugar. The right sweetener for any caramel-inspired recipe.
- Vanilla extract. For taste and additional sweetness.
- Flax egg. One tablespoon of finely floor flax stirred along with three tablespoons of heat water. I like to recommend making ready this earlier than you do the rest so it has loads of time to gel. If you’re not vegan, a daily egg will work as nicely I did take a look at each methods.
- Almond milk. Or no matter form of milk you could have/love.
- Gluten-free flour. Or all function flour if not gluten-free, you might even strive the with cassava for a grain-free choice however I haven’t examined personally. If you’re extra of an oat flour fan, strive utilizing this cookie dough as an alternative (nonetheless with the caramel heart!)
- Baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. The cinnamon is non-compulsory (however really helpful!), the opposite two are musts.
The Gooey Chewy Candy “Caramel” Middle
At this level you’re in all probability questioning what precisely we’re swapping the chocolate kiss for that creates this peanut butter CARAMEL cookie taste profile. That’s the place my mates at Pure Delights are available in with their scrumptious Mini Medjools, the proper non-traditional blossom cookie heart.
In case you’ve by no means tried Mini Medjools earlier than, their deliciousness extends far past this cookie recipe – little chunk sized rolls of blended Medjool date coated in chopped nuts or coconut or they also have a chocolate model with cacao combined in. The feel and candy pop-ability jogs my memory of cookie dough items, however they’re naturally candy with simply Medjool Dates and no added sugar.
Any of their enjoyable flavors can be scrumptious on this recipe, however I stored it easy with their new Natural Coconut selection (the primary natural taste to be added to the lineup!) for these cookies. I used one half Mini Medjool per cookie, however for optimum “caramel” taste you might even use an entire roll for every (laid down would work finest I believe).
Non-obligatory Ingredient Swaps and Substitutions
I all the time advocate following the recipe as written, and utilizing weight measurements for essentially the most optimum and dependable outcomes. However listed below are a couple of swap you might make:
- Peanut butter → one other nut/seed butter if you’d like a nut-free cookie (almond butter, tahini, or sunbutter can be my high recs).
- As an alternative of coconut sugar, brown sugar would work simply as nicely.
- Flax egg → actual egg if you’re not involved about protecting the cookies vegan.
- You possibly can use common all-purpose flour as an alternative of the gluten-free flour if you’re not gluten-free, or go along with this recipe if you’d like an oat flour choice.
- Be at liberty to omit the cinnamon if you’re not a fan.
- Swap 1/4 cup of the flour for 1/4 cup cocoa powder if you’d like a chocolatey cookie dough (examined and scrumptious!)
Suggestions for Good Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
- Don’t overcrowd your cookies. These cookies want some room to unfold, so I like to recommend 6-8 most per pan with a minimum of a pair inches in-between.
- Work rapidly as soon as they arrive out of the oven. You wish to get the Mini Medjools in there whereas the cookies are nonetheless good and sizzling.
- Use a cookie scoop. At all times the simplest option to get constant sized and formed cookies, and it saves you some rolling time too.
- Coarse uncooked sugar for that crackle. It received’t make or break the recipe, however rolling every cookie dough ball and coarse uncooked turbinado sugar earlier than putting them on the pan creates a crackly candy coating on the cookies that’s simply scrumptious after they cool. And provides them a reasonably little sparkle!
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Caramel Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Prepare dinner Time: 13 minutes
Whole Time: 33 minutes
Yield: 16 cookies 1x
Class: cookies
Methodology: baking
Delicacies: american
Description
The right mixture of candy + salty, these chewy caramel peanut butter blossom cookies are a scrumptious twist on the traditional peanut blossom cookie with a medjool date caramel center. Vegan, gluten-free, and straightforward to make!
- 1 cup (250g) creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup (80g) coconut sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 flax egg (1 tbsp flax meal + 3 tbsp water)*
- 2 tbsp (30g) almond milk
- 1/2 cup (60g) gluten-free flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 cup coarse sugar, for rolling (non-compulsory)
- 8 Pure Delights Natural Coconut Mini Medjools
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Slice every Mini Medjool in half so you could have two shorter cylinders.
- Use a hand mixer to beat collectively the peanut butter, coconut sugar, ready flax egg, vanilla, and almond milk.
- Add the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Combine once more till simply mixed.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Scoop/roll the dough into balls (2 tbsp per cookie), roll in coarse sugar, and flatten barely on the pan. Depart room for them to unfold, I like to recommend 8 per pan max.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes at 350°F.
- Take away them from the oven and instantly press a Mini Medjool half into the middle of every.
- Cool 10 minutes on the pan, then switch to a cooling rack to chill utterly.
Notes
*Can sub one actual egg if not vegan.
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