4-Ingredient Almond Peanut Butter Cookies
With only 4-ingredients, these cookies are easy to make, nutritious and delicious.
- Prep Time: 5
- Cook Time: 13
- Total Time: 18 minutes
- Yield: about 14 cookies 1x
Ingredients
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- 1 1/3 cups almond flour
- 1/2 peanut butter
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- optional : may add a small pinch of salt to this recipe if your peanut butter doesn’t already contain salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- To a bowl, add the peanut butter, maple syrup, vanilla extract and salt (if using). Tip: To help the maple syrup and peanut butter easily release from the measuring cup, simply spray some oil before adding the ingredients.
- Stir to combine.
- Add almond flour. Stir with a fork or a spoon until the mixture comes together. The dough should stick together when pressed between your fingers and not fall apart.
- Line a baking sheet with unbleached parchment paper. Using a tablespoon measure or a cookie scoop (I used a 1 and 1/2 tablespoon cookie scoop), scoop the cookie dough and place it your hand. Roll the dough to help create a ball.
- Transfer it to the baking sheet. Using the back of a fork, gently push down against the cookie making sure not to go down all the way which will help maintain some thickness in the cookies. Create a cross-hatch pattern on the cookies with the fork.
- Note: There aren’t any leveling agents in these cookies so the thickness of the cookies depends on how they are formed.
- Bake for 12-13 minutes (depending on the size of the cookies) or until they are done and the bottom of the cookie starts to turn a golden color. Note: the cookies will still be soft. Allow to cool to help them firm up
- Allow to sit on the baking sheet for 5-10 minutes.
- Once the cookies have firmed up, transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- keep the cookies in an air-tight glass food storage container in the refrigerator.