Date Sweetened Peanut Butter Cookies

Name: Date Sweetened Peanut Butter Cookies
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 8 cookies
Cuisine: vegan
Ingredients: 2/3 cup soft dates, pitted (120g // I like to use Khadrawy dates); 3 tbsp non-dairy milk (45g); 1/3 cup peanut butter (65g); ½ tsp salt, optional; 1 tsp vanilla, optional; 2/3 cup gluten free rolled oats, blended into flour (80g // or 1/2 cup + 2 tbsp oat flour); 1 tsp baking powder; melted dark chocolate (for garnish), optional; flaky sea salt (for garnish), optional

January 15, 2020 By Lisa Kitahara 46 Comments

naturally sweetened peanut butter cookies with a drizzle of chocolate and flaky salt

These Vegan Date Sweetened Peanut Butter Cookies are insanely easy to make, perfectly chewy and tender on the inside. Made with just 5 wholesome ingredients, this recipe is naturally gluten free, oil free and refined sugar free!

flourless peanut butter cookies with chocolate drizzle and flaky salt on parchment paper

Friends, they’re HERE!

I dug up an old old recipe that was stored on my hard drive from my university days and just had to share.

If you have been looking for a Peanut Butter Cookie that is:

healthy
date sweetened
vegan (dairy free, eggless)
gluten free and flourless
oil free
refined sugar free
fuss free
perfectly soft and chewy
peanut buttery
and insanely easyyy….

Your search is finally over.

These healthy date cookies check off cookie woes you might have had. If you’re allergic to peanut butter or nuts, fear not because there is an alternative… keep on reading.

date sweetened peanut butter cookie ingredients

What You Need

These vegan peanut butter cookies only require 5 simple ingredients:

Dates: SOFT!! dates here ya’ll- I always use Khadrawy dates.
Non-dairy milk
Peanut Butter: or any nut/seed butter of your choice.
Oats: blended into a flour or you can use oat flour if you have it on hand.
Baking Powder

I bet you grinned looking at these ingredients cause you know you already have them stocked in your pantry 😉

how to make date sweetened vegan peanut butter cookies

How to Make Date Sweetened Peanut Butter Cookies

Add the peanut butter, dates, dairy free milk and blend until it becomes something like date paste.
Add in the oat flour and baking powder and blend until a dough forms.
Form them into balls and flatten them with a back of a fork. Bake for 20 minutes.

Yes, it’s really that easy!

And you could totally add in some chocolate to make them chocolate chip cookies. I haven’t tried using the oats as is, but I’m thinking they could successfully turn out as date sweetened oatmeal cookies! If you try this out, let me know!

peanut butter cookies made from dates on parchment paper

I’ve tried to capture the texture of these cookies: soft, tender and chewy. I hope I’ve succeeded!

I hope I’ve also convinced you just how easy it is to make these (highly) addicting peanut butter cookies.

Go, go make these now! You will not regret it.

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