Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

These 4-ingredient Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies are rich, sweet, and slightly chewy, while naturally gluten free, low carb optional, and packed with plant based protein but no eggs, oil, or butter!

Ingredients

1 cup peanut butter I used organic, smooth and unsalted

1/4 cup maple syrup or honey

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1/2 cup almond flour

Coarse salt for sprinkling, optional

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line large baking sheet with unbleached parchment paper or silicone baking mat (15 cookies should fit as they do not spread). Set aside.

In a large bowl, add peanut butter, maple syrup and vanilla extract. Stir with spatula until well combined and smooth. Add almond flour and mix until smooth dough forms.

Using small cookie dough scoop, drop cookie dough onto baking sheet leaving 1.5 inches in between (cookies do not spread but we will flatten them). Or use a tablespoon, scoop about 1 1/2 tbsp of dough and roll into balls. Using a fork, press on cookie dough balls making a criss cross pattern.

Bake for 10 minutes on a middle rack. Remove cookies from the oven before any visible browning occurs and cookies are still soft. Let them cool off for about 30 minutes and they will harden. Sprinkle with salt if you wish and enjoy!