So I guess today is National Peanut Butter Day. I didn’t find out about this until about midday.
I need a copy of this food holiday calendar. I am ALWAYS like a day late. Or several. As in I am staring at the caramel popcorn in a container on my counter that I made for National Popcorn day on Sunday. But the “holiday” was Saturday the 19th. So yeah. A day late making it and like a ton days late blogging it. I will get to it. I promise. Its some seriously good caramel popcorn. But enough about that, lets talk about these peanut butter cookies I whipped up today.
I was actually not planning on baking today, I have been in a mood for clam chowder for a while, and since my parents are visiting and I know how much the love chowdah too, I decided to head to Whole Foods to get a couple ingredients I needed. I heard like 5 people say it was National Peanut Butter day. OK FINE. I will celebrate. I grabbed a jar and headed home. Well I had my other ingredients for the chowder too.
I wanted to make something different from the normal peanut butter cookie. So I had an idea to make with just a few ingredients. I have made the “4 ingredient peanut butter cookie” before and they are good, but I wanted something softer, more cake like. A puffy peanut butter cookie. I also had picked up a bag of my favorite coconut flour from Bob’s Redmill, and thought that I was on to something with peanut butter and coconut flour. And I thought maybe honey would be good for the sweetener.
I melted the peanut butter with coconut oil and honey. Mixed in some eggs and vanilla. Added in a small amount of coconut flour and baking soda and a pinch of salt. Scooped, rolled, pressed with a fork. Sprinkled with coconut sugar. Put in oven. Fingers crossed. I hate wasting ingredients when baking an ” experiment”. Especially peanut butter. And eggs. And coconut. And…you get the idea.
10 minutes later. I had puffy peanut butter cookies. BUT. We weren’t done. How did they taste??
- 1 c organic peanut butter (no sugar added, creamy or crunchy)
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- ⅔ c honey
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ c coconut flour
- Pinch salt
- Coconut sugar for sprinkling
- Preheat oven to 350. Prepare cookie sheets with either parchment paper or silicone bake mats/
- Combine the coconut oil and peanut butter and honey in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 30 seconds then stir. Microwave for another 30 seconds and if melted, stir again and let cool to room temperature.
- Combine the coconut flour, baking soda and salt and set aside.
- Mix the peanut butter mixture until creamy, either with a hand mixer or stand mixer. Add the eggs one at a time and mix well. Add the vanilla and mix again. Add in the flour and mix until just combined.
- Using a cookie scoop, scoop out a heaping tablespoon amount and roll into 1½” balls, place on cookie sheet 2” apart and press gently with a fork crosswise for the traditional peanut butter cookie look. Sprinkle a tiny bit of coconut sugar on the tops.
- Bake for 10 min, just until the edges start to brown. Cool completely on a wire cooling rack.
According to my mom these are “soft, not too sweet but sweet enough, not overpowering with peanut butter, but the flavors really worked well together.” And that she wouldn’t chop me or make me turn in my knives. Clearly shes been watching WAY too much Food Network and Bravo. My 4 year old said ” good cookie can I have another?”
So. There you have it. Good peanut butter cookies.
Huh, what an interesting twist!
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They are really good! I as surprised the poofed up as much as they did!
These sound lovely! I LOVE peanut butter cookies. Like, my sister and I used to make the dough for the sole purpose of eating it with no intention of baking them. I’ve never baked with coconut flour, but this has certainly got me curious, especially after our discussion of ‘the good stuff’ vs. ‘the junk.’ Also, I’d love to know where the National XXXX Day calendar is, because I feel like I always find out right on the day of… with the exception of Pi Day (not to be confused with National Pie Day, which was this week too! ughhh). If you find it, hook a girl up!
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I found a calendar but its not all food holidays. Like the 28th is national celebrate bubble wrap day. My kids would love that day – they love popping all the bubble wrap I need for packing up our house. ha ha
“OK FINE. I will celebrate.” – I love it, wish someone would force us into eat nothing but broccoli and loose 5 lbs day.
And the taste tester comments are priceless!
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I was dying laughing at my mom. She said some other funny comments that were very “Chopped” Judge-esque. They are even better the second day!
YESTERDAY WAS NATIONAL PEANUT BUTTER DAY?! lol I’m a PB addict, if you couldn’t tell from my last statement
Your photos are GORG. I’m a total blog photo snob. And that recipe sounds DELISH!
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The cookies look great! I love the idea of adding coconut. All of Bob’s Red Mill products are so amazing. I always have quite a few in the kitchen!
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I love Bob’s redmill. ALways been a big fan of the products. Hope you try the cookies!
The cookies look beautiful and I’m sure they taste wonderful. The problem is I could not find coconut flour anywhere here in Manila. Could I use cake flour instead and just compensate by mixing in some toasted coconut in the dough?
I would think you would be able to. I only used the coconut flour so people who don’t eat grains or are gluten free could try it. It sucks up a ton of moisture so I only used the smaller amount. Let me know if using cake flour works!
These are amazing! I added dark chocolate chips. YUM YUM YUM! Thanks
Yeah!! So glad you liked them. I considered adding chocolate chips so I am happy to hear that they are good with them!
How perfect! I always love peanut butter cookies, but they are always so hard. These look delicious!
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These are so soft and yummy. I made an almond butter version too that I will blog soon as well!
I just whipped up a batch of 24 of these using your recipe and they are soooo good. Perfectly soft and with a sweet PB taste, just how I had hoped. I’m so glad your recipe yields two dozen because these will go very quickly. I have already scarfed down 6. Thank you so much for this recipe. It’s so versatile too, and I’m already considering future tweaks to suit my cravings (ie. adding raisins to the dough or a smear of melted chocolate or a dash of cinnamon on top of the cooked plain version). I will definitely be making these again…and again…lol.
Thanks Beth! I love the idea of changing it up to make them suit whatever craving hits you at the moment. I love cookies in general for that reason that they can be adapted to new recipes over and over! So glad you liked them!
Made these today! They are yummy and spongey thanks to the coconut flour. Great recipe!
So glad you liked them!! I need to make them again soon!
I just made these, for the second night in a row. Absolutely delicious!!! I added chocolate chips and the kids stated they taste like “backwards reeses cups!” Thank you for an amazing recipe! Their moist, yummy, and all natural. Definitely a staple treat in my house from now on.
WOW!! Thank you! This made my day. So glad you like them!
I just made these and they are amazing! Super easy to make! My 2 year old loved them! Thanks for sharing!
Ah! I am so glad you guys like them!! Comments like these make my day! Thank you!
These were really good! I am new to using coconut flour and am amazed at its absorption power. I came across this recipe because we are eating a pre-diabetic diet now to support my husband. Normally, I would eat 6 to 8 of the butter, sugar, and white flour kind of PB cookies. Honestly, 2 of these satisfied me. The high protein = increased satiety point is for real. Excellent recipe. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome!! So glad you like! I call coconut flour “moisture thief” since I have had so many failed recipes due to the coconut flour making it so incredibly dry it was inedible!
Just made these yesterday and they were amazing! I have been looking for cookie recipes with coconut flour and so far they were all flops until yours! Absolutely delicious! My mom, who usually hates any of my healthier recipe attempts, loved these as well! I added a Hershey kiss to a few of them to see if they would come out like the peanut blossom cookies, and it was delicious! Thank you so much!
Awesome!! I love the idea of making them like the peanut blossoms – that is a great idea!! So glad you liked!
These sound amazing!! We are vegan around here…can I replace the eggs with something? Maybe flaxseed and water combo?