This recipe is from Table for Two by Joanne Stepaniak. Joanne has many great vegan cookbooks. I had the pleasure of meeting her many years ago when my husband and I volunteered to run a table at the Toronto Vegetarian Food Fair for Farm Sanctuary. At the time we were selling at the Farm Sanctuary table Vegan Vittles, one of her cookbooks, and she was there and hung out with us for a bit and autographed books. Wonderful lady!
This is a very easy recipe...honestly...5 ingredients. If you don't want the chocolate chips...4 ingredients.
This recipe makes a little over 2 dozen cookies.
ingredients
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
1/2 cup crunchy (or smooth) peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
chocolate chips (vegan - read the label)
1 cup pastry flour (whole wheat if you like)
method
1. preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. coat a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray
3. put the pure maple syrup, peanut butter and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl and blend with an electric mixer. Cream them together this way.
4. stir in the flour to form a stiff dough.
5. add a whack of chocolate chips (I don't know...about 1/2 to 1 cup). mix thoroughly.
6. form the dough into walnut size balls and put them on the baking sheet.
7. I didn't flatten the cookies with a fork...you might want to. whatever.
8. bake the cookies for 8-12 minutes...mine only took 8 minutes...maybe it's my oven. beats me. bake'm 'til the bottoms are lightly browned.
9. once your buzzer goes off, remove them from the oven and let them rest on the baking sheet for a minute. transfer them to a cooling rack. once they are completely cool, if you haven't eaten them all already, store them.
I stick a piece of bread in the the storage box with the cookies. It will keep the cookies fresh. when the bread is rock solid, switch it out for another piece. (I use the ends of the bread 'cause pretty nobody wants to eat them anyway).
