Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies (4 Ingredients) (2024)

These Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies have a delicious crunchy texture and melt-in-your-mouth peanut butter flavors.

Bonus, these cookies are made with just 4 ingredients, including almond flour and coconut flour, which means they are also gluten-free, paleo, and grain-free!

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What Are Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies?

Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies are a healthier version of the classic vegan peanut butter cookies with a delicious peanut butter flavor, but they are also:

• Egg-free
• Refined sugar-free
• Gluten-free
• Dairy-free

Also, the best healthy peanut butter cookies are made with gluten-free, low-carb flour – almond flour and coconut flour.

Low-carb flours are great flours to keep your blood sugar level stable for longer.

Plus, they are high in fiber and very fulfilling, which means you won’t overeat these easy healthy vegan coconut flour peanut butter cookies.

Why You’ll Love These Healthy Cookies

These are 4-ingredient vegan peanut butter cookies.

That means they are made without eggs or butter. Instead, they simply use nourishing plant-based ingredients to keep your cookies:

• High in protein
• Low in sugar
• High in fiber – almond flour and coconut flour are both high-fiber and high-protein flour. As a result, these cookies are very fulfilling and make the best vegan cookies.
• Low in saturated fats

Ingredients

All you need to make these easy healthy peanut butter cookies with no eggs are 4 simple ingredients.

They are not only healthy but also straightforward to make! You don’t even need a flax egg or coconut oil, or vegan butter to make these healthy cookies!

• Peanut Butter – make sure you are using natural peanut butter. I always recommend using fresh, smooth peanut butter with no added oil or sugar. Of course, you can use nut butter like almond butter or cashew butter in this recipe. Make sure it’s fresh from the jar, runny and smooth.
• Maple Syrup – Or any liquid sweetener you love. For example, if you want a low-fructose, low-glycemic index sweetener, try brown rice syrup. For a keto vegan cookie, use monk fruit syrup. But don’t use crystal sweeteners like brown sugar or white sugar. The vegan cookies will be too dry, and the batter won’t come together.
• Coconut Flour – Fresh, no lumps.
• Almond Flour – Use fine blanched almond flour for best results. Almond meal is coarser and makes the cookies a bit dry. You can also replace almond flour with oat flour.

How To Make Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

There is nothing easier than these peanut butter cookies with almond flour and maple syrup.

The cookie batter is ready in 15 minutes, and they are easy to whip by anyone looking for an easy peanut butter cookie recipe.

1. In a small bowl, combine the maple syrup and natural peanut butter. You can add vanilla extract at this point if desired.

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2. Stir in coconut flour and almond flour. If you want to add some vegan chocolate chips, chia seeds, or flaxseed, add them to the flour mixture. Combine with a spoon until it forms the peanut butter cookie dough. This is totally optional, but these vegan cookies taste so much better with 1/2 cup of dark chocolate chips!

3. Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a baking tray with parchment paper and arrange each cookie dough ball on the tray, leaving half a thumb of space between each ball.

4. Then, use the back of a fork to press down the cookies and shape a cross shape on top. Bake the healthy peanut butter cookies until your almond flour peanut butter cookies are golden brown.
5. Cool the cookies on a wire rack at room temperature. Enjoy immediately or store in a cookie jar in the pantry.

Vegan Peanut Butter Cookie Add-Ons

There is always a way to make peanut butter cookies better.

To boost the flavors of this vegan cookie recipe, add some of the addition below:

• Chocolate Chips. Add up to 1/3 cup of vegan chocolate chips into the vegan cookie batter.
• Baking Powder or baking soda is optional. But if you like your vegan cookie a bit more fluffy, you can add 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda or 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder to the recipe.
• Sea Salt – a pinch of sea salt enhances this peanut butter cookie’s flavor. Of course, don’t add sea salt if you used salted natural peanut butter, or your vegan cookie will be very salty.
• Vanilla Extract – you can add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract to the peanut butter cookie dough.
• Xanthan Gum. If you are new to grain-free baking, xanthan gum helps flours bind together and adds a little chew to cookies. For a chewy peanut butter cookie, add 1/4 teaspoon of xanthan gum to the cookie dough. Be aware that to make a healthy peanut butter cookie recipe, I don’t recommend using xanthan gum. It can cause bloating.
• Chia Seeds of flax seeds. 1 tablespoon of seed can be added to the cookie dough to boost protein and healthy omega-3.

Serving Suggestions

The best way to serve cookies, vegan or not, is with a glass of creamy beverage. It can be a vegan smoothie or a glass of soy milk, or almond milk. Vanilla almond milk makes the most delicious combo with these peanut butter cookies.

You can also dip them in Vegan Whipped Cream or Peanut Butter Dip.

Frequently Asked Questions

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