Vegan Sunflower Butter Cookies

Total Time: 27 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, unbleached (or light spelt flour, which i love!)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/3-1/2 cup natural-style peanut butter (available in the natural foods section of supermarkets, or at specialty health-food stores) or 1/3-1/2 cup sunflower seed butter (available in the natural foods section of supermarkets, or at specialty health-food stores)
• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon molasses
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 -3 tablespoons canola oil
• 2 -3 tablespoons water, as needed

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f
• 2 sift together the ingredients from flour through salt.
• 3 in a separate bowl, combine the sunflower seed butter and all other ingredients, and whisk well. add to the dry ingredients, and stir 'em up.
• 4 spoon the batter in roughly circular blobs (heehee) onto a baking pan lined with parchment paper. (they flatten quite a bit!) mark them with a fork that's been dipped in icewater after each cookie.
• 5 bake for 10-12 minutes, just till nice and golden on the bottom.
• 6 after they rest on the sheet for a couple minutes, remove to a cooling rack. but they're good warm or cold ;).
• 7 finally: these would be amazing with semi-sweet chocolate chips or dried cherries. let me know if you try that!