Recipe | Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine took me to a vegan restaurant in Montreal, called Aux Vivres, and I loved it. I know, "VEGAN" restaurant. If you had told me years ago that I would one day eat a vegan meal, I would probably have laughed. If you had told me I would enjoy it on top of it, I would have lost it. Like most people, I use to think that vegans ate nothing but bird food, resulting in a boring and insufficient diet.

That is the most wrong one could ever be. Vegan food is not only tasty, delicious and varied, it is healthy for both us, and the planet. Being sort of a foodie myself, I could never be happy on a boring diet, and veganism is everything but boring.
In honour of all that, I wanted to share with you a recipe (from Renees's Kitchen Adventures) for vegan peanut butter cookies, because vegans can have dessert too!

Ingredients: 
1 cup of natural peanut butter
1 cup of packed brown sugar
2 tsp of vanilla extract
1/4 cup of almond milk
1 cup of oat flour (like Renee suggests, I processed 1 cup of oats to turn them into flour)
1 tsp of baking soda
1/4 tsp of salt











Instructions:
In the bowl of a stand-alone mixer, put the peanut butter, brown sugar, vanilla extract and almond milk. Blend until smooth.
Put in the baking soda and salt, and blend again.
Slowly add in the oat flour, and blend until the mixture is smooth.

On a greased baking sheet (I used a reusable silicon liner, because parchemin paper is wasteful...), put spoonfuls of dough, and press them with a wet fork to make them flatter.

Bake for about 10 minutes at 350°F.

These cookies are honestly delicious. They're tender and sweet, and just gooey enough. They make for the perfect, guilt-free vegan treat. Enjoy!

Thank you for reading :)