Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies (Vegan)
Peanut butter oatmeal cookies - these moreish vegan cookies are soft, chunky, hearty and utterly delicious! Made with oats, peanut butter, chocolate chips and pecan nuts they are easy to make and don't require any chilling before baking!
Servings 12 cookies
Ingredients
- 120 g (½ cup) vegan block butter (I use Naturli Vegan Block) slightly softened
- 120 g (½ cup) smooth creamy peanut butter
- 100 g (½ cup + 1 Tablespoon) light brown soft sugar
- 50 g (¼ cup) caster or granulated sugar
- 2 Tablespoons non dairy milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 150 g (1 ¼ cups) plain (all-purpose) flour
- 100 g (1 cup + 2 Tablespoons) rolled porridge oats (not jumbo ones)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 80 g (½ cup) chocolate chips
- 80 g (½ cup) roughly chopped pecans or walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/350°F/gas mark 4. Line two metal baking sheets with baking parchment.
- Whisk together the butter, peanut butter, sugars, milk and vanilla extract with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, oats, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and stir until well combined. Mix in the chocolate chips and chopped nuts.
- Use a cookie scoop or small ice cream scoop to portion out 12 balls of cookie dough and place them well spaced apart on the lined baking sheets. There is no need to flatten them (unless you prefer thinner cookies).
- Bake for 15-18 minutes until golden around the edges. The cookies will still be very soft but will firm up as they cool.
- Allow to cool on the trays for 5 minutes then carefully transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- See post above for tips, details and step-by-step photos.
- All of my recipes are developed using grams, and as with all of my baking recipes I really do recommend using the metric measurements with a digital scale rather than the cup coversions. Cups are a wildly inaccurate measuring system and you will get far better, more consistent results using a scale, not to mention that it is also easier and less messy than cups!