Peanut Butter!

Here's another excellent vegan biscuit recipe. These are not chewy like the double chocolate-chip cookies but they have a nice and rich peanut butter flavour. Peanut butter is something that every vegan should at least sometimes have in their cupboards. As a vegan you can't put cheese on your bread to get some proteins so peanut butter is a great choice. It also has vital unsaturated fats and magnesium. Make sure that you choose unsweetened peanut butter. The ingredients list should have the maximum of two ingredients, that is peanuts and salt. So if you happen to have some of this delicious butter in your kitchen cupboard why not bake something with it!

Fruity baby-foods are excellent egg-replacements in baking. You can just as well use any fruit mash but baby foods just come in such good portion sizes (a rule of the thumb is to replace one egg with one small can of baby food). You can choose pretty much any flavour you like but in this recipe I recommend using something yellow, like mango or peach.

Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate-chip Cookies 

Makes approximately 20 cookies.

• 100 grams margarine
• 1½ decilitres cane sugar
• 1 decilitre mango flavoured baby food (or fruit mash)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
• 1 1/4 decilitres smooth peanut butter
• 3 decilitres flour (I used half whole wheat and half all-purpose flour)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 80 grams dark vegan chocolate chips

Preheat the oven into 175°C. Cover a sheet pan with bakery paper. Beat the butter and sugar with a mixer until it's fluffy. Beat in the peanut butter, vanilla sugar and baby food. Mix the flour and baking soda in a separate bowl. Add the dry ingredients into the peanut butter-mixture and mix well. Fold in the chocolate chips. If the batter is too soft to form into balls put it in the fridge to cool down.

Roll the dough into approximately 3cm balls. Place them on the baking sheet 5cm apart. Press the balls down with a fork to make a crisscross pattern. Bake the cookies for 10 minutes or until the edges have just slightly started to brown. Let the cookies cool down.