These Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies are the best vegan cookies ever made in the history of vegan cookies. A little salty, a little sweet, crispy around the edges and soft in the middle. Make these! Double your batch! They will be eaten.
If you're a chocolate fan, mix in a cup of vegan chocolate chips.
Recipe adapted from the fabulous, Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar.
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Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 14 mins
- Total Time: 34 minutes
- Yield: 30 1x
Ingredients
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- 1 ⅓ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ¼ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups oats (quick cooking or rolled)
- ½ cup canola oil
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ½ cup sugar
- ¾ cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
- ⅓ cup nondairy milk
- 4 teaspoons ground flaxseed meal
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F. Lightly grease two baking sheets or line with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Stir in oats and set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat together oil, peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar, nondairy milk, flax seed and vanilla until smooth. Fold in the flour mixture, half at a time.
- Spoon about a tablespoon of dough on the cookie sheet, spacing about 2 inches apart. Flatten slightly.
- Bake for 12 to 14 minutes, until the edges just begin to brown. Let cookies rest on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 30
- Calories: 214
- Sugar: 10
- Sodium: 190
- Fat: 11
- Carbohydrates: 23
- Fiber: 2
- Protein: 6
- Cholesterol: 0
oh my,,,,these little cookies are out of this world. must try! started eating the dough even before baking, cant stop!!! What an amazing recipe - thank you for creating it! xx
ps. made a couple of small amends - 1/used 50/50 almond and peanut butter. 2/ only used 1/2 cup of dark brown sugar and no other sugar added, but included 40 grams of chopped dark chocolate, 3/ used both flaxseed and 2 table spoons of chia seeds mixed with water.
Rebecca - Thanks so much for your gluten-free, nut-free fix!!! We'll definitely give it a try. 🙂
Great recipe, thank you. I subbed 215 g GF flour mix for the flour and 3/4 tsp xanthan gum, and used Sunbutter instead of peanut butter. They came out great!
So delicious! Everyone loved them 🙂
As a new vegan I wanted a good oatmeal cookie. Found this and they are fabulous! No brown sugar so i ussed a cup5 of white sugar and drizzled in some molasses. Have never thought of adding peanut butter to oatmeal cookies, but oh, WOW! WHAT A FABULOUS COOKIE! Thanks very much!
I could not wait to try these cookies as I could only see '5" stars, however, I found these lacking in taste so I could only rate these a "2." I could not taste any peanut butter and I double checked to make sure I had included the correct amount. Sorry, but I'll be looking for a new one.
Hey Beatrice! Love your name, btw. That was one of my top picks before we found out our youngest was a BOY! They're an absolute favorite around here too! I just love them 🙂
I have made these cookies many times now and my friends and family love them! They are so easy. Thank you for this recipe!
I can't wait to make these! Thanks!
I just made these for the first time for my kids visiting this afternoon. They are quite superb. The texture is perfect , the light saltiness sublime. But why oh why do you Americans have to use the Cup measurements ? LB´s and oz´s work fine for us , grams for the Euros. I could sort of understand the logic of cups if one cup of flour was the same as one cup of peanut butter or milk , but No ! I must have sat here for half an hour comparing the results from 5 different weight and volume conversion websites until I found 2 like results. Complaining aside , I now have the perfect recipe , and shall make these cookies every time my little guys come over. Ya all take care.
One of the very few if not only vegan cookie recipes I've made that turned out perfect!! I replaced the canola with coconut oil and I lightly salted them along with sprinkling a bit of sugar on top! Lovely flavor and texture! Will definitely be saving this recipe!
Ok I just made these. I added one cup of carob chips, used coconut oil instead of canola, added about 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder and used whole wheat flour instead of regular. Theyre so good someone is going to have to come here and take them from me because im about to not fit into my skinny jeans after this. They make a lot . So i froze half the dough -
Oh I know! They're just the best. And as a side note, I also had to cut out dairy while nursing (I was already a vegetarian) and never went back 😉 Turned out, I felt much better without it too!
Had to cut out dairy because I'm nursing and I love desserts! Came across this recipe and LOVE these cookies! Never looked for another option and will continue to make them even when I can eat dairy again!
Yum! That sounds fantastic. I love a good bar 🙂
I made them as bars. Used a 13 x 9 baking pan lined with greased parchment & baked 5 minutes longer than the recipe states. They came out great!
Good texture but they came out flavorless. Very bland! They need more spices and perhaps a larger quantity of vanilla.
Any other egg replacer will do the job 🙂
Is there anything I can use instead of flaxseed while still keeping it vegan? The cookies look amazinggg I HAVE to try them but don't have any flaxseed! Thanks.
Yeah, absolutely. I think applesauce would work great or a little mashed banana. Report back and let us know how it turns out!
Is there any way I can make the recipe without using oil?
That is an amazing idea! I LOVE it and will definitely try it myself next time.
I like subbing quinoa flakes for oatmeal and earth balance for canola oil -- everyone loved them!
Thank you so much!
@Ana - That's a great question! Here's a link to a great conversion chart for using Stevia in baking. Truvia even makes products specifically for replacing regular or brown sugar, but I think they still have some sugar in them. http://truvia.com/recipes/conversion_chart
Hi. Is there a substitute of sugar I can use like stevia and what portions? Thank you.
@ALFR - Hmmm. Not sure about that. Baking is more of a science and you might not get the results you're after with the extra peanut butter. You could try the egg substitute... let us know how it goes!
Hi - I'm about to make this recipe right now. My peanut butter contains a large amount of both flax and chia seeds. Can I just add a little more of this instead of the flaxseed meal? I also have egg substitute if emulsification is the goal. Thank you!
@Mary - Yes, whole wheat four should work as well 🙂
Can you use whole wheat flour?
Yummy! I made them with Old fashion oats instead of quick oats! They came out amazing, melted in my mouth!!! My family loved them! Thank you for the recipe 🙂
These are excellent cookies, but a little dense. I found the best way to make them is large and flat. They will stay chewy despite being pretty flat.
@Desi - Aww, thanks! That's so great to hear!!! These are totally the best cookies ever 🙂
My family is not vegan but we like to try all types of recipes. Especially dessert recipes! These cookies have surpassed our non-vegan cookies and I'm ALWAYS asked the recipe whenever I make them. Love your site and Love these cookies! 🙂
@manchuán: Macadamia nut butter would be awesome! Glad you like them!!!
great cookies, people still say, theyre vegan really?? made them with macadamia nut butter instead - thanks!
@Jinet - For sure! Or you can always freeze half. Another thing to consider is that vegans desserts are awesome! Take the extras to work and make a few converts outta them 😉
Hello! I'm the only vegan in my house and 30 cookies is too many for me. How do I cut the recipe in half?
@Sarah - I haven't tried freezing the dough, but I think it would work. I would set them up on a cookie sheet, like you're going to bake them but put them in the freezer instead for a couple hours. After they're solid you can transfer them to a freezer bag. Next time I make them I'll be sure to give it try. Let us know if you have success with the freeze! These are VERY good cookies, it would be nice to have them at the ready.
Has anyone tried freezing this dough (or the actual cookies)? I love these and would love to be able to save some for later!
I made these and they turned out great. I always found that the vegan cookies I made in the past always turned out greasy. These were delicious and not greasy! Definitely a recipie I will be using over again. Thanks for the recipie.
@Caitlin- These are still my all time favorite cookies! Glad you're enjoying them.
Super good! I just made them and used chia seeds instead of the flax meal. Even the dough was awesome :). Thank you for the recipe!
- Caitlin
@Cindy - Yes! These are the best. So glad you liked them 🙂
These cookies were awesome!
I used hemp seed because I had no flax seed and used alittle more
plain soy milk to hold them together.
I also added some vegan chocolate chips.
Everyone loved them and my friend just called to get the recipe.
Thanks for sharing with us!
Sincerely
Cindy