Nut butter cookies...

Easy nut butter cookies! Use whatever you like; peanut, almond, abc, or whatever other nut butter you have.

32 cookies...

Nut butter cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup of nut butter
• 2/3 cup of melted butter
• 1/2 cup of brown sugar
• 1/2 cup of caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 cups of flour
• 1/3 tsp of baking powder
• Pinch of salt
• Optionally, vanilla bean paste to taste.

Method

• Preheat oven to 180C.
• Mix the sugars and the wet ingredients in a bowl, making sure the butter is room temperature-ish so it doesn't cook the egg.
• In another bowl, mix the baking powder, salt, and flour together.
• Sift the flour in 1/3 or 1/4 at a time, mixing in between.
• If you choose to mix anything into the cookies (e.g. seeds, chocolate, dried fruit, marshmallows), add them now and knead it through.
• Line a tray, preferably a pizza tray, with baking paper.
• Divide the dough into 1 tbsp-ish sized balls, or half the dough, then halve the half, then halve the half, until you have 32 balls. Spread them evenly across the tray. If using a pizza tray only 16ish will fit.
• Press the dough balls down with a fork, then rotate the tray and do it again to make a hash on top.
• Bake for about 12-15 minutes. They should go golden on the edges, but not fully brown.. Leave them for 10 or so minutes, then move them to a cooling rack.

Notes...
These are sooooo good with super dark chocolate drizzled over them. Yum.
I have made these with gluten free flour once, and they worked very well! As for butter and egg swaps, margarine, coconut oil, or a neutral oil work fine. Any fat really. The egg is used as a binder, so a flaxseed egg should work, but I haven't tested that.