Vegan Peanut Butter Truffle Blossom Cookies

Each Christmas my Grandma would make tons of cookies and treats of various varieties then present individuals tins or plates of them.  She would all the time make spritz cookies, rosettes, krumkake, divinity, and peanut blossoms.  The peanut blossoms have been my favourite.  They have been additionally my Dad’s favourite, I feel he might have simply eaten an entire plate of simply these, however I nonetheless beloved the range and the way fairly the cookies all appeared collectively.  I do not make most of them anymore, largely as a result of I haven’t got a spritz maker, or a krumkake iron, or a rosette iron.  However I nonetheless make the simplest of all of them and my favourite, the peanut blossoms.

I’ve veganized them, and make them somewhat bit extra suited to my grown up tastes nonetheless. For the bottom, I’ve traded within the Skippy and Jif we used to make them with for my hand-crafted peanut butter that simply comprises peanuts and somewhat little bit of sea salt.  I all the time have it available as a result of I’m obsessive about peanut butter, and I like making my very own.  Truthfully I’m going by means of a jar every week.  If you need to make your personal too, simply mix up 3-4 cups dry roasted peanuts in a excessive pace blender, urgent the nuts down into the blade with the tamper till they turn into butter (or alternatively you need to use a meals processor, it simply will not get as clean, will take longer and you’ll have to cease it a couple of instances to scrape it down).

I used maple sugar for the sweetener within the cookies, however you can additionally use coconut sugar or (or a combination of half granulated half brown sugar in the event you want that).  I identical to that the maple sugar provides the cookies a slight maple taste!  For the flour I used natural entire wheat pastry as a result of that’s what I had available and like, however in the event you wished to make these gluten free, you can swap it for Bob’s Purple Mill Gluten Free All Function baking flour 1:1.  I’ve used it earlier than and know it really works nicely.

Lastly, as soon as the cookies have been all baked and scrumptious, as an alternative of urgent in a Hershey’s Kiss like the normal ones (since they don’t seem to be vegan and I want extra actual chocolate), I pressed a gap into the middle and made my very own peanut butter chocolate truffle filling!  Belief me it’s sooo rather more scrumptious!  They’re wonderful! In case you are a fan of peanut blossoms (or simply chocolate and PB generally), undoubtedly give these Vegan Truffle Blossom Cookies a strive!

Vegan Peanut Butter Truffle Blossom Cookies

Elements:

Cookies:

• 1 cup brown sugar, maple sugar or coconut sugar
• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1/2 cup melted coconut oil
• 1 Tbsp floor flax seed combined with 3 Tbsp filtered water (allowed to take a seat quarter-hour earlier than utilizing)
• 1 1/2 cups natural entire wheat pastry flour*
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder

Filling:

• 3/4 cup chopped vegan darkish chocolate
• 1/4 cup cup plus 2 Tbsp clean peanut butter (you need PB that isn’t too thick, simply clean and spreadable, the sort with simply peanuts and salt).

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350F levels, and line a sheet 2 pans with parchment.
2. In a big bowl, combine collectively the sugar, coconut oil, and flax seed combination till clean.
3. Add the flour, soda and powder and blend till nicely mixed and uniform in coloration. Roll the dough into 1 inch balls, and place on the ready cookie sheets 2 inches aside.
4. Place the cookies within the oven and bake for about 13 minutes or till frivolously brown and set.
5. Take away from the oven and press the spherical deal with finish of a whisk or wood spoon (or one thing comparable in measurement) frivolously into the middle of every of the cookies immediately to make an indentation in every one (the place you’ll put the truffle filling).  Let the cookies cool fully.
6. To make the truffle filling, within the high of a double boiler soften the chocolate till clean then add the peanut butter and whisk till nicely mixed.  Place in a pastry bag (or a ziplock bag with the nook minimize off), and pipe into the middle of every cookie.
7. Place within the freezer till set, about 20 minutes.
8. Get pleasure from!

Cookies maintain for about 1 week in an hermetic container on the counter or 3 weeks refrigerated, or 4 months within the freezer.

*If you happen to would favor to make these gluten free, swap the natural entire wheat pastry flour 1:1 with Bob’s Purple Mill Gluten Free All Function Baking Flour (I’ve tried this model and know it really works nicely).