Salted Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup all natural creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup coconut sugar (to make them sweeter you can use 1 cup of granulated sugar or 1/2 cup coconut sugar and 1/2 cup granulated sugar.)
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Course sea salt, to top
- Mix-ins of your choosing. I used semi sweet chocolate chips and banana chips.
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a baking sheet and set it aside.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, add your peanut butter and your sugar and mix until they are completely combined.
- Beat your egg and your vanilla together and add them to the peanut butter mixture. Stir together until they are completely combined.
- If you want to add anything additional to your batter, like chocolate chips, you can fold them in now. Remember not to add too many or your batter will not stick together. I would start with a 1/4 cup at a time and gauge if there is still enough dough to add more. Be cautious.
- Scoop batter, by the tablespoon-full, onto your greased baking sheet.
- Using a fork, smash the cookie down gently, leaving the imprint of your fork on the top of each cookie.
- Sprinkle the tops of your cookies with course sea salt.
- Put the cookies into the oven for 10 minutes, or until the edges are golden brown. Make sure to check your cookies half way through and flip your pan around so that all the cookies bake evenly. When your cookies are done, the edges will be golden, but they will not appear to be completely set up. They will harden quite a bit as they cool. Don't worry.
- Allow your cookies to cool for fifteen minutes or so before trying to remove them from your baking sheet with a spatula.
- Enjoy!
