Monday, May 10, 2010

Flourless Sunflower Seed Butter Cookies

These cookies are simple to make and so yummy. They are an amazing peanut butter cookie replacement.


1 Cup Sunflower Seed Butter
1 Cup Sugar (I used organic cane)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 Tablespoon Flax Meal combined with 3 Tb. Hot Water in a seperate container- let it soak while you are combining the other ingredients it turns into a egg white consisestency OR 1 Egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1/4 teaspoon sea salt.

Preheat the oven to 350°.

Cream the sunflower seed butter and sugar in a bowl by hand. Beat in the baking powder, salt and vanilla. Add the flax mixture or egg. Mix until it is all well combined.

The dough will be sticky. Roll some dough into a ball. The smaller the cookied the better it holds together during the pan to rack transfer. Roll the ball in sugar. Line a baking sheet, covered in parchment paper, with sugary balls of dough. I used a Pampered Chef stone cookie sheet and lightly sprayed it oil.

Bake in the oven for about ten minutes (my oven took 15 minutes) Take the tray out of the oven and let the cookies rest for at least five minutes. Afterwards, carefully transfer them to a cooling rack. After ten minutes or so, they will have hardened.

Sunflower Seed Butter can be purchased at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Raley's and many other health food stores. The best price of course is Trader Joe's.

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