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Gluten Free SunButter Cookies (Vegan)

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Missing peanut butter cookies? These allergy friendly and vegan Gluten Free SunButter cookies are like a cross between shortbread and a soft cookie. They are delicious and completely nut free!

photo collage of gluten free sunbutter cookies on a cooling rack

We’ve got another great cookie recipe today! Since “cookie” is in my name (amy blog name, that is), I plan on living up to that and including cookie recipes regularly on the blog 🙂

Peanut Butter cookies have been a personal favorite of mine for years, but since my kids have peanut allergies, we don’t keep peanut butter in the house. I was determined to create a SunButter version of my favorite peanut butter cookies that are egg-free and don’t turn green.

stack of vegan sunbutter cookies on a baking sheet

SunButter can turn green?? Yep, it happens. SunButter (and ground sunflower seeds) tends to turn certain recipes a green color, but I have discovered that only happens when I use baking soda or baking powder. The pH change in the recipe can cause the naturally occurring chlorogenic acid in the sunflower seeds (and SunButter) to turn a green color.

Since I wanted my peanut-free SunButter cookies to look just like regular peanut butter cookies, so I skipped the baking soda and baking powder, making these delicious Gluten-Free SunButter Cookies a nice golden color with a nice shortbread texture. So yummy!

peanut free sunbutter cookies lined up on a cooling rack

I got the general idea for this recipe from one of my favorite peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipes that had that wonderful shortbread texture, but since these are gluten-free and egg-free I had to start from scratch creating the recipe and came up with my own.

I went through several baking sessions little tweaks here and there to get the cookies just right and keep them a bit healthier, but I finally hit on this recipe that is perfect. P.S. the cookie dough tastes pretty awesome, too!

How to make SunButter cookies

I used baking Stevia in the Raw for these to help reduce the sugar, but if you’d like to use all cane sugar for this recipe, replace the baking Stevia with unbleached cane sugar, not brown sugar, or there will be a bit too much moisture in the dough.

stack of peanut free sunbutter cookies on a baking sheet

When you mix the dough for these cookies, the dough will seem dry and crumbly at first, but resist the urge to add anything extra to the recipe. This is exactly how the dough should be. If you add any additional milk or oil to the recipe, the cookies will spread out a bit and the texture will be different.

Once you’ve mixed everything up, press the dough crumbles into a big ball, then pinch off the amount of dough you need for each cookie, roll into balls, then flatten on the cookie sheet with a fork.

gluten free sunbutter cookie with a bite taken

You won’t need to put the fork in flour or anything before pressing the cookies down, these have enough oil to keep the fork from sticking to the cookie dough.

Want some chocolate in these cookies? Add some allergy friendly mini chocolate chips, my kids love those! If you add mini chips, just press the cookies down with your fingers to flatten instead of a using a fork. Who can resist chocolate chips and peanut butter SunButter!

After these cookies have baked, they will be a bit crumbly until they cool off. Make sure to let them cool off for about 5-10 minutes on the cookie sheet before removing to the cooling rack.

photo of stack of sunbutter cookies with text overlay

Once they cool, these SunButter cookies won’t be crumbly, but when they’re hot they tend to fall apart a little since they are a bit like shortbread. Wait a few minutes for them to cool, you won’t be disappointed!

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Gluten-Free SunButter Cookies (Vegan)

Missing peanut butter cookies? These allergy friendly and vegan Gluten Free SunButter cookies are like a cross between shortbread and a soft cookie. They are delicious and completely nut free!
Gluten free, vegan, nut free, low-FODMAP; Free of: peanuts, tree nuts, soy, eggs, dairy
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Course: Cookies
Cuisine: American
Keyword: gluten free sunbutter cookies, peanut free cookies, sunbutter cookies
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 14 minutes
Total Time: 29 minutes
Servings: 17 cookies
Calories: 99kcal

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside
  • In a small cup, stir together the flax seed and water. Set aside
  • In a medium bowl, with a hand blender, beat together the SunButter and palm shortening until creamy
  • Beat in the brown sugar, Stevia in the Raw, vanilla, and the flax water mixture
  • Add the sorghum flour and salt to the SunButter mixture and beat together until blended and a thick but crumbly dough forms. Press the dough together into a large ball
  • Pinch off pieces of cookie dough and roll into balls about 1-1/2 inches in size, then press a fork cross-wise into the dough to slightly flatten the cookies
  • Bake the cookies on the prepared cookie sheet for 13-14 minutes
  • Allow cookies to cool for about 5 minutes on the cookies sheet before removing them to a cooling rack
  • Enjoy!

Nutrition

Calories: 99kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0g | Trans Fat: 0g | Cholesterol: 0mg | Sodium: 35mg | Potassium: 17mg | Fiber: 0g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 5IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 0.4mg
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8 thoughts on “Gluten Free SunButter Cookies (Vegan)”

  1. We love making SunButter cookies around here. Or basically anything with SunButter…. it’s just a life saver. And these cookies look delicious! I’ll have to try them with Stevia in the Raw next time.

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