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Salted Chocolate Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

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1 cup salted peanut butter
¼ cup almond flour
½ cup caster sugar (super fine sugar)
1 flax egg (1 tablespoon ground flaxseed + 3 tablespoons warm water, stir well, and allow the mixture to set for about 10 minutes)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup 30g vegan dark chocolate chunks
¼ - ½ teaspoon flaky sea salt (to your taste)

1
Preheat the oven and prepare a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a baking mat.
2
Mix the peanut butter, almond flour, sugar, egg, vanilla extract in a bowl until well-mixed, followed by the vegan chocolate chunks.
3
Using a spoon, scoop between1-1.5 tablespoons of dough and form into a small ball.
4
Drop the cookie dough balls unto a parchment lined baking sheet.
5
Repeat until the rest of the dough has been used up (you may need 2 baking trays).
6
Make sure each cookie ball is about 1.5 inches away from the others.
7
Using a fork, press down on the cookie ball to flatten it. The repeat in the opposite direction so you end up with criss-cross marks. Continue till all the cookies are flattened.
8
Sprinkle on the salt then bake in the preheated oven for 10-14 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are browning.
9
Transfer the cookies sheet to a cooling rack and let cool before removing (as they are fragile and will break if you try and remove them when hot)