Almond Butter 4 Ingredient Cookies

Almond Butter Cookies are 4 ingredient cookies that take advantage of rich and creamy almond butter. You can curb your sweets craving in no time at all with this easy dessert that's also a rewarding snack. 

I really look forward to my 'sweets day' when I get to bake. On the agenda today is something simple and sweet - Almond Butter Cookies. Only four ingredients and you get to take advantage of almond butter instead of peanut butter.

I did them two different ways not realizing how different they were going to turn out. The outcome is awesome in both cases.

Coconut Sugar with a Flax Seed Egg and Organic Granulated Sugar using Ener-G Egg replacer.

It is amazing how different each cookie turned out in looks and taste.

This is what happens when you're in the kitchen and try to make up a recipe. Surprises abound.

I could actually make two separate recipes for them in two different posts but there are only four ingredients in each case and it just seemed like I should share them both right here.

Almond Cookies Two Ways - Two Winners

VEGAN ALMOND BUTTER COOKIES WITH COCONUT SUGAR

The texture and look change a bit when you change the sugar.

So I went ahead and put the coconut sugar recipe in the recipe card. Only one can go on the card so that the nutritional facts come out right.

• Right off the bat, the dough is darker from the sugar and the cookie dough tastes really good.
• The amazing part of this mix is that the cookies spread out quite thin. They can even go as flat as a these Chocolate Oatmeal Lace Cookies.
• I prefer not to cook them as crispy as lace cookies though. They are softly chewy cookies when you bake them for 9 minutes.
• During the baking, the cookies start to spread but they aren't baked to the 'flat' stage.
• After they've cooled on a cooling rack you have the best rich and deep flavored cookie.

ALMOND BUTTER COOKIES WITH ORGANIC GRANULATED SUGAR

• Here you have a light cookie almond colored dough that holds it's shape in a rounded form.
• They roll into perfect little balls and you bake them without flattening them out.
• The bottoms will get a little dark so I use a baking silicone pad or parchment paper in the baking sheet to keep them all one color.
• The cookies also bake in 9 minutes but keep a very rounded shape and are easy to pop in your mouth.

Can you believe that? Two different cookies just like that! Both with 4 ingredients, both with almond butter and both tasting really really good.

4 Ingredient Cookies

So let's get mixing. Mix the flaxseed meal with the water and set it aside so that it can thicken. That takes about 5 minutes.

In a large bowl add the coconut sugar, almond butter, the gelled flax egg and ground almond. Mix well.

It comes together in a nice dark dough that is formed easily into balls.

You don't need to do anything to the baking sheet for this mix. Just place the balls about 2 inches apart and slightly flatten them with the tines from the back side of a fork.

They pretty much flatten themselves in baking but this gets them going.

Check the cookies at 8 minutes to see if they are spreading nicely for the coconut sugar recipe. If they aren't as flat as you'd like bake for the whole 9 minutes. This is just a check for the first time since some of our ovens seem to heat a bit differently.

4 ingredient cookies are always a nice break for baking and when you can make them vegan almond butter cookies then you have something extra special.

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