Vegan Peanut Butter Oat Cookies

Now lets be real...when I think of cookies I usually assume that they are baked and have butter, and eggs. These are AWESOME and the kiddos love them. If you like eating the dough before your mom got the cookies in the oven, you will especially like these. They do combine the three elements of awesome cookies, oatmeal, peanutbutter, and chocolate chips. Meghan Donohue found this recipe for me and we made some tweaks so we can call it our own :)

No Bake Vegan Peanut Butter Oat Cookies
You will need :

• 3/4 cup oat flour
• 3/4 cup rolled oats (we used old fashioned, not quick cooking)
• 1 cup pitted dates – comes out to about 8-9 dates
• 1/2 cup organic peanut butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• almond milk – start with 2 tablespoons and add more if needed to make the dough moist enough to press into balls
• 1 cup 60% cacao chocolate chips or carob chips

Directions:

1. In a food processor, pulse dates until broken down into crumb size pieces.
2. Add flour, oats, peanut butter, vanilla, almond milk. We started with pulsing in the food processor, but found that it was easier to put it in a bowl and mix while squashing with a spatula while adding the almond milk gradually. Then you are in control of the dough and can gauge the moisture level better.
3. If adding chocolate chips, stir in.
4. Form into small round balls and place on parchment or wax paper covered dish. We used a medium cookie scoop which helped press the dough together in a uniform way, then we squished them down so they looked like a disk of cookie.
5. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes
6. Enjoy!!