Peanut Butter Cookies (Sugar Free, Dairy Free, Wheat Free)

So I'm trying to type and eat at the same time.

These cookies are my new love.

Dangerous.

And good for you.

And one of my kiddos even eats them.

What more can I say.

Oh, they're raw... so they're instant. Mmm-hmmm!

To make 10

1/2 cup pitted dates and 1 tsb hot water, blitzed to a puree.
1/3 cup ground almonds
2 tbsp porridge oats
2 tsp ground hemp or flax seeds - optional, but oh so good for you - if you don't have them just use 2 tsp extra ground almonds
1 heaped tablespoon peanut butter (ours is sweetened already, if yours is not you may want to taste the mix and add 1 tsp maple syrup)
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp melted coconut oil/butter


Method? What method. You blitz the dates till smooth however you can - I managed it with a stick blender in a tall jug.
Stir.
Divide into balls and flatten.
Sure you can pretend that you need to know how long to chill them for, but you and I know they won't make it to the fridge!

Lucy Loves...

My Perfect All-American Chocolate Cake - it disappeared WAY too fast, I'm missing it already! Described thus: "Imagine if a brownie and a chocolate cake had a baby. This would be it..."

I love condensed milk - preferably out of the tin with a spoon! - so this Condensed Milk Pound Cake at Sweet as Sugar Cookies sounded good to me!

The prettiest pink macaroons with raspberries and cream - you have to see these! 

Oh forgot all about this peanut butter cookie cake, got to try it!

Lucy Loves...

What's cooking this week?

• My instant donuts- oh mama they were good!! 
• Spring flower tea from Dreaming Aloud
• Fushi - fake+sushi made from sweets!! And more here! Perfect for a cherry blossom picnic!
• Tie Dye cupcakes- rainbow colour wonders, seeing is believing!
• The best peanut butter fudge anyone?
• Or do Strawberry & White Chocolate Passion Fruit Soups With Mixed Berries Muffins sound intriguing to you?

Peanut Butter Blondies

With thanks to Rachel Allen from whose book Bake I got the original, even sweeter, version. I know, because I know her, that she makes these for her school bake sale. Easy as pie to make, easy as sin to devour: blink and they're gone. Ditch the guilt and (like me) persuade yourself they're a health food because they've got nuts in! I nearly didn't make them. Cooked peanut butter, I thought, yuck, how American! But take it from me, if you like peanut butter these are all good!

Like brownies in texture and more-ishness, but not, obviously, in colour - hence blondies. Cunning!