Recipe: Peanut butter chocolate pillows

Having just purchased the book Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero and finding that the recipes in the book have completely changed my vegan baked goods, here’s the recipe for the "Peanut Butter Chocolate Pillows" I baked last week:

Chocolate dough:

• ½ cup oil
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ¼ cup maple syrup or other natural sweetener
• ¼ cup nondairy milk
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1½ cups flour
• ½ cup cocoa powder
• ½ tsp. baking soda

Peanut butter filling:

• ¾ cup peanut butter
• ¼ cup agave nectar
• ¼ cup nondairy milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine the oil, sugar, maple syrup, nondairy milk, and vanilla and mix until smooth. Stir in flour, cocoa powder, and baking soda until mixture forms a moist dough.

To make the filling, mix together all ingredients in a medium bowl until uniform. Divide into 24 balls.

To assemble the cookies, scoop a tablespoon of dough and flatten with your hands to form a round disk. Place a peanut butter ball in the middle and wrap the dough around the filling to form a “pillow.” Place the cookies on a lightly oiled baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Let cookies cool on the cookie sheet for a few minutes before moving to a wire rack to cool completely. Enjoy!

 This recipe was written by Emily Weingarten and originally posted on AnnArbor.com on March 20, 2010.