Sunflower Butter Cookies
These sunflower butter cookies are made with sunflower butter and toasted sunflower seeds. Designed with a sunflower craft stamp that gives each cookie a beautiful designer sunflower imprint. A gorgeous nut-free alternative to peanut butter cookies that everyone can enjoy.
Sunflower Butter Cookies with Sunflower Seeds
I am already thinking about Christmas cookies. We usually have around 10-12 people at our house each year for Christmas and I make a big cookie platter full of various cookies. It’s always too much and the cookie platter barely gets a dent in it. However, I deliberately place candy bags next to the cookies to encourage everyone to take some home with them. It is a nice way to give something homemade and people can have a treat and enjoy them when they are not so full. And the cookies end up disappearing, which is a good thing.
My mind is always full of ideas, some great and some not so great. But hey, you have to try right? I have all these stamps that I must have bought some time ago and probably had great plans for them that never happened because they are barely or completely unused. As I am looking at this flower stamp, that I think is a sunflower still wrapped in plastic, I get an idea. I thought to myself, I am going to make sunflower cookies. Sunflowers are gorgeous Fall flowers and I never made sunflower cookies before.
Using Craft Stamps to Create a Design
I made the cookie dough, and I was really hoping that I could use the sunflower stamp to imprint the sunflower onto the cookie and it would bake without distorting the stamp imprint. It didn’t, every cookie came out really cute with a clear sunflower imprint. As for the flavor, they taste very similar to peanut butter cookies, but they have a milder nut flavor as opposed the peanut butter cookie. They are also a bit darker in color since the sunflower butter is naturally darker in color. The sunflower seeds add a crunch, and these cookies were a success.
The recipe makes about two and half dozen cookies, so naturally I had to share. Everyone enjoyed them, including my three-year-old niece and 18 month old nephew.
Naturally Nut Free Cookies
I have this recipe for peanut butter cookies that I have been making for years. It is a basic peanut buttery cookie with crunchy peanuts. I like the extra peanut flavor and crunchy texture the peanuts add to the cookies. To make these sunflower cookies, I used the same recipes that I use for my peanut butter cookies. I simply substituted the peanut butter with sunflower seed butter and added toasted unsalted sunflower seeds to the cookie dough. Otherwise, everything was the same.
Sunflower butter and seeds are not nuts and make a great alternative to peanut butter cookies. These tiny little seeds come from the sunflower and sunflowers are not tree nuts. Their seeds do not contain the proteins that tree nuts contain. These tree-nut proteins are what some people are allergic to. People with a nut-free diet can, most often enjoy seeds that are free from tree-nut allergens.
Disclaimer
I am not an expert in allergies and special dietary needs people may have. If you have food allergies and/or special dietary needs, please check with your doctor before consuming anything me or anyone else for that matter post of the internet.
Sunflower Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- All-purpose flour
- Unsalted butter – softened
- Sunflower butter
- White sugar
- Light brown sugar
- Unsalted toasted sunflower seeds
- Egg
- Heavy cream – or regular milk
- Baking soda
- Sea salt
Directions
Pre-heat oven to 375. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Place ¼ cup white sugar into a bowl and set aside.
Whisk flour, baking soda and salt together in a mixing bowl until well combined.
Place unsalted butter, white sugar and brown sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer whisk until soft and fluffy.
Add sunflower butter, egg, heavy cream or milk and vanilla extract. Mix until well combined, scrape sides if necessary.
Slowly add flour mixture a little at a time. Add sunflower seeds and continue mixing until cookie dough is formed.
Roll about a tablespoon of cookie dough into a ball and roll in white sugar. Place on cookie sheet and flatten until cookie is about ¼ inch thick. OPTIONAL: use a brand-new stamp to stamp a sunflower into the cookie. If you don’t have a stamp, create texture with a fork in a crisscross design.
Place cookies about half inch apart on the cookie sheet and bake for about 10-12 minutes. Let cool before serving.
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Sunflower Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup sunflower butter
- ½ cup unsalted butter – softened
- ½ cup white sugar – plus another ¼ cup for dusting cookie dough
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- ¼ cup unsalted toasted sunflower seeds
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream – or regular milk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 375. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Place ¼ cup white sugar into a bowl and set aside.
- Place flour, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl and whisk together until well combined.
- Place unsalted butter, white sugar and brown sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer whisk until soft and fluffy.
- Add sunflower butter, egg, heavy cream or milk and vanilla extract. Mix until well combined, scrape sides if necessary.
- Add flour mixture a little at a time. Add sunflower seeds and continue mixing until cookie dough is formed.
- Roll about a tablespoon of cookie dough into a ball and roll in white sugar. Place on cookie sheet and flatten until cookie is about ¼ inch thick. OPTIONAL: use a brand new stamp to stamp a sunflower into the cookie. If you don’t have a stamp, create texture with a fork in a criss-cross design.
- Place cookies about half inch apart on the cookie sheet and bake for about 10-12 minutes. Let cool before serving.
