Soft, chewy, bakery-style peanut butter cookies.

These cookies are impossible to stop eating!!!
It?s been over six years since I first shared the recipe for these peanut butter cookies on the blog, and yet it is still one of the most popular recipes I?ve ever posted, with readers writing in pretty much on a daily basis to say how much they love these cookies. One reader even emailed me to say she?d entered the recipe into a contest? and these peanut butter cookies took home first prize!
The cookies are so deliciously light, soft, chewy, and better than any other peanut butter cookie?vegan or not?that I?ve ever tried.

The first time I made the recipe, I remember being shocked it could possibly be vegan. How could there be no eggs or butter"!"! They tasted way too good! I?ll never forget how excited I was the first time I brought these peanut butter cookies to a pool party and heard that people couldn?t stop raving about them. I loved seeing their surprised faces upon hearing the secret that the cookies were vegan. Yes, vegan peanut butter cookies that didn’t taste vegan! (Ten years ago, veganism was much less mainstream than it is today.)
The recipe has another secret: applesauce! It makes these cookies so amazingly melt-in-your-mouth soft!

(View the video, above)
Discerning eyes might notice that although I roll the cookies into seven balls in the video, only six cookies come out of the oven? This may or may not be due to the fact that I ate one of the...