These vegan peanut butter oatmeal cookies are the perfect choice when you can't decide if you want to make peanut butter or oatmeal cookies! You can make them both. The base recipe is a little salty, a little sweet, crispy around the edges and soft in the middle. Basically, the perfect vegan cookie.

How to make oatmeal peanut butter cookies

This original recipe, from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar calls for canola oil, but one of our readers mentioned she had success with coconut oil. We tried it for ourselves and it was delightful! But really any oil will do, including melted (and slightly cooled) vegan butter.

Aside from that, these are very easy cookies to make. You'll start by mixing together all of your dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and oats. I like to use a dry whisk to get everything mixed together nicely without the hassle of sifting anything.
From there, you'll take a second bowl to mix together the wet ingredients. This is especially important when using something like nut butter that really needs to be incorporated into the other ingredients so you don't end up with globs of peanut butter in your cookie batter. In that second bowl, the wet bowl, your whisk up the oil, peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar, non-dairy milk (I usually use oat milk), flaxseed meal, and vanilla until you have a nice smooth consistency.

In this recipe, the flaxseed meal is working as the egg substitute. If you do...