With only 3 ingredients (plus one optional ingredient), these cookies are quick to mix up and require minimal effort and clean up. If you haven’t familiarized yourself with cashew butter yet, we highly recommend it! I asked Justin for what words he’d use to describe peanut butter, so I could describe the similarities between peanut butter and cashew butter. His response was, “Other than the favorite snack for a fat kid?!” I laughed, out loud. Justin might have been a fat kid once, and peanut butter was his favorite, so when I made these while he was away working on our remodel project in Bend, he was a little eager to get home and taste test. We LOVE cashew butter and find it is the most like peanut butter in flavor and texture. It is creamy, nutty, salty and heavenly. It is great for dipping vegetables in, especially carrots and celery. We might even dip plantain chips in it from time to time as well, and more recently I decided to try them as the base for these creamy cashew butter cookies. It was a good move.
You have the option to use honey, coconut sugar or maple sugar. The cookies come out slightly different with the various sweeteners. With the honey, they have a lighter consistency and texture and come out of the oven more golden looking. The honey definitely shines through in appearance and flavor.
You can see the the cookie above on the left is lighter and made with honey, while the one on the right was made with coconut sugar. The cookie with the coconut sugar is a little more dense and crumbly; it is also a little less sweet than the honey sweetened cookie. The cashew butter flavor comes through more definitively when paired with the coconut sugar.
Get your cashew butter out of the pantry, or head on over to Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods to pick some up. Then, make a batch of these creamy cashew butter cookies and let us know what you think by leaving a comment below. Take a picture and tag it on Instagram @realsimplegood so we can check it out!
