Sunflower Seed Butter Cookies

"I got this recipe from a Trader Joe's publication, May 2008."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
10
Yields:
2-3 dozen
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 375.
  • Stir together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
  • In a separate bowl, beat together butter, Sunflower Seed Butter and both sugars until fluffy.
  • Beat in eggs and vanilla.
  • Gradually beat in flour mixture.
  • Wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate until well chilled, about 2-4 hours.
  • Roll tablespoonfuls of dough into balls with your hands. Place about 3 inches apart on ugreased baking sheets. Dip a fork in flour and press onto tops of cookies, making a criss-cross pattern on each cookie.
  • Bake for about 10 minutes, or until golden brown. Careful not to burn the bottoms. Cool on baking sheets for a minute, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely before eating.

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Reviews

  1. These were pretty good! I used a 1/4 cup of coconut sugar, agave instead of granulated sugar and earth balance butter and they came out like tender drop cookies. They held the shape of my tablespoon dropper. They didn't flatten out at all, and that's just how I like them :).
     
  2. yummy, buttery goodness! i only baked 5 cookies because the batter tasted so good i knew i would eat them all!
     
  3. At the risk of having my American citizenship revoked, I think I like these better than peanut butter cookies. I've been looking for recipes using sunflower seed butter since I bought a jar of it at Trader Joe's last year. A few raw sunflower seeds were sprinkled on the cookies before baking. I'll be baking a batch of these again very soon! PS I skipped the dough chilling part and used a cookie scoop. No problem! Thanks for posting the recipe.
     
  4. yum, yum, yum!! Made these cookies with kisses on them soooo good.
     
  5. These are so yummy! Someone mentioned the cookies turning green in the center - that's because sunflower seeds have a lot of chlorogenic acid. If you don't like the green color, you can add lemon juice or reduce the baking soda/powder. Green or not, I love these cookies!
     
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Tweaks

  1. There is a natural chemical in sunflower seeds that, when exposed to certain baking conditions and baking soda turns it green when it's fully cooled. It's not harmful, but it can be scary if you are unaware.
     

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