Peanut butter cookie battle

Two vegan peanut butter cookie recipes recently went head-to-head in The V Word test kitchen for the unofficial title of official 2016 holiday sweet treat. In this corner, from My California Roots (mycaliforniaroots.com), with nutmeg and Earth Balance and ground flax seed, it’s The Best Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies. It faced off with VegKitchen’s (www.vegkitchen.com) basic, six-ingredient Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies. Both opponents are delicious, and MCR’s symmetrical sugar-rolled cookies are Instagram picture perfect, but take more than hour to make. The VegKitchen cookie clocked in at a half hour to make and called for a whopping 2 cups of peanut butter. They were so soft out of the oven, I thought it may be a total fail, but after cooling, the texture was soft and the flavor vibrant versus MCR’s, which was less peanutty and more crunchy. The winner: VegKitchen’s fast and easy vegan cookies! Because slutty cookies always win.