Baking with Sun Butter

Since peanut butter has been banned from our house because of Lauren's peanut allergy, we keep an alternative on hand - sunflower seed butter.  It has the texture and smell of peanut butter, and has similar (but different) nutty taste.  Ironically, Lauren won't eat it - but Cole loves it; his favorite is sun butter and jelly sandwiches :)  I've been wanting to try using it in place of peanut butter for baking.


Yesterday, Lauren and I tried out this recipe for sun butter cookies, and I was pleasantly surprised with the results. I halved the recipe, and used Earth's Balance in place of the butter, and my egg substitute of 1T flaxseed meal + 3 T water (so Cole could enjoy them too).


They taste very similar to good old-fashioned peanut butter cookies.  I will definitely be making them again.  Even Lauren liked them; I'll convert her to a sun butter-lover yet...


Peanut-butter puffs, is another recipe that I've tried using sun butter as a substitute.  Saw it in an issue of Parenting magazine, and found a copy here.  We made these for a school potluck.


We all found it hard to eat just one.