Vegan Granola Almond Butter Adventure Cookies

Ingredients

• Dates. Double check that they're pitted! Pesky pits often hide in supposedly "pitted" dates, so it's important to check every single one; just cut each open quickly on its way to the food processor.
• Natural, drippy almond butter. This provides much of the fat and moisture in these almond butter cookies. Or, if you have allergies, any nut or seed butter will work fine.
• Maple syrup . I prefer to sweeten these cookies with maple syrup since it's so perfect alongside granola. Honey would work instead, or you can omit it for an entirely fruit-sweetened version.
• Baking powder
• Salt . Only if you used unsalted almond butter.