Whole wheat pastry flour, spelt flour, or unbleached all-purpose flour
Baking soda
Fine grain sea salt
Organic, chunky natural peanut butter
Maple syrup
Extra virgin olive oil
Vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350° F degrees. Place racks in the top third.
In a medium mixing bowl combine the flour, baking soda, and salt.
In a separate larger bowl combine the peanut butter, maple syrup, olive oil, and vanilla. Stir until combined.
Pour the flour mixture over the peanut butter mixture and stir until barely combined - still a bit dusty looking.
Let sit for five minutes, give one more quick stir, just a stroke or two.
Now drop by heaping tablespoonfuls onto parchment-lined baking sheets.
Press down on each one gently with the back of a fork. It's a loose batter, so if you're set on doing criss-crosses, go ahead and chill the batter for an hour or so before this step.
Bake for 10, maybe 11 minutes - but don't over bake or they will be dry.
Let cool five minutes and transfer to a cooling rack.