Today we want to show you how to use butterfly pea powder to make these pretty blue cookies. They’re crunchy, colorful and delicious – we’re sure you’ll love them so much you’ll be coming back for more!
Butterfly Pea Powder is an all-natural blue powder made from powdered dried butterfly pea flowers.
Also known as the blue pea or Asiatic pigeon pea, the butterfly pea is a bright blue flower native to South and Southeast Asia.
The flowers contain lots of blue pigments called anthocyanins, which are also powerful antioxidants!
Culinary butterfly peas can be found as dried flowers or as a fine blue-violet powder. They should be available at your local Asian grocery store, or you can easily find them online.
Butterfly pea powder is the top choice for these blue cookies because you can easily mix it with the other ingredients.
A teaspoon of the powder is enough to give the cookie dough a bright blue tint, but you can increase or decrease the amount to get a lighter or darker shade of blue. So have fun with it!
For the other ingredients, we used coconut oil and plant milk instead of the classic butter and cow’s milk.
That means these blue cookies are dairy-free, egg-free, and 100% vegan – perfect for everyone!
We also give you the option to make the cookies sugar free with zero calorie erythritol, a safe and natural sweetener that we use in many of our sugar free recipes.
In our recipe, we rolled out the cookie dough thinly for light and ultra-crunchy cookies. Feel free to make them thicker and flavor them with white chocolate chunks for classic soft cookies!
Just don’t overcook them so you don’t affect the final color. Super precise recipe instructions are below, so just follow with no worries!
And if you’re looking for more delicious butterfly pea powder recipes, try this blue chia pudding, butterfly pea cake, and blue latte!