Nut butter cookies

Looking for an easy vegan cookie recipe I found this one from the Veg Space. I used almond butter and almonds, instead of peanut butter and peanuts, although I had to factor down the amounts as 185g of nut butter is bigger than the entire jar I had! Interestingly, 0.6 of the recipe made 16 perfectly decent cookies, so they came in at 135 calories each not 272 as per the original (12 made from the full recipe).

They were... OK. They tasted fine but spread a LOT more than the ones on the blog, and cooled to a very crunchy texture (harder than ginger nuts) - would benefit from a dunk when eating. They were also quite greasy to handle. Not sure I would make them again when there are so many peanut butter cookie recipes around.

To be fair, it may just be that the almond butter is a thinner consistency (and more oily) than peanut butter. But there is a lot of sugar (more than flour, by weight), which is probably responsible for the hard and crunchy texture, so I'd like to find a less-sweet one that bakes up much softer.