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Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies
These cookies are perfect when you want something sweet (not too sweet) and satiating! Always curbs my sweet tooth 🙂
Ingredients
- 1 pasture-raised egg
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tbsp melted coconut oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup organic peanut butter, (no added sugar)
- 3/4 cup almond flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- cinnamon
- flakey sea salt (to top)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Whisk together the egg, maple syrup, melted and cooled coconut oil, vanilla extract, and peanut butter.
- Fold in the remaining ingredients, pressing down any clumps of almond flour until smooth.
- Use a cookie scoop (or two spoons) and drop on a parchment paper covered cookie sheet. Use a fork to press down the dough, then turn the fork 90-degrees and press down again. Sprinkle flakey salt over the cookies.
- Bake for 8-12 minutes, or until the edges of the cookies are golden brown.
- Cool for 10 minutes, then enjoy!
Your recent baking including the peanut butter blossoms are way too loaded with sugar- sickly sweet. This kinds of recipe and baked goods please! Perfect amount which is very, very little…cornbread too- way too sweet a recipe. Bring it back around girl!
Hi Hayley! Thank you for the feedback — I have loads of low-sugar recipes and desserts on my site, but made these peanut butter blossoms to be a classic Christmas cookie. Let’s see how I can rework the recipe to provide a low-sugar alternative as well! xx Rachael
I ADORE all of your peanut butter cookie recipes and have made them all countless times. Lately I’ve been making these omitting the flakey salt and puddling globs of organic peanut butter & Italian Bionaturae cane sugar free strawberry preserves atop for an addictive pb & j version. So delicious!
I actually prefer your vegan peanut butter cookie mix you use for your Nutter Butter recipe and have been shaping that ‘dough’ into this cookie shape. I have also made flatter, giant, single serve peanut butter cookies referencing that recipe. For some reason these can turn out tough, dry, and crumbly, with raw centers. The Nutter Butter ones are always so soft, fluffy, and totally addictive. Maple syrup plus peanut butter is heaven!
Be mindful that, as with all baking, the ingredients should all be room temp to have these bake up properly! When they do turn out right, they are beautiful. The telltale sign of an accomplished baker is that there are no discrepancies, every time the cookies should turn out EXACTLY the same and perfect. These do not so you may need to do some work on your skills. Delicious & nutritious however.
Be mindful that, as with all baking, the ingredients should all be room temp to have these bake up properly! When they do turn out right, they are beautiful. The telltale sign of an accomplished baker is that there are no discrepancies, every time the cookies should turn out EXCTLY the same and perfect. These do not so you may need to do some work on your skills. Delicious & nutritions however.
I can’t thank you enough for all of your delicious recipes. I have so much nostalgia wrapped around cookies & treats I loved growing up but absolutely have to eat clean for many chronic health reasons. Your site I always come home to and at last do not feel discouraged because I ‘have’ to eat clean yet love good, real food and slightly sweet (no refined white sugar) desserts so much. Can’t wait for your holiday posts! Thank you, thank you, thank you🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
P.S. Thinking that chuck roast would be dreamy next to your mashed potatoes & broccolini- HA lyrical, I know.
I’m addicted!…however only got 5 or 6 cookies out of one batch. Used Maranatha (organic peanuts & salt only) but mine were a touch dry and crumbly- not that it stopped me from devouring them all or anything;) Any clues on what I may be doing wrong? I flattened the dough with my hands too, as a cookie scoop and pressing down with a fork didn’t seem to do it. Just checking out your pictures and yours look perfect so thought I’d ask!
Love all you do but just a quick request since I’m a clean eating girl with a dirty food mind😉Could you please develop some more desserts & treats that are not solely based on nut butters (and chocolate)..? Need some cookies, cakes, etc, retro-style, so I’m not seduced into jumping the counter at a local boutique bakery because I’m dying for a nostalgic sweet treat! Cut out cookies, sugar cookies, biscotti, even birthday cake, etc- you know the deal from when we were growing up! Whole sleeves of Pepperidge Farms cookies and Entenmann’s everythingggggg. And I’m with you 💯 btw, summertime gas station ice cream treats WERE IT growing up!!🍦😋