These gluten free peanut butter cookies are soft, chewy, and utterly delicious. They are a flourless peanut butter cookie recipe made with only six ingredients. You won't find a better peanut butter cookie around!
Ingredients
1cupsalted natural peanut butter (see notes)
⅓cupbrown sugar, packed
⅓cupgranulated sugar
2teaspoonsvanilla
1teaspoonbaking soda
1largeegg
Optional: ⅓ cup EACH: chopped peanuts and chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Place the peanut butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar in a large bowl. Use electric beaters to mix them together.
1 cup salted natural peanut butter (see notes), ⅓ cup brown sugar, ⅓ cup granulated sugar
Add the vanilla, baking soda, and egg and beat until the dough comes together. Do not overmix. If using, stir in the peanuts and chocolate chips.
2 teaspoons vanilla, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 large egg, Optional: ⅓ cup EACH: chopped peanuts and chocolate chips
Use a medium cookie scoop (1 1/2 tablespoons) to portion out 18 balls. Divide them between two cookie sheets then press them down gently with your hand.
Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, or until the bottoms just start to brown. Let them cook for 10 minutes on the cook sheets before moving them to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Notes
If you don't have salted peanut butter, add ¼ teaspoon of salt.