Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

For peanut butter lovers everywhere! These flourless peanut butter cookies feature crackled tops, chewy edges, and soft middles. They're easy to make and freezer-friendly.

Why You'll Love them:

My no flour peanut butter cookies are perfection! They're what I like to call - dangerously good. The kind of cookies that beg you to devour the entire batch.

Which is impressive considering they lack two essential cookie ingredients - flour and butter. These cookies are ALL about the peanut butter. Sorry, not sorry.

This flourless cookie recipe is dairy-free, gluten-free, and undeniably delicious. Everyone loves them, including my 7 year old daughter who doesn't like peanut butter.

Key Ingredients:

• Peanut Butter - I used creamy but my gut says crunchy would be super delicious. I don't recommend natural peanut butter for these.
• Brown Sugar - The brown sugar reacts with the baking soda to make them rise slightly. This is perfect because when you pull them out of the oven, they naturally sink a little, which creates that beautiful crack-age on top and a chewy center.
• Sugar - For sweetness.
• Egg - Binds the cookie together and gives it structure!
• Quick Oats - For just a tiny bit of chew and structure.
• Baking Soda - Rise, baby rise! Cookies need leavening or else they will be TOO dense.
• Kosher Salt - My favorite salt for baking! Once you go kosher you never go back.

How to Make Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies:

These flourless cookies are SUPER simple. Here's what you need to do:

• Beat the peanut butter, sugar, and brown sugar together until the color lightens and it gains some volume, about 2 minutes.
• Add the egg and beat until incorporated.

• Add the dry ingredients and beat until incorporated. The cookie dough should be soft and sticky.
• Scoop the cookie dough onto a parchment lined sheet pan. The cookies spread so give them space! Don't add more than 6 per sheet pan.

• Bake for 11 minutes. The edges should be golden brown and the middles should look slightly underdone.
• Cool for at least 5 to 10 minutes on the sheet pan before you transfer them.

Expert Tips:

• Don't overbake the cookies! Cookies are done when they look slightly underbaked. If the entire cookie looks baked when it comes out of the oven, it will set up and be crispy.
• Let the cookies cool on the sheet pan. If you try to transfer hot cookies, they fall apart. After 10 minutes, they will be set up enough to move them.
• I haven't tested this recipe with natural peanut butter! They may not come out right with natural peanut butter due to the separation of the oil. I used Peter Pan's creamy peanut butter.

Storage & Freezing:

Storage Tips:

• Let the cookies cool completely before you store them!
• Store in a zip-top bag or airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.

Freezing Tips:

I am a huge fan of freezing treats!

You can do this one of two ways:

1. Freeze them after they're baked. Transfer them to a zip-top bag and freeze for up to 3 months. Defrost at room temperature OR in the microwave in 15-second intervals until soft.
2. Freeze them as cookie dough and then bake. Scoop the cookie dough onto a parchment lined plate and freeze. Once the dough balls are frozen, transfer them to a zip-top bag and freeze for up to 3 months. Bake from frozen as directed.

Since I'm an avid baker, freezing cookies is a MUST. If I ate all the treats I baked I'd just morph into a sugar cube. And I hate to waste perfectly good desserts and/or food.

Cookie Variations:

Peanut butter cookies are the perfect cookie for tasty mix-ins. If you're dairy-free or gluten-free, be sure any mix-ins you add are also dairy free/gluten free.

Here are some delicious options:

• Chocolate chips - (Flourless peanut butter chocolate chip cookies!) For a hefty amount of chocolate per cookie add ⅔ cup of chocolate chips and for a moderate amount add ½ cup.
• Butterscotch Chips
• White Chocolate Chips - Peanut butter and white chocolate make a killer combo.
• M & M's
• Dried fruit - Cranberries, cherries, raisins, golden raisins.

More Cookie Recipes:

• Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies
• Oat Flour Peanut Butter Cookies
• Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
• Flourless Oatmeal Cookies