Recipes

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

February 28, 2014

Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies — Our gluten-free alternative to the classic actually gives the cookies a boost: subtracting flour highlights their pure peanut butter flavor and adds a wonderfully chewy texture.Matt Taylor-Gross

A lack of flour helps bring out the pure peanut butter flavor of these cookies. They have a wonderful chewy texture and a great balance between sweet and salt.

The lack of flour here brings out pure peanut butter flavor with a chewy texture and a great sweet-salty balance, and renders a naturally gluten-free treat.

Yield: makes 3-4 Dozen Cookies

Ingredients

16 oz. Jif brand creamy peanut butter*
1 cup sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 tsp. baking soda
¹⁄₂ tsp. salt
¹⁄₂ tsp. cinnamon
1 cup demerara sugar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350° with racks in the upper and lower thirds. Line two rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside. In a medium mixing bowl cream together peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar. Beat in eggs, vanilla, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon until thoroughly combined.
Place demerara sugar in a small bowl. Form peanut butter mixture into 2-inch balls and roll in demerara sugar, coating completely. Place balls four inches apart on prepared baking trays and flatten with the tines of a fork in a perpendicular cross-hatch pattern, if desired.
Bake 10–12 minutes until puffed and lightly golden at edges. Allow to cool 10–15 minutes on trays to set before removing.

_ *We strongly recommend Jif brand peanut butter for this recipe; a different brand of peanut butter may produce different results._