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Only FIVE ingredients for these dense and delicious gluten free peanut butter cookies! They’re flourless, refined sugar free and so easy to make!

Give me a HECK YEAH if you love peanut butter cookies!!! WOOT WOOT. Ok, I mayyy have a bit of a peanut butter problem. Well, that’s if you think finishing one jar of peanut butter every day or two is a problem. In that case maybe we shouldn’t be friends. Be cool, like don’t be all like… uncool…

This is a close up image of a cookie with fork imprints and salt on top. More cookies are in the corners of the image. The cookie sits on a white background.

Aaand Jaryd helps polish off those jars too so it’s not like it’s me ALONE eating all that peanut butter… just most of it. 

I thought to myself, “hey, maybe my peanut butter consumption would be more well received if I put it in things as opposed to just eating it straight from a spoon.” 

This is a side view of a a line of cookies leaning against a glass of milk. The cookies and milk are sitting on a white counter and a white background.

A lot of my first peanut butter cookie attempts were really dry and crumbly. They were great for dipping in milk, but they left your mouth a bit… parched. I was actually kind of bummed because in the process of getting this recipe just right, I’ve used a heck of a lot of peanut butter leaving less for my spoon. 

Ingredients for gluten free peanut butter cookies:

  • eggs
  • coconut sugar
  • natural peanut butter
  • vanilla extract
  • sea salt

How to make refined sugar free peanut butter cookies:

Use an electric mixer to mix together the eggs and coconut sugar. Add the peanut butter, vanilla, and sea salt. Whisk again until the batter turns thick and sticky.

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On a lined baking sheet, use an ice cream scooper (for big cookies) to scoop six mounds per sheet. 

Because this cookie dough is super sticky, I came up with an easy method to get those traditional criss-cross marks on top. Woot woot!! Get a small cup of water and dip your fork into the water. Use the wet fork to make a criss-cross imprint with the back of the fork. 

This is an overhead image of raw peanut butter cookie dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. The cookies have fork imprints and salt sprinkled on top. The baking sheet is on a white and tan background.

I’ve also used my kid’s toy dinosaurs to make dinosaur footprints instead of fork imprints and they were so fun and so well-received 🙂

Bake in the oven for 10 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack. 

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This is an overhead image of peanut butter cookies on a white background. The cookies have fork imprints and are sprinkled with salt on top.

The Best Peanut Butter Cookies

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  • Author: Lindsay Grimes Freedman
  • Prep Time: 5 mins
  • Cook Time: 10 mins
  • Total Time: 15 mins
  • Yield: 12 1x
  • Category: dessert
  • Method: oven
  • Cuisine: cookies
  • Diet: Gluten Free
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Only FIVE ingredients for these dense and delicious gluten free peanut butter cookies! They’re flourless, refined sugar free and so easy to make!

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Ingredients

  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup coconut sugar
  • 1 1/2 cup natural peanut butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
  • extra kosher or sea salt for sprinkling on top

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350F.
  2. Use an electric mixer to mix together the eggs and coconut sugar.
  3. Add the peanut butter, vanilla, and sea salt.
  4. Whisk again until the batter turns thick and sticky.
  5. On a lined baking sheet, use an ice cream scooper (for big cookies) to scoop six mounds onto the baking sheet.
  6. Get a small cup of water and dip a fork into the water.
  7. Use the wet fork to make a criss-cross imprint with the back of the fork.
  8. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack.
  9. Makes 10 cookies.

Notes

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 cookie
  • Calories: 271
  • Sugar: 18.1g
  • Sodium: 55mg
  • Fat: 16.7g
  • Saturated Fat: 3.2g
  • Unsaturated Fat: 0g
  • Trans Fat: 0g
  • Carbohydrates: 22.1g
  • Fiber: 2g
  • Protein: 10.9g
  • Cholesterol: 27mg

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Enjoy!! xo