Looking for some toothsome cookies to try with your kids? Make the Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe and create the delicious memories accompanied with the rich flavor and crunch!
Gluten-free Peanut Butter Cookies are one of the best cookies I have tried so far in my kitchen. Making them is so fun and I often engage my little munchkins with me to make the process memorable. These cookies turn out so good that you just can’t resist them. So let’s not wait and rush to the recipe!
What Will You Love About This Recipe
The Gluten-free Peanut Butter Cookies are loaded with a rich flavor of peanut butter with a perfectly chewy texture that sways your taste buds away.
The delicious flavor and perfect sweetness of these cookies make them an exquisite gift for your loved ones.
You can enjoy baking these cookies with your kids and spend some quality time with them. Also, they will like the cookies themselves.
Ingredients
To make Gluten-free Peanut Butter Cookies , you need the ingredients in the following quantities:
- Smooth no-stir peanut butter = 1 ½ cups (385 g)
- Chopped unsalted butter = 4 tbsp
- All purpose Gluten-free flour blend = 1 ½ cups (210 g)
- Xanthan gum = ½ tsp (skip it if your flour blend already has it)
- Baking soda = 1 tsp
- Kosher salt = ¼ tsp
- Granulated sugar = ½ cup
- Packed light brown sugar = ½ cup
- Eggs = 2
- Pure vanilla extract = 1 tsp
- Granulated sugar for sprinkling (optional)
Instructions for Making Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
Following is a detailed description of the method on how to make Gluten-free Peanut Butter Cookies:
Step 1
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Then take rimmed baking sheets of large size and line them with unbleached parchment paper. Put them aside when ready.
Step 2
Take a small saucepan. Put the peanut butter and chopped butter in it and melt them together on medium-low heat. Alternatively, you can also melt the butters in the microwave using a microwave-safe bowl.
Step 3
When the butter mix is smooth and completely melted, stir it once and then place it aside to let it cool for some time.
Step 4
Then take a large bowl and add flour, xanthan gum, baking soda, salt and granulated sugar in it. Whisk them all to make a mixture. After that, add light brown sugar and mix again to combine it in the mixture also. If there are any lumps in the mixture, work on them to break them apart.
Step 5
Now push this mixture to the sides of the bowl to make a well in the center and pour the melted peanut butter mixture in the well. Mix and whisk to make the batter.
Step 6
Take a small bowl and crack open the eggs in it. Beat them well. Then add vanilla extract and combine it with eggs.
Step 7
Pour the egg mix into batter and mix it well. The final dough will be sticky and soft. If you feel like the dough is too soft or sticky, cover it and put it in the refrigerator for 8-10 minutes.
Step 8
Now pull the pieces of dough, approximately 2 tbsp in volume, and make them round by rolling between your palms. Press the rolled balls of dough into cookie shaped disks and arrange them on the baking sheet you prepared in the start.
Step 9
Now take a salad fork and wet its tines. Then place them in the granulated sugar and let it stick to the wet tines. Put the tines on the top of each cookie and press firmly to transfer sugar granules to the cookie dough. Repeat this step by changing the direction of tines, that will make a crosshatch pattern of sugar on the cookies.
Step 10
Bake the cookies in the preheated oven and bake. If you have more than one baking sheet filled with cookies, ready to be baked, bake only one at a time.
Step 11
The time of baking depends on the consistency of cookies you want. If you love very crunchy cookies, bake for 18 minutes until golden. If you love less crunch in your cookies, bake for 15 minutes until pale golden.
Step 12
When baked, take out the baking sheet and let the cookies set for 5 minutes. This step is very important if you don’t want your cookies to crumble and fall apart. Then transfer them to a wire rack to allow them to cool completely. Gluten-free Peanut Butter Cookies are ready. Bon Appetit!
Recipe Tips and Variations
You can try these variations with gluten-free peanut butter cookies:
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies:
Add chocolate chips in the dough before rolling them into cookies. Bake them and enjoy the crunchy rich chocolate flavor with the goodness of gluten-free peanut butter cookies.
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Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1-½ cups Smooth no-stir peanut butter (385 g)
- 4 tbsp Chopped unsalted butter
- 1 ½ cups All purpose Gluten-free flour blend (210 g)
- ½ tsp Xanthan gum (skip it if your flour blend already has it)
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- ¼ tsp Kosher salt
- ½ cup Granulated sugar
- ½ cup Packed light brown sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tsp Pure vanilla extract
- Granulated sugar for sprinkling (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Then take rimmed baking sheets of large size and line them with unbleached parchment paper. Put them aside when ready.
- Take a small saucepan. Put the peanut butter and chopped butter in it and melt them together on medium-low heat. Alternatively, you can also melt the butters in the microwave using a microwave-safe bowl.
- When the butter mix is smooth and completely melted, stir it once and then place it aside to let it cool for some time.
- Then take a large bowl and add flour, xanthan gum, baking soda, salt and granulated sugar in it. Whisk them all to make a mixture. After that, add light brown sugar and mix again to combine it in the mixture also. If there are any lumps in the mixture, work on them to break them apart.
- Now push this mixture to the sides of the bowl to make a well in the center and pour the melted peanut butter mixture in the well. Mix and whisk to make the batter.
- Take a small bowl and crack open the eggs in it. Beat them well. Then add vanilla extract and combine it with eggs.
- Pour the egg mix into batter and mix it well. The final dough will be sticky and soft. If you feel like the dough is too soft or sticky, cover it and put it in the refrigerator for 8-10 minutes.
- Now pull the pieces of dough, approximately 2 tbsp in volume, and make them round by rolling between your palms. Press the rolled balls of dough into cookie shaped disks and arrange them on the baking sheet you prepared in the start.
- Now take a salad fork and wet its tines. Then place them in the granulated sugar and let it stick to the wet tines. Put the tines on the top of each cookie and press firmly to transfer sugar granules to the cookie dough. Repeat this step by changing the direction of tines, that will make a crosshatch pattern of sugar on the cookies.
- Bake the cookies in the preheated oven and bake. If you have more than one baking sheet filled with cookies, ready to be baked, bake only one at a time.
- The time of baking depends on the consistency of cookies you want. If you love very crunchy cookies, bake for 18 minutes until golden. If you love less crunch in your cookies, bake for 15 minutes until pale golden.
- When baked, take out the baking sheet and let the cookies set for 5 minutes. This step is very important if you don’t want your cookies to crumble and fall apart. Then transfer them to a wire rack to allow them to cool completely. Gluten-free Peanut Butter Cookies are ready. Bon Appetit!
