Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies
A classic turned gluten-free! These Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies are soft, chewy and delicious!
I realized I have a lot of peanut butter recipes, but I don’t have one for just a classic, good ol’ peanut butter cookie. I made these gluten-free but you can just sub regular flour if you like. These cookies are soft and easy to make, plus you just need one bowl and a spoon to mix everything up. Let’s make them!
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Ingredients
Gluten-free Peanut Butter Cookies
These are the simple, pantry staples you’ll need to make these gluten-free peanut butter cookies:
- Peanut butter: I use the more processed type of peanut butter for baking, save the natural stuff for toast, sandwiches and smoothies.
- Sugar: this recipe calls for regular granulated sugar as well as brown sugar. Either dark brown sugar or light brown sugar are fine.
- Eggs: Use room temperature eggs for best results in baked goods.
- Dry ingredients: salt, baking soda and oat flour.
What kind of peanut butter is best for peanut butter cookies?
For most any baking, I use JIF natural. Now I know I just said above not to use the natural kind but the JIF natural is not really natural. It’s still processed, there’s oils and sugar added and it doesn’t separate. I might deviate from this rule for no-bake goods, but any time a baking recipe calls for peanut butter, it’s best to go with the more processed types unless another type is mentioned.
Is peanut butter gluten-free?
Generally, yes. Peanuts and the usual additional peanut butter ingredients are naturally gluten-free foods. If you are concerned, just make sure to check labels as I suppose it’s always possible for a brand to add some sort of sneaky ingredient that contains gluten, but the majority of peanut butters you’ll see on grocery store shelves are certified gluten-free.
How to make
To make these cookies, start by measuring peanut butter and adding it to a large mixing bowl. Add both sugars, oat flour, baking soda and salt and stir until fully combined. Then add the eggs and stir again.
Use a cookie scoop (affiliate link) to place dough by the 1.5 tbsp onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Dip a fork in oat flour to get that classic cross-hatched pattern on your peanut butter cookies.
Bake cookies at 350F for 9-10 minutes and allow to cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
How to make oat flour
This recipe calls for oat flour, but the good news is you don’t necessarily need to go out and buy store-bought.
If you have plain oats in the pantry (quick-cooking or regular are fine), just place them in a blender or food processor and blend until ground to a powder consistency. Voila!
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PrintGluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies
Classic peanut butter cookies made gluten-free. They're soft, chewy and delicious.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 30 cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert, Snack
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 2 cups creamy peanut butter
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup oat flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 eggs (room temperature)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Add peanut butter, both sugars, oat flour, baking soda and salt to a large bowl and mix with a spoon until combined.
- Add the eggs and mix again until fully combined.
- Use a cookie scoop to measure 1.5 tbsp of dough per cookie and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Leave some space as the cookies will spread slightly.
- Dip a fork in extra oat flour to press each cookie to flatten.
- Bake for 10 minutes. Then allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for about 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to fully cool. Top with sea salt if desired.
Notes
Peanut butter: I recommend using regular creamy peanut butter (processed kind).
Oat flour: You can make your own oat flour using plain oats, either quick-cooking or regular oats. Place oats in a blender or food processor and blend until a flour consistency is reached.
