Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies – a simple 5-ingredient recipe that is so delicious that you will have to resist hard not to eat the entire batch. Well, if you do devour every last cookie that’s okay it only makes about 18.
I first published this recipe back in 2014 and the first few following I made these at least once a week. I became a peanut butter cookie addict. These honestly are better than the traditional peanut butter cookies made with flour. They are chewy, crisp on the outside and the peanut butter really shines.
My family loves peanut butter, well my daughter Jersey has a love-hate relationship with it. She won’t eat it plain or on a sandwich but “with sugar” (her words) she’ll eat it. {LOL!}
My favorite easy and to-go-to breakfast is peanut butter and jelly toast with bananas. I sometimes eat this for dinner too. My second favorite peanut butter recipe is my Peanut Butter Hot Fudge Sauce it is to die for! I have to be careful when I make that recipe that there are others around or I may drink the entire batch.
Some other mouthwatering peanut butter {dessert} recipes are my Best Ever Monster Cookies, Dinner, Dishes & Desserts – Peanut Butter Stuffed Brownies, Crazy for Crust – No Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Cream Pie and All Day I Dream About Food’s – Low Carb Peanut Butter Texas Sheet Cake.
Let’s get back to these Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies – they are so easy, simple and scrumptious. You need to make these, so let’s get that on your calendar right now and then you can come back and thank me later. Enjoy friends! XOXO San
Donโt forget to pin this to your favorite Pinterest board for later.
Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup Adams All Natural Peanut Butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon sugar to sprinkle cookies with or ยผ cup sugar, to roll dough in (OPTIONAL)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
- In a medium mixing bowl, stir together all peanut butter, brown sugar, egg (beaten), baking powder and vanilla until well blended. It will look creamy, smooth and glossy. You should not be able to see any egg throughout the batter.
- Using a cookie dough scooper, scoop the dough and then roll it in the ยผ cup of sugar until coated. Place dough on the cookie, you may use a fork at this time to make the traditional hatch pattern on top of the cookie. I didnโt do this. Bake 10-12 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Here is the first photo I took of this recipe back in August 2014.
This May sound strange but have you made this with almond butter or cashew butter?
There are in my oven right now! Smelling wonderful!
Kristen so excited! You will love them! xo San
THESE LOOK SO YUMMY!
yummy, those look great, I love how you added the sugar to the tops!
Thanks. xo San
These look incredible, and to think, they are GF! Great post!
Thanks Dan! San
These sound so delicious! I haven’t made peanut butter cookies in so long, but I might need to change that now!
this looks delicious! I would love to make this for my family.
Thanks! xo San
Ok, if all gluten free things looked this good, I’d totally switch over! LOL! These look so good! I just need a tall glass of cold milk now!
You will love this! xo San
Hey, my friend was just asking me last week for a recipe like this – sending it to her right now. Thanks, what perfect timing!!
I am right there with you… I love peanut butter cookies, and especially a chewy peanut butter cookie!
Oh And They Look So Yummy Will Have To Try Thank You!
Peanut butter cookies of any kind are my favorite. I’ll bet these are great without all that flour!
Peanut Butter cookies are great! Thanks for the recipe!
These sound really great. I bet my boys would gobble them up!
They looks so super yummy! I will have to try this!! My dad is trying gluten-free so he will appreciate a treat. ๐
Thanks! xo San
This looks amazing! I’m started to suspect we may have a gluten issue in our family. Definitely want to try these!
Girl they are the best too! xo San
We bake a lot of gluten free cookies, but I’ve never baked any like these. I tend to stick with the 3 ingredient variety.
Can’t wait for you to try! xo San
Those cookies look delicious! They’ve got to be so soft!
So soft!!! xo San
My daughter loves peanut butter cookies, she will love that she can eat these! I will be making these soon.
That looks so delicious!!! I have to try it.
These sound wonderful, although I’d probably try almond butter as one of the boys shuns peanut products.
These look amazing and are SOOO simple, I love that they are gluten free..thanks for sharing; have to make these for my boys as a treat
So easy and amazing! xo San
MMM Peanut butter cookies. I love that they are gluten free.
And they are the best! xo San
What? No flour? I can go make these RIGHT NOW! This is a cool gluten free recipe, thanks ๐ I have not heard of Adams brand before.
Jen, you will love them! xo San
I can’t tell you how happy I am to see you use Adams All Natural Peanut Butter! It is an obsession in this house! No other PB is allowed, unless it is natural Dark Chocolate peanut butter. lol. Now I have to try this recipe. It looks amazing.
Can’t wait for you to try Amber! xo San
Thank you so much for sharing! I have a few friends that are gluten free, so it is always helpful to have these recipes available!
Can’t wait for you to make it for them! xo San
They look perfect! Gluten-free, huh? You sure make it appealing!
SO amazing! A Must TRY! xo San
These look delicious. I have never tried making gluten free cookies. They sound great.
You must try these, make it your first. xo San
G’day! These look delicious! I could go for one right now!
Cheers! Joanne
Thanks Joanne! xo San
Peanut butter is our #1 staple. These cookies would be gone before they had time to cool off!
Us too! We could live on it. xo San
I love easy to make cookies and peanut butter sounds really good right now. I’ll have to test this recipe with my kiddos.
IT is easy and amazing! Make in like 20 minutes. xo San
These sound fantastic! I’m wishing I had one right now!
Wish I could bring you one, well I can tomorrow. xo San
Those look really good. I love Peanut Butter cookies. Yum!
Thanks girl! xo San
These looks absolutely delicious. ๐ Mmm, the sugar alone got me! Love that they are GF.
Thanks they are the best ever! xo San
Mmmmmm…soft peanut butter cookies…I want them now! Those look fantastic!
My M-I-L suffers from Celiac Disease and has to manage her gluten intake. I’m sending these to her for a sweet treat!
Oh I am so glad she will be able to enjoy this recipe! xo San
That’s a nice way to make gluten-free appealing. I’d love to try these.
Thanks Rosey I hope you do, you will love them. xo San
I LOVE peanut butter and I LOVE soft cookies so great combination to me!
Best combination is so right! xo San
Peanut butter cookies are one of my faves. I love that you were able to keep them chewy and delicious, and gf.
They are the best ever and so easy! xo San
I just made peanut butter cookies for my family yesterday. But they are not gluten free.
Debi try these next time you won’t be disappointed and they are so easy! xo San
I am so going to make these! They look soooo good.
Thx for the recipe.
Erica, they will be a hit! xo San
How delicious! I want to try these out! Yummy!
Those look pretty amazing. We may have to try them.
Thanks Amber! xo San
We love peanut butter but haven’t tried the gluten free peanut butter cookies yet. From the looks of it, it looks delicious and easy to make. A must try.
Super easy, let me know what you think! xo San
Going to try this amazing recipe tonight!
Payal – how was it? Can’t wait to hear back. xo San
Your cookies are GORGEOUS! Pinning. And many thanks for linking to my peanut butter sheet cake!
It looks delicious! But, do you tell me where I can find Adams All Natural Peanut Butter?
These look delicious, but what if you live in an area where Adams peanut butter isn’t available? This is a pet peeve of mine about blog recipes.
You can use any peanut butter you wish.
My cookies are cooling right now! I am too excited to try these. Thank you so much for the great recipe.
I hope you enjoyed them!
These look delicious. I’m planning to add some chocolate chips to mine for the chocoholics of my family. I must admit, it wasn’t easy navigating past all the adverts to find the actual recipe. The sheer number of them made my phone take about 10 minutes to load it properly. But these cookies will be well worth it, I’m sure.