Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies are chewy yet still doughy, cookie perfection! This is the easiest recipe ever! It’s made with only 6 ingredients and ready in 15 minutes! Gluten & dairy free!

Don’t be mad. I’m not trying to make you eat copious amounts of sweets. Ok, maybe I am. Because eating chocolate alone is fun….but eating chocolate with friends is better.

I have been making this Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies recipe for over a decade now, and I needed to share it with you.

I am usually more of a brownie or bar type of person, because gooey is my middle name in the sweet department. But these flourless peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips had me at hello. They are gooey and peanut buttery and filled with little chocolate explosions. PLUS they’re like crazy easy to make and have only 6 ingredients! Are you sold yet?

How to make Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

1. These are EASY flourless peanut butter cookies!

Seriously, one bowl and 15 minutes is all it takes (from start to finish) to make these chewy, doughy, little pillows of delicousness!

You can mix up the batter for these healthy peanut butter cookies in under 5 minutes and they bake for a max of 10 minutes (sometimes less)

2. Warm the peanut butter.

If your peanut butter is too hard to serve (if you store it in the fridge or use a more solid variety), gently warm it in the microwave until it’s soft enough to stir. Be careful not to overhead or you run the risk of cooking the egg when it’s added to the batter!

3. Use a cookie scoop!

The dough for these healthy flourless peanut butter cookies is a little sticky, so I recommend using a cookie scoop to plop them onto the baking pan!

4. Line the Baking Pan with Parchment Paper!

To ensure easy removal, please line the baking pan with parchment paper or grease with cooking spray!

5. Do not over-bake!

These flourless peanut butter cookies may not look totally done when you remove them from the oven. But they will cook more as they cool on the pan before being transferred to a wire rack. So please don’t bake them longer than 10 minutes if you can help it (although be aware that all ovens are different and you need to know how warm/cool/normal yours bakes)!

More great gluten-free cookie recipes!

If you’re looking for more gluten-free cookies, check these out!

• These Paleo Chocolate Cookies are like a brownie in cookie form, a chocolate dream come true!
• Turn these flourless peanut butter cookies into festive gluten-free peanut butter blossoms for Christmas!
• These Almond Butter Blossoms are paleo and vegan!
• These Lofthouse style Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies are irresistibly delicious!
• For a super easy cookie recipe, try these healthy no bake peanut butter cookies!

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies: Ingredients & Substitutions 

These healthy peanut butter cookies are made with ingredients you probably {or at least definitely should} have on hand and contain a fraction of sugar than their regular peanut butter cookie counterparts, AND they are dairy-free & gluten-free {due to the whole no flour thing}!

• Creamy peanut butter. choose your favorite peanut butter variety! Allergic to peanuts? Any nut or seed butter should work well in this recipe!
• Sugar. White or brown sugar both yield delicious results in this recipe!
• Chocolate chips: I went a little crazy and not only filled these cookies with chocolate chips…but also drizzled a healthy dose of melted chocolate on the top. Because more chocolate > less chocolate. Always and forever! However feel free to omit the chips/chocolate for a plain-Jane flourless peanut butter cookie! Or, you could substitute other delicious chips (cinnamon, caramel, butterscotch, etc.)

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Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies are chewy yet still doughy, cookie perfection! This is the easiest recipe ever! It's made with only 6 ingredients and ready in 15 minutes! Gluten & dairy free! 

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword flourless peanut butter cookie recipe, flourless peanut butter cookies, flourless peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips, healthy flourless peanut butter cookies

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Servings 14 cookies

Calories 170.5 kcal

Author Laura

Ingredients

• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• ½ cup granulated sugar*
• 1 egg lightly beaten
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• ¼ tsp sea salt
• ½ cup chocolate chips mini or regular, or chopped chocolate
• Extra chocolate to drizzle.

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2. Mix together peanut butter and sugar.
3. Add egg, vanilla and salt and stir until combined.
4. Mix in chocolate chips.

5. Roll 1 TBS portions of dough into balls and place on baking sheet lined with parchment paper. (or use a cookie scoop to scoop the dough onto the baking sheet)

6. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until bottoms are just barely browned.

7. Let the cookies sit on the pan for 5 minutes before removing them to a wire rack to cool.

8. Enjoy!

Recipe Notes

*I used organic cane sugar. You can use any granulated sugar. Although I tried them with coconut sugar and would not recommend it!

Nutrition Facts

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

Amount Per Serving (1 cookie)

Calories 170.5 Calories from Fat 102

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 11.3g 17%

Saturated Fat 2.3g 12%

Polyunsaturated Fat 3g

Monounsaturated Fat 5.3g

Cholesterol 13.3mg 4%

Sodium 43.6mg 2%

Potassium 27.4mg 1%

Total Carbohydrates 15g 5%

Dietary Fiber 2.1g 8%

Sugars 11.6g

Protein 5.8g 12%

Vitamin A 0.4%

Calcium 0.4%

Iron 1.3%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

We also loved baking regular chocolate chip cookies {of course}! Once I was old enough to make cookie dough myself,  there was no stopping me. I remember, almost weekly, making a batch of cookie dough with my childhood best friend and hiding it in her freezer in the basement {yeah we were reallllll slick. I’m sure her parents had NO idea}! 😉 We’d sneak into the freezer with spoons and eat that cookie dough until it was gone, then make another batch…and never share with our little sisters. Oh to be young again!

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