Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

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 these Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies for over a decade now, and I needed to share this recipe 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 cookies 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?

For real, these cookies come together in under 5 minutes and are made with ingredients you probably {or at least definitely should} have on hand! They 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}!

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

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!

These Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies were the first recipe I thought to make for this month’s Recipe Redux! This month’s challenge was to stir up some of our earliest culinary memories and share them! Honestly, my dad was an amazing chef, but he was raising two little girls solo and, as a result, didn’t really beg for our help in the kitchen. Now that I am a momma of three eager helpers, I understand why…having the littles help {while being way more fun} always takes so much longer! 😉

There was one thing he always let us help with…and that was baking cookies! Especially at Christmas time! I have the best memories of baking and decorating cookies with both of my parents! Since peanut butter and chocolate has always been, and will always be, my favorite combination in the history of ever…it is only natural that I share these Flourless Peanut Butter cookies with you today!

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Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Servings 12 -15 cookies

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.
6. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until bottoms are just barely browned.
7. Let the cookies sit on your 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!

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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