Gluten-Free Peanut Cookies
Written by Anna Balboa
Edition 14 is the last edition of the 2025-26 academic year. See you next year!
This gluten free recipe will keep everything you love about a traditional cookie while being great for a gluten-free friend without losing any taste or texture!
Whether you need gluten-free treats for dietary reasons, want a quick-and-easy flourless dessert, or have a desire for just peanut butter cookies, make sure you have all your needed ingredients so you can whip up these peanut butter cookies within minutes! Perfect for a quick sweet craving, as an afternoon warm-baked treat, or to share with friends and family, this recipe is a true testament to the deliciousness of simplicity.
Ingredients
½ cup of peanut butter
8 tablespoons of melted butter
⅓ cup of brown sugar
¼ cup of white sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 tablespoon of gluten-free flour
½ teaspoon of cream of tartar
¼ cup of brown sugar (to sprinkle on top)
Optional Toppings:
Chocolate Chips
Peanuts
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 175ºC/ 350ºF
Take a medium-sized bowl, and add your ½ cup of peanut butter and 8 tablespoons of butter together.
Put your bowl with ½ cup of peanut butter and 8 tablespoons of butter and put in the microwave for 30 seconds. Take it out and mix together thoroughly.
Add your brown and white sugar to your bowl and beat together with butter and peanut butter until light and fluffy.
Beat in your egg and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Add in the baking powder, gluten free flour, and cream of tartar and beat together until tension is felt when beating.
Let sit for 5 minutes.
Put ¼ cup of brown sugar in a bowl and roll balls of dough out and drop into the sugar to roll around.
After all of the dough has been rolled into balls and sugar, place on a baking tray.
Put in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
When done, take out of the oven and let cool for 10 minutes.
Enjoy!
This cookie recipe proves that you don’t have to use complicated ingredients or techniques to make something delicious! These gluten-free peanut butter cookies offer rich flavors, a soft texture, and are so easy to prepare. You will likely use this recipe over and over again!
These cookies provide comfort to anyone who eats them. You could share them with friends or enjoy one by yourself with a cup of tea. After you try these cookies, you may completely forget that they were made without gluten.