Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies (2024)

These flourless peanut butter cookies are soft, chewy and big on peanut butter. It’s an easy peanut butter cookie recipe that only requires a few simple ingredients – so you likely have everything in your pantry already. Quick, easy & perfect for true peanut butter lovers!

These easy, flourless peanut butter cookies are extra soft, full of peanut butter, and naturally gluten-free. Perhaps best of all – you only need 5 ingredients to make them and they’re super quick and easy. In fact – I’d wager that they’re the easiest, most delicious peanut butter cookie recipe.

Because these peanut butter cookies are completely flourless – they have this deliciously soft texture. They’re chewy, a little gooey, and stay seriously soft for days. (Although I can’t say they’ll last that long). By removing the flour – you end up with rich peanut butter flavor that gets to shine all on its own. Now – I’m not claiming they’re health food or anything because we’re skipping out on the flour… but they are gluten-free.

How to Make Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

You’ll also fall in love with how easy these cookies are to make. They come together in about 5 minutes – and all the ingredients are likely things you already have in your cupboard. Late night craving???? Winter storm????? I’ve got you covered.

The ingredients for these flourless peanut butter cookies are easy:

• 1 cup smooth peanut butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips.

Add the peanut butter, white sugar, egg & baking soda to a large bowl and stir together until smooth. You could also use an electric mixer if you prefer, but I find that it isn’t necessary. Then stir in the chocolate chips.

Form the dough into balls about 1 tablespoon in size – I typically get about 20 cookies – and bake on a lined cookie sheet for 7-9 minutes or until the tops look set.

Can you make peanut butter cookies with natural peanut butter? I don’t recommend it because natural peanut butter can be oily. If you decide to try, make sureto stir it a lot first.

Can I use chunky peanut butter instead? Yup – you bet!

Can I make these with almond butter or other kinds of nut butter? I’ve tried these with almond butter and they were delicious. I haven’t tried them with other types of nut butter, but I think they’d be fine as long as the consistency is similar to peanut butter. Just make sure to stir the nut butter a lot before using if it’s the type that can separate.

My peanut butter cookies turned out flat – what happened?My guess would be that either:

• there wasn’t enough sugar
• the egg was too large (ie an extra large egg instead of a large egg)
• the peanut butter started separating (this can happen if you use natural peanut butter)
• or the oven wasn’t hot enough.

To avoid peanut butter cookies getting too flat – pop the cookies in the fridge for 20 minutes before baking.

These flourless peanut butter cookies are ridiculously simple to make and oh so delicious. Whether you need a gluten-free cookie recipe or not – these are deliciously peanut buttery-y and super easy to make. 5 ingredients, no electric mixer, and good-old fashioned peanut butter.