Vegan Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies

These Vegan Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies are made with all-purpose gluten-free flour, no refined sugar, and are oil-free. It’s a healthy cookie recipe high in protein, fiber, and nutrients.

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These cookies are dairy-free and gluten-free peanut butter cookies. They are similar to my Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies, but with gluten-free ingredients. They are made with gluten-free ingredients and have a classic peanut butter taste for an allergy-friendly snack or dessert.

Ingredients and Substitutions

All you need is a mixing bowl, a spoon, and a baking sheet with parchment paper. Let’s see the ingredients you need to make this dairy and gluten-free peanut butter cookie.

• Natural Peanut Butter – Use a fresh jar with oil on top or almond butter if you want to decrease the saturated fat in the recipe. However, almond butter is often less runny and oily, and the cookies come out on the dry side.
• All-Purpose Gluten-Free Flour – Make sure it contains xanthan gum! I am using bob’s red mill 1 to 1 baking flour blend. It contains healthy gluten-free flour like rice flour, tapioca flour, sorghum, brown rice flour, and xanthan gum.
• Coconut Sugar – or unrefined cane sugar or any crystal sugar you love! I recommend coconut sugar to add a lovely caramel flavor to your grain-free peanut butter cookies, but any other crystal sugar provides tasty results.
• Dairy-Free Milk at Room Temperature – You can use soy milk, unsweetened almond milk, or oat milk. The only trick is to use milk at room temperature. In fact, if your milk is too cold, it will harden the peanut butter, and the dough will be difficult to stir.
• Vanilla Extract – For flavor.

How To Make Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies

You don’t need a food processor or any fancy kitchen tools to make these peanut butter cookies.

1. Stir the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients to form a cookie dough. Chilling the dough or using a flax egg is not necessary for this recipe.
2. You can immediately roll the cookie dough balls in your hands.
3. Place each ball onto a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
4. Finally, press each cookie dough ball with a fork to flatten the cookies before baking. Note that these cookies won’t expand in the oven, so it’s crucial to flatten the dough first.
5. Bake the cookies at 350 °F (180 °C) for 12 minutes or until golden and crispy on the side.
6. Let the peanut butter cookies cool down for 10 minutes on the baking sheet before being transferred onto a cooling rack.

Flavoring Options

There are many ways to customize this recipe and create a range of beautiful peanut butter cookie flavors. You can add the recommended ingredients to the dough if desired:

• Vanilla Extract  – add 1 teaspoon for a lovely vanilla flavor.
• Chocolate Chips – add 1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips at the same time you add the flour and combine.
• Salt – add a pinch of salt, about 1/4 teaspoon. Note that if you are using salted peanut butter, this option is not recommended.
• Paleo Peanut Butter Cookies – This recipe uses grain-free flour and unrefined sugar. Consequently, it’s a paleo-approved recipe if you replace the peanut butter with sunflower seed butter or almond butter! Most of the time, peanut butter is in the grey zone for paleo eaters, so these are two paleo-friendly options to turn this recipe into paleo cookies.

How Do Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies Taste?

These peanut butter cookies are crunchy, not soft or chewy, and lightly sweet with a strong peanut butter flavor.

If you are looking for a soft and chewy healthy peanut butter cookie recipe, you may prefer my oatmeal vegan peanut butter cookie recipe.

Storage Instructions

These healthy vegan peanut butter cookies store very well at room temperature in a sealed jar for up to 1 week. Obviously, this is a vegan recipe, so they are egg-free peanut butter cookies which means they store for longer.

More Vegan Peanut Butter Recipes

I have so many healthy peanut butter recipes to try. All made with healthy flours, egg-free, and natural peanut butter:

Chickpea Peanut Butter Cookies

Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

Vegan Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

Almond Flour Peanut Butter Cookies

Vegan Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies

An easy 7-ingredient healthy peanut butter cookie recipe made with gluten-free flour.

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Prep Time: 10 minutes mins

Cook Time: 12 minutes mins

Total Time: 22 minutes mins

Course: Snack

Cuisine: American

Servings: 18 cookies

Calories: 137 kcal

Author: Carine Claudepierre

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Ingredients

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• ▢ 1 cup Peanut Butter (Unsalted) - fresh, runny jar
• ▢ 6 tablespoons Almond Milk
• ▢ 1 cup All-Purpose Gluten-Free Flour - make sure it contains xanthan gum, Bob's red mill is the best
• ▢ 1 cup Coconut Sugar - or white sugar or unrefined cane sugar
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon Salt - optional

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
• In a medium-size mixing bowl, combine fresh, runny peanut butter with almond milk (at room temperature!). Stir until creamy and smooth. If your almond milk is too cold, it may not stir well. Microwave the bowl for 20 seconds to soften the peanut butter if needed.
• Stir in all-purpose gluten-free flour, coconut sugar, vanilla, baking soda, and salt. The dough gets difficult to combine with a spoon so use your hands to form the cookie dough.
• Scoop 2 tablespoons of dough and roll cookie dough into a ball between your hands.
• Place each dough ball onto the prepared baking sheet, leaving 1 thumb space between each ball.
• Repeat until all the dough is formed into balls.
• Press each cookie dough ball 2 times, with the back of a fork, to form a cross on the top of the cookies.
• Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown on the side. The cookies will be soft in the middle when out of the oven and that's normal.
• Cool the cookies down for 10 minutes on the rack, then slide a spatula under each cookie to transfer them one by one onto a cooling rack.
• Cool 1 hour to appreciate their best texture.

Storage

• Store up to 1 week in a sealed cookie jar in the pantry.

Equipment

Baking Sheet

Parchment Paper

Mixing Bowl

Measuring Cups and Spoons

Cooling Rack

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Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 137kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Sodium: 183mg | Potassium: 93mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 7g | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 1mg