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Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

Are you eating gluten-free or dairy-free but miss your cookies?  These Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies are coming to the rescue, with just 3 ingredients!

A stack of Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies in front of a jar of peanut butter

Sometimes when I’m baking, I enjoy making a complicated recipe, but sometimes I just want sweet and simple.  These Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies are about as simple as you can get. 

Made with just 3 common ingredients that you likely have on hand, you can have a batch of cookies whipped up in just minutes.  But don’t worry that because the are just 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies they’ll be bland– far from it!  They’re packed full of peanut buttery goodness!

Why do peanut butter cookies have fork marks?

I’m sure at some point, we’ve all wondered about the fork marks on peanut butter cookies.  Are they integral to the way the cookies turn out?  Will the cookies be a flop if they don’t have the classic fork mark lattice?

It turns out that using fork marks for peanut butter cookies, including these flourless peanut butter cookies, was popularized by Pillsbury, starting with their 1933 edition of Pillsbury’s Balanced Recipes. 

Because 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies are such a thick dough, if they’re made in a drop cookie they may not cook evenly.  In order to make them cook evenly, you can roll them out and cut out the cookies, but that is quite time-consuming.  Using fork tines to press them flat solves the problem in less time!

If you’re looking for more gluten-free dessert recipes, you’ll want to try out these Granola Bites, Coconut Macaroons, Raspberry Sorbet, Grilled Caramel Apple Crunch, or any of our homemade marshmallow recipes.  We’ve also got a list of Gluten-free blogs who share normal, family-friendly recipes that you’ll want to check out!

If you’re looking for dairy-free dessert recipes, our homemade marshmallows are not only gluten-free, but most are dairy-free as well!  We also have my favorite cake, Chocolate Coffee Depression Cake, or regular Depression Cake, or even Chocolate Sorbet that are all dairy-free.

Yield: 2 Dozen Cookies

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

Are you eating gluten-free or dairy-free but miss your cookies?  These Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies are coming to the rescue, with just 3 ingredients!

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 egg

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350º.
  2. In a large bowl, stir together all ingredients until smooth.
  3. Using an ice cream scoop, scoop cookies onto cookie sheet.
  4. Use a fork to press a criss-cross shape on top each cookie.
  5. Bake for 10-12 minutes, until set.
  6. Cool on a wire rack.
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