These crispy peanut butter cookies are made without flour, creating a naturally gluten-free treat. Add Peanut Butter M&Ms to enhance the peanut butter flavor.

Naturally Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies

These peanut butter cookies are naturally gluten-free! They have no flour and are made mainly with peanut butter and sugar, with an egg to bind the dough together. There is no butter to cream with sugar, and the dough can be mixed by hand.

Less Fat Peanut Butter Cookies

These cookies look and taste like traditional peanut butter cookies made with flour. They have less fat because they contain no butter! However, I have noticed one difference between these peanut butter cookies and traditional ones: they crumble easily. So hold them over a plate while eating them to keep from dropping crumbs on the floor!

No Need for a Mixer

You can make this recipe without a mixer because there is no butter to beat. When you stir together the sugar and peanut butter, you might think there is no way this dough can be rolled into balls because it will seem too runny. Yet, when you add the rest of the ingredients, the dough stiffens up, just like traditional peanut butter cookie dough with flour and butter.

Roll the Dough into Balls

Divide the dough into 16 equal pieces. Each piece should be approximately 1 ounce (30 grams or 1 1/2 inches wide). You can use a scale to make them the same size or just eyeball them. Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat to keep the cookies from sticking. Place eight cookies on a cookie sheet, separating them evenly. Use your hands to roll the 16 pieces of dough into balls. Then, flatten the balls with the tines of a fork.

Use a Silicone Mat for Peanut Butter Cookies

I prefer using a silicone mat for cookie baking because they are reusable, unlike parchment paper. If your silicone mat has printed circles, they make cookie placement easy.

Easy Clean Up

Cookies are easy to remove from silicone mats, and clean-up is easy. To wash the silicone mat after use, leave it on the baking sheet because the pan is a perfect surface to hold the mat for easy washing. The baked cookie residue washes off easily with soap and water. After rinsing the silicon mat, shake it over the sink, and most water droplets will fall off.

Use the Circles as a Guide to Make Round Cookies

Mats with circles make it easy to make round cookies. Use the printed circles as a guide to help make round cookies the same size. Use a fork to flatten the cookies, staying within the outline.

Add Peanut Butter M&M’s to Peanut Butter Cookies

It is optional to add Peanut Butter M&M’s. They add color and an extra peanut butter taste to these peanut butter cookies. You can use different colors to match a theme, a special occasion, or a holiday.

Prevent M&M’s from Cracking

When you place the M&M’s in the oven to bake with the cookies, they might break from the heat. If you prefer that they stay smooth, do not add them to the cookies before baking. Instead, add them immediately after the cookies come out of the oven while they are still hot and soft. Enjoy!

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