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Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

Peanut butter cookies are one of my favorite desserts to keep around the house. That’s probably because I don’t just eat them for dessert; they’re also great as an afternoon snack, crumbled on top of yogurt, right before dinner when you’re feeling snackish—whenever. They’re just the right amount of sweet and nutty to satisfy.

I’m always trying different peanut butter cookies recipes to see how the texture and flavor compares. These are one of my new favorites. Once these cookies cool, they’re the thick and chewy kind. They’re perfect for filling with ice cream and making a cookie sandwich, covering in melted chocolate or filling with a little raspberry jam.

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies Ingredients

I used gluten-free all-purpose flour for these cookies and they came out perfectly. If you use a gluten-free flour I’d recommend a pre-mixed blend for the best consistency. Your cookies should be rollable when all the ingredients are mixed but if the batter is still too thick you can add milk by the Tablespoon until it softens up.

Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 20 minutes

Ingredients(Makes about 18 cookies):

  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour OR 1 cup all-purpose gluten-free flour
  • 3/4 cup cane sugar
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies Baked

Method:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together the oats, flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon well.
  3. In a separate bowl, beat the remaining ingredients until they make a homogenous liquid.
  4. Mix the wet ingredients in with the dry until it forms a uniform dough.
  5. Roll the dough into 1-inch balls and place them on a lined baking tray.
  6. Press down on each ball lightly with the tongs of a fork in a criss-cross pattern on top.
  7. Bake for 18 minutes until the center of the cookies are firm and the outsides are golden.
  8. Remove from the oven and let them cool completely before moving.
  9. Store in a sealed container at room temperature.

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies Stacked

Almond Flour Dessert Recipes

It’s no surprise that I like making desserts with almond flour. It’s probably my favorite gluten-free flour to use. It’s great whether you’re trying to eat grain or gluten-free, has virtually no flavor, and has a perfect consistency in baked goods. You can buy it at most stores nowadays(I usually get the Trader Joe’s brand almond meal) or pulse almonds in a food processor to make your own at home(just be careful not to accidentally make almond butter).

Here are a few of my favorite dessert recipes with almond flour in them. A lot of them are readers’ favorites, too. You can read the comments on any of these recipes to find out what substitutions and success other readers had trying out these recipes.

The Basics:

Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies Baked

Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies: Everyone needs a good chocolate chip recipe they can rely on, right? This is definitely the one if you need to follow a gluten-free or grain-free diet. They come out flavorful and with just the right texture to match “regular” chocolate chip cookies. There are over 140 comments on the recipe page so it’s tried and true as well.

Almond Flour Brownies: Another readers’ favorite are these brownies. They’re also one of my favorites, too. I tend to make them or a variation on them monthly whenever I need a good brownie. They’re also gluten and grain-free, but you would never be able to tell from the taste or texture. They’re just a great, fudgy, chocolaty brownie.

A Little Different:

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Gluten-Free Cookie Dough Truffles: Who doesn’t love eating raw cookie dough? That’s what these are, except covered in chocolate. And it’s all entirely safe to eat, gluten and grain-free. This recipe’s too good not to share. Almond flour is the perfect flour substitute in this one because the flavor is virtually undetectable.

Almond Flour Banana Bread: Banana bread is one of my favorite snacks when it’s around the house, especially with a cup of tea on a rainy day. This banana bread is very moist and reminds me of the kind you get at Starbucks. If you have a few browning bananas laying around the house this is a great go-to.

Almond Flour + Coconut Flour:

Gluten-Free Thin Mints

Gluten-Free Thin Mints: Until the Girl Scouts start making gluten-free cookies, the best kind are the ones you can make in your oven. Almond flour and coconut flour give these a great texture while chocolate and mint give them that perfect flavor; you won’t be able to taste the difference!

Gluten-Free Chocolate Flag Cake Finished

Gluten-Free Flag Cake: I made this last year and think I might have to make it again. If you’re looking for a good, basic chocolate cake recipe without the grains or gluten this is simple enough for anyone to whip up. Personally I like this with a vanilla cream cheese frosting but you can let your imagination go wild.

Oat Bran Raisin Cookies

Oat Bran Raisin Cookies

I love that every season there seems to be new gluten-free products on the shelves. I thought I was done with oat bran years ago since gluten-free oats are hard enough on their own to find, but wouldn’t you know Bob’s Red Mill now makes those, too? I was excited to bake with them because oat bran has a finer texture in baked goods not to mention a higher fiber and nutrient content.

These cookies are just like oatmeal raisin cookies except using oat bran for a different crunch. They aren’t your soft, pillowy oatmeal cookies; since this recipe uses oil and has very little moisture in it, the cookies come out crunchy and chewy. They’re perfect for a dunk in milk or almond milk.

Oat Bran Raisin Cookies Oat Bran

If you don’t have oat bran on hand, you can make oat flour instead by pulsing rolled oats in a food processor or blender. The nutrient contest isn’t quite the same but the textures are very similar. You can add in chocolate chips or any other type of mix-in but make sure not to add too many since they can make it difficult for the dough to stick together.

Oat Bran Raisin Cookies

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 15 minutes

Ingredients(Makes about 18 cookies):

  • 1 cup oat-bran
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour(I used gluten-free all-purpose flour)
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 6 Tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1/3 cup raisins

Oat Bran Raisin Cookies Cooked

Method:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together the oat bran, flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.
  3. Beat in the egg and oil until the mixture forms a sticky dough.
  4. Add in the raisins and fold until they’re incorporated.
  5. Roll the dough into roughly 1-inch balls and place them on a non-stick baking tray flattening them slightly.
  6. Bake for 14-16 minutes until the edges turn golden. Remove them from the oven and let them cool for 10-15 minutes before moving to prevent them from crumbling.
  7. Store at room temperature in a sealed container when not eating.

Oat Bran Raisin Cookies Yield

 

White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

I find it very easy to get addicted to certain ingredients. Lately for me it’s been white chocolate baking chunks from Whole Foods. I try not to eat them straight out of the bag and actually make recipes with them, but these kind of things happen.

To finish off the bag and keep myself from eating them with spoonfuls of Nutella(highly recommended by the way) I made these cookies with the last 1/2 cup. I didn’t know white chocolate and peanut butter went so well together until I tried Peanut Butter & Co.’s White Chocolate Wonderful and they opened my eyes. These cookies have all the goodness of nutty peanut butter with creamy white chocolate—what more could you ask for?

White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies Raw

This is basically your grandmother’s easy peanut butter cookie recipe with white chocolate mixed in. You could use white chocolate peanut butter or some earthy spices to mix it up but I think they’re just as addictive when they’re done simple.

White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 12 minutes

Ingredient(Makes a dozen cookies):

  • 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup + 2 Tablespoons sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 cup white chocolate chips

White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies Dough

Method:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a large bowl, beat together the peanut butter, sugar, egg, vanilla and baking soda.
  3. Fold in the white chocolate chips evenly.
  4. Roll the dough into 1-ounce balls. Lightly press down on the balls with a fork in a criss-cross pattern to flatten it to about 3/4-inch thickness.
  5. Bake for 12-14 minutes until the tops are firm to the touch and the edges begin to brown.
  6. Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool before moving to a separate plate.

Gluten-Free Thin Mints & Other Girl Scout Cookies

Gluten-Free Thin Mints

Needless to say Girl Scout cookie season is a lot less exciting when you can’t have gluten. You feel a little bit guilty walking past the 10-year old girls trying to get you to overpay for charity while secretly wishing you could have some Thin Mints or Samoas.

Last year I made these gluten-free thin mints. After the page started being active again thanks to plenty of google searches for people looking for the same, I remembered to make them again this year. I’m not sure why it took me a whole year to make this recipe again because these are cookies I’d gladly eat any month or season.

Gluten-Free Thin Mints Stack

The recipe(found here) is made with coconut flour and almond flour, so it’s grain-free as well as gluten-free. It’s not quite paleo as some commenters have pointed out because of the sugar content. But if that’s not your thing and you’re just looking for a sweet treat then this is easily for you.

Here are some other Gluten-Free Girl Scout cookie recipes from around the web I’ve been eyeing:

Your move, Girl Scouts

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bark

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bark

Whoever decided Cookies N’ Cream would get so much attention? There are Cookies N’ Cream ice creams, milk shakes, chocolate bars, granola bars—everything–Cookies N’ Cream.

I’m a bigger fan of the classic chocolate chip cookie; there’s nothing that you shouldn’t be able to do with a chocolate chip cookie. With chocolate, brown sugar, butter, and vanilla, there aren’t any other flavors you could ask for.

This bark, like most others, is simple to make but always a huge hit. Anyone who likes the taste of a chocolate chip cookie won’t be able to pass it up.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bark Cookies

For this recipe you don’t want to use your grandmother’s fresh-out-of-the-oven chocolate chip cookies but instead something from the store shelf like Chips Ahoy! or Lucy’s that’s crunchy and won’t get stale in the bark.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bark

Prep time: 15 minutes

Cook time: 0 minutes

Ingredients(Makes 16-20 servings):

  • 8.5 ounces white chocolate OR 1 cup white chocolate chips
  • 1/4 cup chocolate chips
  • 5 chocolate chip cookies, broken into pieces

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bark Yield

Method:

  1. Melt the white chocolate chips in a microwave or over a double boiler.
  2. Spread the melted chocolate out onto non-stick wax paper in a thin layer.
  3. Spread the broken chocolate chip cookie pieces out on top and then the chocolate chips so that they evenly cover the bark.
  4. Lightly press the toppings into the bark.
  5. Refrigerate or freeze the bark for 20-30 minutes until it has solidified. Break the bark into equal-sized pieces to serve.
  6. Keep refrigerated when not eating.

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Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookie Recipes

I’m starting to get the impression that I’ll be craving cookies all December. They’re the perfect dessert to end a meal because they aren’t too decadent or messy but still delicious. I’m always drawn to peanut butter cookies; then again I’m drawn to peanut butter anything.

These are a few of my favorite peanut butter cookies I’ve made before that are tried and true. I’ll be doing a lot of baking over the holidays and I’m sure I’ll need one or a few of these recipes. I hope other people can enjoy them, too.

Chewy-Peanut-Butter-Cookies-Gluten-Free

Chewy Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies. I only made these for the first time 2 weeks ago but I’m hooked. The combination of texture and flavor is perfect for a peanut butter cookie. These are the good ol’-fashioned kind.

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Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies. If anything makes peanut butter cookies better it’s undoubtedly chocolate. So why not use chocolate peanut butter? A perfect mix. 

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Quadruple Peanut Cookies. You have to know a recipe’s going to be good when it involves Reese’s Pieces and peanut butter chips.

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Macaroons. I haven’t made these in over a year which is a crying shame. They’re probably one of the easiest to make for beginning bakers and they’re vegan and gluten-free.

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Egg-Free Peanut Butter Cookies. These are certainly less hearty than the other cookies and more airy. They’re the best for making sandwich cookies with a thick layer of peanut butter buttercream in the middle.

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Maple Almond Butter Sandwich Cookies

Maple Almond Butter Sandwich Cookies

Sandwich Cookies are so much fun. They’re much better than any old cookie; you get two cookies plus a filling. What’s not to love?

My favorite sandwich cookies were always the ones shaped like a maple leaf with a maple crème filling. Sure, they probably were loaded with trans fat and gave people heart attacks but it was the 90s and no one knew about any of that yet. These remind me of those but very much grown up. The cinnamon and spice and salt enhance the sweetness of the maple syrup and the nuttiness of the almond butter and knock it out of the park.

Maple Almond Butter Sandwich Cookies Cinnamon

If you want to skip making your own cookies, use a store-bought gingersnap cookie for the base to compliment the filling best.

Maple Almond Butter Sandwich Cookies

Prep time: 5 minutes

Cook time 0 minutes

Ingredients(Makes 6 sandwich cookies):

  • 12 spiced almond butter cookies
  • 6 Tablespoons almond butter
  • 3 1/2 Tablespoons butter, room temperature
  • Scant 1/4 cup maple syrup
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

Maple Almond Butter Sandwich Cookies Filling

Method:

  1. Lay half of the cookies out bottom-side-up.
  2. In a large bowl, beat together the almond butter, butter, maple syrup, cinnamon and salt until it’s smooth and homogenous.
  3. Put about 1 1/2 Tablespoons of filling on top of each cookie.
  4. Take another cookie and place it bottom-side-down on top of the filling.
  5. Store at room temperature until ready to eat.

Maple Almond Butter Sandwich Cookies Wide

See? Much better than a cookie.

Spiced Almond Butter Cookies

spiced almond butter cookies

I love almond butter. I like it even more than peanut butter most of the time. But I don’t buy it nearly as often because it’s over twice the price. That just isn’t fair, is it? These cookies were worth the splurge.

The nice thing about almond butter is that the flavor is simple and delicious. It’s easy to dress up and make fancier with extracts and spices. These taste incredibly like a gingersnap and have a very similar texture, too. It’s hard to believe the ingredients are so simple and naturally gluten-free. 

spiced almond butter cookies spieces

If you don’t have pumpkin pie spice handy, just use about a teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/2 a teaspoon of nutmeg.

Spiced Almond Butter Cookies

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 12-14 minutes

Ingredients(Makes 12 cookies):

  • 1 cup almond butter
  • 3/4 cup cane sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

spiced almond butter cookies serving

Method:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a bowl, mix together all of the ingredients until it forms a dough.
  3. Line a baking tray with a non-stick surface. Make the dough into 1-inch balls and place them on the tray, flattening them with a fork in a criss-cross pattern.
  4. Bake for 12-14 minutes until the edges begin to brown.
  5. Remove from the oven and let them cool before transferring them to a serving plate.

spiced almond butter cookies yield

I promise you these taste way too good to be made with 4 ingredients.