These almond flour peanut butter cookies are super soft, luxurious and packed full of peanut butter goodness! They are gluten free and can also be made with my suggested easy vegan modifications.
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If you are looking for a super soft, delicious and gluten free peanut butter cookie, you have come to the right place! Something about a delicious peanut butter cookie just reminds me of my childhood. Mixing that cookie dough and crisscrossing those delicious cookies with a fork, waiting in anticipating for then to pop out of the oven.
In fact, I really can’t get enough of cookies, especially when they are super soft and chewy! If you love super soft cookies you should definitely check out these Gingerbread Cookies and easy Red Velvet Cookies made with boxed cake mix!
Why this recipe works
- These easy almond flour cookies only takes about 5 minutes to whip up and pop in the oven!
- These cookies are gluten free and can be easily modified for a vegan lifestyle yet they are still phenomenally delicious for those without alternative diet preferences.
- Most of the ingredients required for these gluten free cookies you probably have on hand! Plus, if you have never tried almond flour, I may just convert you. Almond flour is a super flexible flour, great in many different almond flour cookie recipes and packs significant health benefits from the almonds.
What is almond flour?
Almond flour is made from ground almonds and involves blanching the almonds in boiling water to remove the almond skins. The almonds are then ground and sifted into flour.
Almond flour differs from almond meal as almond meal is a courser textured flour made from grinding the almonds with the skin on. You can still use almond meal to make almond flour peanut butter cookies.
Benefits of almond flour
Almond flour is a great alternative to traditional all purpose or wheat flour. It is packed with nutrients such as Vitamin E and magnesium, lower in carbs and works as a delicious and flexible substitute in most recipes.
Certain medical studies have indicated that almonds (almond flour) can benefit cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar!
One of the most popular benefits of almond flour is that is a great gluten free and wheat free flour alternative. And, they make super moist almond flour peanut butter cookies!
Other almond flour cookies and variations
Almond flour works super well in many different cookie recipes. Add some chocolate chips to the recipe to make almond flour peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. For vegan almond flour cookies, you can use my suggested recipe modification using vegan butter and a flax egg. Some of my other favorite almond flour cookies include almond flour oatmeal cookies and almond flour chocolate chip cookies!
Ingredients in this recipe
- Unsalted Butter: If you only have salted butter on hand, you can omit salt from recipe. For a vegan modification, you can substitute vegan butter.
- Peanut Butter: I recommend using creamy, unsalted, unsweetened.
- Sugar: I recommend unprocessed cane sugar. However, you can also use granulated white sugar, brown sugar or coconut sugar.
- Egg: Any type of egg can be used for this recipe. For vegan modification, you can use a flax egg. To make a flax egg, mix 1 tbsp flaxseed meal and 2.5 tbsp water, allow to rest for 5 minutes to thicken.
- Almond Flour: I love the Trader Joe’s blanched almond flour. You can also buy almond flour online and at many grocery stores, Sprouts and Whole Foods.
- Vanilla Extract
- Baking Powder
- Salt
How to make almond flour cookies
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large bowl beat together butter, peanut butter, unprocessed cane sugar, egg and vanilla until thoroughly combined.
- Add salt and baking powder and mix until combined.
- Add almond flour and mix until combined.
- Place oven safe parchment paper on sheet pan.
- Using cookie scoop, portion and evenly space 12 cookies per baking sheet on 2 baking sheets (24 cookies total).
- Using a fork lightly press each cookie 2x per cookie in criss-cross pattern.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes.
- Allow to cool for at 5-10 minutes until transfer to cooling rack.
FAQ and expert tips
Yes. You can use almond meal in this peanut butter cookie recipe. This recipe is quite flexible and the cookies will still turn out well.
Baking is a science so it would certainly depend on the recipe. However, it does not take longer to bake in these peanut butter cookies than would an all purpose flour.
Almond flour is a great flour alternative for those on a keto diet. While you will still need to make sure you stay within your allotted carbohydrates, almond flour is lower in carbs than most other traditional flours.
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Almond Flour Peanut Butter Cookies
Equipment
- 2 baking sheets, oven safe parchment paper
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter, softened (bring to room temperature of microwave 30 seconds)
- ¾ cup creamy peanut butter (unsalted, no sugar)
- 1 cup unrefined cane sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups almond flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large bowl beat together butter, peanut butter, sugar, egg and vanilla until thoroughly combined.
- Add salt and baking powder and mix until combined.
- Add almond flour and mix until combined.
- Place oven safe parchment paper on sheet pan.
- Using cookie scoop, portion and evenly space 12 cookies per baking sheet on 2 baking sheets (24 cookies total).
- Using a fork lightly press each cookie 2x per cookie in criss-cross pattern.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes.
- Allow to cool for at 5-10 minutes until transfer to cooling rack.
Melinda
These cookies are SO soft and delicious. I was looking for almond flour cookies and these were perfect. This recipe is a keeper!
Aubrey
Thank you so much Melinda! I am so happy you enjoyed. 😁