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 tablespoon flaxseed meal and 2.5 tablespoon 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 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups almond flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon 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.
Elaine
Aubrey I posted earlier today but have a quick question. How best to store these cookies and how long will they be good. Thank you.
Aubrey
Hey Elaine! They usually only make it a couple days in my house before they are gobbled up. 😉 You can store them in an air tight container at room temp for a couple days and if you pop them in the refrigerator, I would say a week. Hope that helps!
Elaine
Thanks for the info Aubrey
Elaine
Delicious Aubrey. I used 2-3 tablespoons of honey since I can’t have refined sugar. Also I put 5 carobs on the top and it’s all delicious.
You said they are 170 calories. Is that per cookie?
Thanks for the great recipe!
Elaine
Aubrey
Thanks for your kind words Elaine! Yes, per cookie. So happy you enjoyed. 🙂
Christina
These are really yummy! I adjusted them slightly to make them dairy-free, sugar-free, and Keto friendly. I used coconut oil instead of butter and added some unsweetened shredded coconut. I didn’t add the baking powder or the sugar. I baked the cookies for 12 minutes and they turned out perfect. 😊
Aubrey
Love this! Thanks Christina!
Nancy
Delicious!!
Chris
Thank you for this recipe! These were really easy to make and delicious. I didn’t have full 2 cups of almond flour, so I added some oats. They still turned out well and added some crunchy texture. I also added some dark chocolate chips to half the batch and those were amazing!!!
Michael C.
Awesome!!!
Bill M
I threw caution to the wind a bit and used a mix of cashew butter, peanut butter and a couple of tablespoons of tahini here, and probably wound up with a bit more than the 1/2 cup of nut butter called for. These came out AMAZING. I love the texture. My oven is unpredictable, but both batches needed a few more minutes than called for here. I took them out right when a few of them were browning.
Aubrey
Thanks Bill! So happy you enjoyed and great suggestions! Thank you!
Kathy C
Your recipe is the first I tried using almond flour and my cookies turned our nice and moist, and my husband gave them a thumbs up! Thank you for posting this recipe!
Aubrey
Thanks Kathy! So happy you and your husband enjoyed! Almond flour is a great ingredient and I am happy this was a good introduction. 😁
Deandra
I have been looking for a good and easy recipe for almond flour cookies. This recipe was perfect! The cookies were easy to make and turned out perfectly soft and flavorful. This recipe is a keeper.
Aubrey
Thank you! I find that almond flour is a great ingredient that works really well in cookies. So happy you enjoyed!
Anna
These almond flour peanut butter cookies are delicious! So easy to make and super soft.
Aubrey
Thank you Anna!!! So happy to hear!
Courtney
i’ve been trying to find healthier recipes for my family so i substituted the butter with coconut oil at i used honey as a sweetener (about 2-3 tablespoons) and they turned out really good, a little bit crumbly but still moist and the coconut oil didn’t effect the shape of the cookies they look pretty much the same as the picture but has a bit of a coconut taste but it compliments the peanut taste really well
Aubrey
Thank you Courtney! I am so happy you enjoyed and thank you for the wonderful suggestions!
Melissa
Very good! I made them today. Nice and chewy. Thank you
Aubrey
I am so happy you enjoyed! 😁
Maddy
I was looking for a good almond flour peanut butter cookie recipe for my friend who is gluten free. These almond flour cookies were super soft and delicious. This recipe is a keeper. Thank you!
Aubrey
Thanks Maddy! I love cooking with almond flour and peanut butter cookies are one of my favs! So happy you enjoyed.
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. 😁