Peanut Butter Cookies (Flourless)

I was at a friends house last night, and made these cookies with the kids. This is an incredibly easy cookie recipe, and contains no flour at all…which in my case is a good thing, as lately, I don’t seem to have flour in the house ;)

Enjoy!

1 cup peanut butter, creamy or crunchy
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cups sugar

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a large baking sheet (or use parchment paper, ungreased).

Combine peanut butter, 1 cup of sugar, egg, vanilla and mix well. Roll the dough into balls the size of walnuts (Okay, I don’t do that with this recipe, as the dough is too sticky. I just drop spoonfuls to the baking sheet. )

With a fork dipped in the reserved sugar, press a criss-cross design on each cookie. (The tell-tale sign you are eating a peanut butter cookie is this design).

Bake for 12 minutes, remove from the oven and allow to cool before removing from the baking sheet.

Notes:

This can be made with Splenda just fine.

I do not “roll these into balls” – they are too sticky. I just spoon them onto a banking sheet and flatten with the fork.

I’ve mixed chocolate chips in with these with success as well.

These freeze quite well – for up to.. hmm.. I have no idea, as they don’t stay frozen long ;)

Variations

Add 1 cup of oatmeal

Add 1/3 cup of chopped peanuts