Today on Sugar Spun Run I'll be showing you how to make flourless peanut butter cookies.
Hey Sugar Spun Bakers! It's Sam here and today I have a recipe for
you that's a little bit different from the recipes I typically share. This
peanut butter cookie recipe is super soft and chewy. Super flavorful. I'm sure
you're going to love it, but it uses no flour. It uses no butter. It uses only a
handful of basic pantry staple ingredients. There's no mixer required,
super simple. Now to get started you'll want to pre-heat your oven to 350
degrees Fahrenheit and you are going to need a medium or large size bowl.
Now you're going to need 1 cup of sugar for this recipe. You can use just 1 cup of
granulated sugar, but I like to use a blend, 1/2 granulated sugar and half
light brown sugar for your brown sugar you want to make sure you firmly pack this into your measuring cup.
I also like to add a pinch of salt this is just 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
And my personal preference is to use 1/2 teaspoon of
baking soda in these cookies. It's going to make them spread nicely, give them some
nice little crackles on top, but if you do not have baking soda you can leave it
out. Your cookies are still going to taste good. Now we'll just use a whisk or
spoon to stir these ingredients together because you want to get that baking soda
and that's salt nicely incorporated in with the sugars.
I think you guys know that I am a butter and flour using fiend. So if I love this recipe that doesn't
use either of those ingredients I'm pretty sure you're going to love it too.
So now we can add our remaining ingredients. You are going to need 1 cup
of creamy peanut butter, though I think crunchy peanut butter would probably work just fine as well.
I don't want to waste any of this.
We'll add 1 large egg
And I like to add a teaspoon of vanilla extract for a little depth of flavor. If
you do not have vanilla extract you can leave it out.
And we'll just stir everything together until it is well combined.
You guys don't really even need a video for this recipe but I've committed to making videos for all of my
recipes so I guess you're getting one anyway.
If you want to use an electric hand mixer or a stand mixer for this recipe you absolutely can. I just usually
opt not to because it's so easy just to make it in one single bowl.
So this recipe is based off of one that's been circulating the internet
for a long time. You might have heard of the three ingredient peanut butter
cookie recipe. It just uses granulated sugar, and egg, and peanut butter. Of
course I like to complicate things a little bit but I promise you I think
these extra ingredients are 100% worth it.
Alright so once you have everything mixed up you're going to want to grab a baking sheet. I like to line mine
with parchment paper. It makes cleanup a lot easier, but if you don't have parchment
paper you can just scoop your cookie dough directly onto an ungreased cookie
sheet. I'll be using my 1 and 1/2 tablespoon size cookie scoop. I'm just
going to portion level scoops of this dough onto my baking sheet.
So you're going to flatten these cookies just a little bit before you pop them in the
oven, because the dough is so sticky. I like to just sprinkle the tops with a
little bit of granulated sugar just so my fingers don't stick to the dough.
You could use the tines of a fork to do this, like with classic peanut butter cookies,
and please note that if you did not use baking soda you're going to have to
flatten the cookies a little bit more just because they are a little more
resistant to spreading without the baking soda.
Now these come together so quickly you want to make sure your oven is completely preheated before you
transfer them into your oven. My oven is at 350 degrees Fahrenheit so now I'm
going to bake these for about 10 to 12 minutes. Make sure you do not over bake
these cookies or they will be too dry when you pull your cookies out of the
oven. They should be just barely beginning to turn golden brown around
the edges. As you can see these are just barely
slightly darker on the edges. They should still seem a little bit under baked in
the center, and you're going to want to let them cool completely on the baking
sheet because they're going to be pretty fragile while they're still warm.
And that is how easy it is to make these flourless, butterless, peanut butter
cookies at home. Now if you have the time I generally recommend you stick with my
classic peanut butter cookie, but in a pinch these are amazing. They're
addictive and I really think you're going to love them. They're definitely
worth the time it takes to make it. Alright if you guys try this one out
please let me know what you think. I always love hearing from you. Thank you
so much for watching and I'll see you next time.
So good.