MY FAVORITE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES {Gluten Free/Flourless}

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When I first started blogging a bit over a year ago, I wrote and filmed a short post about my favorite peanut butter cookies. At the beginning of summer, I gave my blog a bit of a facelift and moved it to a new platform (it was a bit more work than I'd hope but I think it was worth it in the end). Unfortunately, a lot of my recipe posts didn't migrate over with all the other posts. So here is a repost of my original blog post and a cookie recipe. Enjoy!

 
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PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

When I moved to Portland about 8 years ago—gosh time really does fly—I worked as an editorial intern for Portland Monthly Magazine. I loved it. Not only did I get to utilize my journalism degree for an award-winning magazine, but I also got access to the archives and was able to spend time doing recipe research if things were a little slow. I ended up walking away from the internship with a large stack of recipes, handwritten on little slips of papers I'd stick into my day planner.

One of these was a really simple peanut butter recipe. I'd done experimenting with gluten-free baking in the past and was really disappointed how all my creations always seemed to take like garbanzo beans. So I tend to shy away from most gluten-free recipes. Nevertheless, this one caught my eye because it was flour-less instead of using an alternative flour. I fell in love with it after the first batch.  Unfortunately, I can't remember where I saw this recipe first (today it still lives hand-written as a side note in an old day planner I ended up keeping cause I wrote so many recipes in it.) SO as much as I'd like to give credit to the original recipe creator, I honestly have no idea who it is.

The recipe goes as follows. Also, check out the video I made on how to bake them <3

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PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Ingredients: 

  • 1 cup white sugar

  • 1 cup peanut butter (I use an all-natural creamy)

  • 1 egg

  • 1 teaspoon baking powder

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Mix all ingredients in a large mixing bowl. The dough should look slightly wet. Roll dough into balls, about an inch in diameter. Place on a cookie sheet (lined with parchment if you're worried about cookies sticking) slightly flattening them as you place them down. Leave room for them to expand (3/4 to 1 inch). Use a fork to create the traditional checkered pattern on the top of the cookies.

Bake for  8-10 minutes, or until they are set and browning on the side and along the bottom. Cookies sometimes seem just slightly undercooked when you first take them out of the oven but continue cooking as the cool. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gCzFPXOhrM

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