Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
This one bowl recipe couldn’t be easier and yields a chewy and delicious peanut butter cookie with chocolate chips that's flour-free!
Servings: 18 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup smooth peanut butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar packed
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch salt
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips or mini chips + more for cookie tops if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Stir together brown sugar, baking soda and salt in medium bowl until combined.
- Microwave cup of peanut butter 20 - 30 seconds or until pourable, to make blending easy using a spatula and without a mixer. Stir peanut butter into sugar mixture until well-blended.
- Add egg and vanilla and mix until incorporated; stir in chocolate chips.
- Scoop the dough by the tablespoonful (or use a cookie scoop) onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Flatten top of cookie slightly. Stud top of cookies with an additional 2 – 3 chocolate chips if desired.
- Place cookie sheet in refrigerator to chill for 30 minutes.
- Remove from refrigerator and bake immediately for 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from the oven when tops are slightly crinkled and before edges begin to brown.
- Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet.
Notes
- Chilling dough for 30 minutes makes the cookies more chewy and less crumbly.
- Alternatively use a fork to make a criss cross pattern to flatten cookie dough before baking if desired.
- Natural peanut butter yields a drier, crumbly cookie so use store bought peanut butter for best results.