Bonus, this recipe takes less than 20 minutes to make for bringing a healthy snack to your table in no time.
What Are Almond Flour Peanut Butter Cookies?
Almond Flour Peanut Butter Cookies are a version of my classic Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies but without all-purpose flour. I am an expert at baking cookies with almond flour and have created many of them, like the famous almond flour shortbread or almond flour lemon cookies. Almond flour cookies are healthier than wheat-based cookies because almond flour is:
Lower in Carbs – it won’t spike your blood sugar level as wheat, and therefore you won’t crave sweets as much. High in Fibers that keep you full. Plant-based Proteins that are also fulfilling. Healthy Fat
But this doesn’t mean that all almond flour cookies are healthy. It also depends on how much sugar, type of sugar, and ingredients are mixed into them.
Why You’ll Love These Cookies
Here, I am sharing healthy peanut butter cookies with almond flour made with no eggs, no dairy, and refined sugar-free. Therefore, these cookies are vegan, gluten-free peanut butter cookies naturally:
Gluten-free Vegan Egg-free Dairy-free Keto-friendly – see the options below.
Ingredients and Substitution
The best part about these peanut butter cookies is that all you need to make them are only five simple pantry ingredients. Plus, even if these are vegan peanut butter cookies, you don’t even need fancy egg replacers like flax egg to make them work.
Natural Peanut Butter – this is the butter with only one ingredient: peanuts (and perhaps salt). Don’t confuse it with peanut butter spreads that hide added sugar and oil. These won’t make the cookies healthy or as suitable in texture. Also, make sure you use a fresh jar of peanut butter to have creamy peanut butter with no dry parts. Feel free to swap for sun butter for a nut-free option or almond butter if you like. Maple Syrup – or any liquid sweetener you love, including brown rice syrup, agave syrup, coconut nectar, or for keto peanut butter cookies with almond flour, use sugar-free Monk fruit syrup. You can’t use granulated sweeteners like brown sugar or coconut sugar in this recipe. The batter wouldn’t hold together. Vanilla Extract – for flavor Salt – skip if your peanut butter is already salted. Blanched Almond Flour – preferably use ultra-fine almond flour. It’s golden in color, light, and ultra-fine in texture. I don’t recommend almond meal because the cookies come out grainy and dark. Baking Powder this is optional, it makes the cookies a little bit lighter, you can skip it, or half the quantity in baking soda.
Making Almond Flour Peanut Butter Cookies
Even your kids can make this cookie dough and enjoy baking some delicious cookies that are good for them.
Baking The Cookies
Cookie Texture
The cookies need cooling for at least 15 to 30 minutes to deliver their best crunchy texture. They harden as they cool down, so be patient.
Storage Instructions
These peanut butter cookies have no eggs nor dairy, and therefore they store very well non-refrigerated. Place the cookies in a cookie jar at room temperature and keep them for up to one week.
Add-Ons
There are so many ways to boost the flavors and texture of these simple 5-ingredients peanut butter cookies. You can add:
1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips – who doesn’t like healthy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies 1/4 cup of crunchy peanuts or simply use natural crunchy peanut butter.
More Almond Flour Cookie Recipes
I have so many almond flour cookie recipes on the blog for you to try. Below are the top recipes we’ve shared recently.
