Vegan Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies

These cookies are dairy-free and gluten-free peanut butter cookies. They are similar to my Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies, but with gluten-free ingredients. They are made with gluten-free ingredients and have a classic peanut butter taste for an allergy-friendly snack or dessert.

Ingredients and Substitutions

All you need is a mixing bowl, a spoon, and a baking sheet with parchment paper. Let’s see the ingredients you need to make this dairy and gluten-free peanut butter cookie.

Natural Peanut Butter – Use a fresh jar with oil on top or almond butter if you want to decrease the saturated fat in the recipe. However, almond butter is often less runny and oily, and the cookies come out on the dry side. All-Purpose Gluten-Free Flour – Make sure it contains xanthan gum! I am using bob’s red mill 1 to 1 baking flour blend. It contains healthy gluten-free flour like rice flour, tapioca flour, sorghum, brown rice flour, and xanthan gum. Coconut Sugar – or unrefined cane sugar or any crystal sugar you love! I recommend coconut sugar to add a lovely caramel flavor to your grain-free peanut butter cookies, but any other crystal sugar provides tasty results. Dairy-Free Milk at Room Temperature – You can use soy milk, unsweetened almond milk, or oat milk. The only trick is to use milk at room temperature. In fact, if your milk is too cold, it will harden the peanut butter, and the dough will be difficult to stir. Vanilla Extract – For flavor.

How To Make Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies

You don’t need a food processor or any fancy kitchen tools to make these peanut butter cookies.

Flavoring Options

There are many ways to customize this recipe and create a range of beautiful peanut butter cookie flavors. You can add the recommended ingredients to the dough if desired:

Vanilla Extract – add 1 teaspoon for a lovely vanilla flavor. Chocolate Chips – add 1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips at the same time you add the flour and combine. Salt – add a pinch of salt, about 1/4 teaspoon. Note that if you are using salted peanut butter, this option is not recommended. Paleo Peanut Butter Cookies – This recipe uses grain-free flour and unrefined sugar. Consequently, it’s a paleo-approved recipe if you replace the peanut butter with sunflower seed butter or almond butter! Most of the time, peanut butter is in the grey zone for paleo eaters, so these are two paleo-friendly options to turn this recipe into paleo cookies.

How Do Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies Taste?

These peanut butter cookies are crunchy, not soft or chewy, and lightly sweet with a strong peanut butter flavor. If you are looking for a soft and chewy healthy peanut butter cookie recipe, you may prefer my oatmeal vegan peanut butter cookie recipe.

Storage Instructions

These healthy vegan peanut butter cookies store very well at room temperature in a sealed jar for up to 1 week. Obviously, this is a vegan recipe, so they are egg-free peanut butter cookies which means they store for longer.