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Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies Recipe

March 20, 2014 by Jeanette 12 Comments

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Serve these Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies hot out of the oven for a special treat.
Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies © Jeanette's Healthy Living

Fresh baked cookies are a real treat in our house. There’s nothing quite like the smell of homemade cookies baking in the oven, and it’s almost impossible to resist a fresh baked cookie hot out of the oven. My kids are really spoiled when it comes to cookies. I don’t bake cookies very often, but when I do, my boys only like them fresh. If they’ve been sitting around a few days, they won’t touch them.

Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies © Jeanette's Healthy Living

Funny, my youngest son said he doesn’t like packaged cookies because they just don’t taste good. Being the youngest in the family, he didn’t grow up with packaged cookies unlike my older boys. I’m so glad he knows the difference. I remember explaining to my other boys when they were younger that the cookies that come in packages stay soft only because they’re made with preservatives. There’s just no way for a fresh cookie to stay soft more than a few days.

One of the tricks I’ve come up with to make sure no cookies go to waste is to freeze pre-shaped cookie dough balls and only bake a few at a time when my kids have friends over or when I want to surprise them with a sweet treat.

Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies © Jeanette's Healthy Living

Recently, I found some peanut butter chips at Whole Foods that reminded me of the chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips I used to make for my kids. However, the ingredients were a bit healthier than the ones you typically find at the supermarket, which often contain partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (an unhealthy fat), reduced mineral whey (whey that’s been treated to remove some of the minerals), corn syrup solids and artificial flavor (a.k.a. lots of chemicals). The peanut butter chips I bought were made with evaporated cane juice, palm kernel oil, nonfat dry milk, and whole milk.

Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies © Jeanette's Healthy Living

These Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies are made healthier and gluten-free with oat flour in place of white flour, organic sugars (which are still processed but less processed than regular white and brown sugar), and substituting yogurt for some of the butter.

Today, I’m participating in Food Network’s Comfort Food Feast where Peanut Butter is being featured. Please be sure to check out what my fellow foodie friends made:

Domesticate Me: Peanut Butter and Banana Overnight Oats (Vegan and Gluten-Free)
The Heritage Cook: Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies (Gluten-Free)
Virtually Homemade: Mini Nutter Butter Baked Donuts with Chocolate Ganache
Weelicious: World’s Greatest Peanut Butter and Jelly 
In Jennie’s Kitchen: Peanut Butter & Chocolate Cinnamon Buns
Red or Green: Peanut Butter and Ginger Cookies
Napa Farmhouse 1885: Thai Red Curry and Peanut Vegetable Slaw
Devour: Most-Comforting Peanut Butter Desserts
Taste With The Eyes: Korean Buckwheat Noodles, Peanut Sauce and Banana
Sensitive Epicure: Peanut Butter Oat Bars (Gluten-Free)
Feed Me Phoebe: Thia Peanut Chia Pudding
FN Dish: 10 Peanut Butter Pairings

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Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

I like to freeze the formed cookies before baking them by placing the entire baking sheet in the freezer, then storing the frozen cookies in a Ziploc bag. That way, I can pull out a few cookies and bake them in the toaster oven for my kids and they're fresh.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 27 cookies

Ingredients

  • 5 tablespoons organic butter
  • 1/3 cup organic low-fat yogurt
  • 1/2 cup organic brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup organic cane sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup oat flour I finely ground quick cooking oats in my food processor
  • 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup peanut butter chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or Silpat liner.
  2. Cream together butter, yogurt, brown sugar and cane sugar in a large bowl. Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Combine oat flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt; stir into creamed mixture. Fold in peanut butter chips. Drop onto lined baking sheets by heaping teaspoons. Bake 8-10 minutes until set. Cool on wire rack.

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Comments

  1. Liz @ The Lemon Bowl says

    March 20, 2014 at 4:49 pm

    These look to die for!! I love anything peanut butter and chocolate!

    Reply
    • Jeanette says

      March 20, 2014 at 5:43 pm

      Thanks Liz – peanut butter and chocolate are one of my favorite combinations too!

      Reply
  2. Stacy | Wicked Good Kitchen says

    March 20, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    Oh, my goodness! These gluten free cookies look scrumptious, Jeanette! I just adore chocolate and peanut butter together. Thank you for sharing and have a fabulous weekend, my friend. Pinned!

    Reply
  3. Jane, The Heritage Cook says

    March 21, 2014 at 12:10 am

    I love that our minds were so in synch with today’s topic! I cannot wait to make these fabulous cookies Jeanette!!

    Reply
  4. Joanne says

    March 21, 2014 at 6:47 am

    i see those chips every time I go to whole foods and debate buying them! Now I know they’re a MUST because I want to make these cookies! And ewwww to storebought cookies. That’s all I have to say about THOSE.

    Reply
  5. Kelly says

    March 21, 2014 at 7:01 am

    Love peanut butter and chocolate cookies and these look delicious! I can never resist a fresh cookie straight out of the oven too – I’ll bet these smelled amazing while baking up!

    Reply
  6. alison @ Ingredients, Inc. says

    March 24, 2014 at 8:50 am

    i am bookmarking this! Pinned

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  7. Marly says

    March 24, 2014 at 9:02 pm

    Too beautiful to eat! Just kidding! 😉

    Reply
  8. Sylvie | Gourmande in the Kitchen says

    March 24, 2014 at 10:21 pm

    Good idea to keep some pre-made dough in the freezer, that way a fresh baked cookie is never far off!

    Reply
    • Jeanette says

      March 25, 2014 at 8:05 am

      Thanks Sylvie!

      Reply
  9. Shaina says

    March 25, 2014 at 4:25 pm

    I’m a fan of anything chocolate and peanut butter, and these look lovely!

    Reply
    • Jeanette says

      March 25, 2014 at 10:30 pm

      Thanks Shaina – chocolate and peanut butter are so classic aren’t they!

      Reply

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