Flourless Peanut Butter Blossoms
Published 12/4/2023 • Updated 11/5/2024
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These flourless peanut butter blossoms are one of our favorite recipes. The cookie dough itself is made with only peanut butter, brown sugar, an egg, and vanilla extract. A simple, flourless dough for a delicious cookie.
Peanut butter cookies are our all-time favorite! Lee’s mom is a genie when it comes to making peanut butter cookies, ask anyone in the family. We make them all year round and around Christmas time, we stick a Hershey’s Kiss in the middle for a little extra love.
These flourless peanut butter cookies are an ode to Mama Kay’s flourless cookies. They are easy to whip together and taste amazing. If you like these cookies, you’ll have to try out our other flourless peanut butter cookies, peanut butter oatmeal cookies.
What is in Flourless Peanut Butter Blossoms?
These gluten-free peanut butter blossoms are made with peanut butter, brown sugar, 1 egg, and vanilla extract. The dough sits to hydrate and then you roll each ball in turbinado for sweetness and crunch. The Hershey Kiss is the last ingredient, don’t forget it!
PS: try our classic peanut butter kiss cookies recipe!
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Variations + Substitutions
There are few ingredients in these cookies, so there aren’t a ton of substitutions or variations. You can replace the peanut butter with a different type of nut butter, just remember the flavor will change based on what nut butter is used.
If you are short on Hershey Kisses you can fold chocolate chips or M&Ms into the cookies instead.
If you don’t love chocolate, skip the Hershey kisses altogether!
Tips for Flourless Peanut Butter Blossoms
- Be sure to let the cookie dough sit in the refrigerator to allow the flour to hydrate.
- These cookies are flourless so they will have a bit of a different texture compared to regular peanut butter blossoms.
- The Hershey kisses are added to the cookies and baked again for a few moments so the Hershey kisses melt into the cookie a bit.
- These cookies are excellent frozen for later.
Storage + Freezer Instructions
Let these cookies cool completely before storing them in an airtight container. Be sure that the Hershey Kisses have hardened completely before stacking the cookies or they may get smashed.
Freezing instructions: Once the cookies have cooled place them into a freezer-safe bag and freeze for up to 3 months.
What to Serve with Flourless Peanut Butter Blossoms
These cookies are best served alongside other delicious cookies. We recommend pairing these with soft gingerbread cookies, maple sugar cookies, or chocolate crinkle cookies.
Flourless Peanut Butter Blossoms
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-natural, drippy peanut butter
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons turbinado sugar
- 15-18 Hershey’s kisses
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Add all of the ingredients to a large bowl and mix until well combined.
- Transfer the dough to the refrigerator and chill for 1 hour.
- Use a tablespoon cookie scoop to scoop out the cookie dough and roll it into balls. Roll each ball in the turbinado sugar. Place it on a cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and place a Hershey kiss into the middle of each cookie, pressing the Hershey kiss down, and flattening the cookie.
- Return the baking sheet to the oven for 2 additional minutes. Remove the oven and let the cookies cool. Transfer to a cooling rack.
Tips & Notes
- This recipe was updated on December 4th, 2023. Here is the link to the old recipe.
- Be sure to let the cookie dough sit in the refrigerator to allow the flour to hydrate.
- These cookies are flourless so they will have a bit of a different texture compared to regular peanut butter blossoms.
- The Hershey kisses are added to the cookies and baked again for a few moments so the Hershey kisses melt into the cookie a bit.
- These cookies are excellent frozen for later.
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These cookies are better than the ones with flour!
These cookies are better than the original cookies!
Great flourless alternative to the “traditional” PB Blossom! The recipe notes do call out that the texture is a little different- I didn’t mind the texture. The texture seemed more cookie dough like which I wasn’t sure about at first but decided I like it! I will make again to share with gluten conscious friends 🙂
MY MIL had given me this PB cookie recipe ages ago. I hadn’t made them in forever. Loved them then; love them now! Super simple recipe. I could not find turbinado sugar so I used regular sugar in its place. I used the Sugar Cookie Kisses.
Since I have all the “many” ingredients 😄 on hand all the time (except Kisses), these will be on frequent rotation. May even experiment with Stevia to make a sugar free version.