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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Nutrition
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Photography: photos taken in this post are by Erin from The Wooden Skillet.
These are great! Really loved the simplicity and the fact that I didn’t need flour. I also think the Hershey kiss sticks better in these than in traditional peanut butter blossoms so that’s an added bonus 🙂
i really like your blog very informative and helpful me thanks for the info.
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Somewhere I went wrong because my cookies didn’t taste like peanut butter and they were tasteless as my husband lut I t. I used smuckers organic chunky peanut butter and followed the recipe.
Just made these for my neighbors and co-workers! 🙂
YAY!! You are the best neighbor/coworker EVER. Cookies for errrryone!
PB blossoms are my big bros FAVORITE! So when we saw each other on Thanksgiving, I made him a batch of totally healthifiyed (rebecca approved) ones and…he loved them!!! So proud 😉
I love pb blossoms and I can’t believe that you made these healthier! Mind=blown! Nobody will be able to tell! 😉
These are a favorite of mine but haven’t made a grain free version yet – and it’s been cookies galore over here too and loving it 🙂
I need these! I just completed a Whole30 and plan to stick to Paleo with the exception of my beloved peanut butter, so I’ll absolutely call these Paleo as well 🙂
🙂 If everyone does it….maybe they will just consider peanut butter as paleo.
I think I’m taking more like a week to make ALL the cookies. Next week shall be a good one 🙂
That’s what I’m talking bout! ALL THE COOKIES.