Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Published 2/13/2024
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These chocolate flourless peanut butter cookies are made sans flour, gluten, refined sugar, and butter! They’re ooey gooey and taste like a cross between a peanut butter cookie and a brownie!
These chocolate flourless peanut butter cookies really do taste like a cross between a peanut butter cookie and a brownie. They’re grain-free and made with coconut flour, coconut sugar, all-natural peanut butter, and DARK cocoa powder.
Lin and I made 6 flipping batches of this healthy dessert recipe to make sure they would be PERFECT for you. Also- we love cookies, and any excuse to make more cookies is a good excuse.
What You Need for our Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
- All-Natural Peanut Butter: Brings that real peanutty kick and makes the cookies nice and chewy. It’s like the glue holding everything together. You can use creamy peanut butter or chunky peanut butter. We’ve also made these with cashew butter, and they’re AMAZING.
- Coconut Palm Sugar: This natural sweetener adds a sweet, caramel-like vibe to the cookies. You could also use light brown sugar if you like.
- Dark Cocoa Powder: Gives a serious chocolate boost. It has a rich, deep cocoa flavor that makes these cookies a chocolate lover’s dream. You could use regular unsweetened cocoa powder instead of dark if you like.
- Chocolate Chips: We love using dark chocolate chips for this recipe, but semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips would also work
Ingredient Swaps
- Nut butter: we’ve made these cookies using almond butter and cashew butter and they’re both delicious.
- Sugar: feel free to use light brown sugar instead.
- Cocoa powder: we used a dark cocoa powder for this recipe, but regular works too.
PS: check out our chocolate peanut butter protein cookies, for a similar recipe that incorporates protein powder!
#1 tip for flourless cookies!
Our number 1 tip for flourless cookies is to LET THEM COOL!
Because there is no flour in these cookies, it’s important to give them time to firm up before serving. If you don’t they will likely fall apart!
Storage
Store leftover cookies in an airtight container on the counter for 3-5 days. You can also freeze in a sealed container for up to 4 months.
Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
- 1 cup drippy, all-natural peanut butter
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Dry Ingredients
- ⅔ cup coconut palm sugar, or light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon coconut flour
- 2 tablespoons dark cocoa powder, but any kind will work!
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- sea salt, sprinkled on top
Toppings
- 1/3 cup chocolate chips
- sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF and spray a baking sheet with coconut oil cooking spray. Set aside
- Place the wet ingredients into a large bowl and mix until combined. Then, add dry ingredients and mix again until you've formed a cookie dough.
- Use a 1.5-tablespoon cookie scooper to scoop out dough. Then roll the dough between your hands and slightly flatten (the cookies will not expand much). Place on cookie sheet and then top with chocolate chips and sea salt.
- Bake at 350º for 10 minutes. Let cool for at least 30 minutes so that the cookies can firm up. They are flourless, after all!
Tips & Notes
- We tested this recipe 6 times to make sure it was chewy yet perfectly chocolatey and peanut buttery.
- These really do taste like a cross between a peanut butter cookie and a brownie. They’re grain-free, made with coconut flour, coconut sugar, all natural peanut butter, and DARK cocoa powder.
- You can use light brown sugar in place of coconut sugar and cashew butter instead of peanut butter.
- Top with flaky sea salt to bring out the chocolate flavor.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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These were so delicious. I made mine with almond and cashew butter and had a really hard time not eating them all right away!
Your recipes give me life!! Can’t wait to try this one!!! Where can I buy coconut flour though? I’ve never seen it at stop n shop
I’m not sure what Stop n Shop is, but you can pretty much find it anywhere in the baking and or bulk section. Amazon is a good place too if you really can’t find it!
Do you think that I could substitute sunbutter since I am allergic to tree nuts and peanuts?
ABSOLUTELY!!!
One question more: do you think that this would work with PB2 powdered peanut butter to cut down on the fat? Or will it ruin the cookie?
It would definitely ruin the cookie. The stickiness of the peanut butter is essential! HEALTHY FATS BABY.
Cookies sound delicious. I have coconut sugar but not sure if there is a difference with the coconut PALM sugar? Can you elaborate? Will regular coconut sugar work? Loved your travel pics. Your Man Candy sounds like a keeper.
HIYAH! So sorry for the late response (I know you already made them)….coconut sugar and coconut palm sugar are the same thing!
Pb and chocolate will ALWAYS be the best combo known to man. These cookies look Ah-maz-ing! Dark cocoa is soooooo good!
I don’t even know what to say…all my favorites in one cookie…yes please! Have a beautiful day friend! 🙂
Thank you! You too!!! I hope you guys get good weather today 🙂
Looks delish, a combination of dark, intense chocolate with peanut butter = my kind of cookie! Your paleo pumpkin brownie is one of my favourite desserts so I can’t wait to try these!
Glad to have you back and hear about your travels, but sorry for the long distance 🙁 Are you planning on more trips to visit each other or a relocation soon? I have never done long distance and don’t know how I could make it work in the long run, so kudos to you both, you look so cute together! 🙂
The month of September is CRAZY for me! We have 4 weddings and 3 are where he lives. Other than that we’ve pretty much got the rest of 2016 planned out of when he’s coming here and I’m going there.
Wow, you’ll have a wedding-busy month! But so good you’ll be seeing Man Candy a lot, weddings are fun, especially if you’re there with someone you love 🙂 Have a great, eventful September!
YES. I love weddings, actually! Mark wore his Fit Bit to the last wedding we were at and we were at 25k steps! DANCE DANCE BABY.
I know! Dancing is probably my favourite part of weddings! Thankfully Boyfriend loves to dance, and I just love dancing with him at weddings until our feet hurt ;-D Have fun and dance a lot! 😉
It’s like you knew I’ve been craving something sweet! Haha. These look DELICIOUS. I tried a dark chocolate cookie once and it ended up being way too gooey and they all stuck together. I’ll definitely be trying these!
I hope these don’t disappoint! If they do- send your batch my way and I’ll eat em all 😀