These Peanut Butter Cookies with Almond flour are a classic dessert reinvented so that it’s better than the real thing.
Peanut Butter Cookies with Almond Flour
With almond flour instead of the usual wheat flour, my peanut butter cookies are as healthy and low carb as it gets.
Fans tell me it’s their go-to cookie recipe, and I can’t argue with that because we love them too!
Peanut Butter Cookies Healthy
Peanut Butter Cookies that are healthy? Yes, please!
With only one-quarter cup of sweetener in the entire recipe, you can feel great about serving these to your little ones.
Peanut Butter Allergies
If you have a peanut butter allergy, make these peanut butter cookies with Sunbutter instead of the peanut butter called for in the recipe below. It’s a one-to-one swap.
The Best Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
These cookies are healthy, low carb, and versatile, making this the best peanut butter cookies recipe –try it, and you’ll see!
Peanut Butter Cookies Simple
Looking for peanut butter cookies that are simple to throw together? This seven ingredient recipe couldn’t be easier.
Peanut Butter Cookies with Almond Flour
Ingredients
- 1 cup blanched almond flour (not almond meal)
- ½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter or sunbutter
- ¼ cup agave nectar or honey
- 2 tablespoons palm shortening or salted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a small bowl combine almond flour, salt, and baking soda
- In a medium bowl mix peanut butter, agave, shortening, and vanilla with a hand blender
- Blend dry ingredients into wet until combined
- Scoop dough 1 tablespoon at a time onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet
- Use a fork to flatten in a criss-cross pattern
- Bake at 350°F for 6-12 minutes until golden around the edges
- Serve
Peanut Butter Cookies Vegan
These Peanut Butter Cookies with Almond Flour are vegan if you use agave instead of honey.
Remember, honey comes from bees, so it is not a vegan food.
Peanut Butter Cookies Homemade
Is there anything better than peanut butter cookies homemade? I don’t think so.
If you’re feeling fancy, after the cookies cool, melt some dark chocolate and dip each cookie into it so that they’re chocolate-coated peanut butter cookies.
These would make amazing Hanukkah and Christmas gifts.
For more fantastic homemade holiday gifts, check out the following:
Recipe for Ice Cream Sandwich
We love stuffing these Peanut Butter Cookies with my Vegan Vanilla Ice Cream and rolling them in chocolate sprinkles or mini chocolate chips to make a healthy recipe for ice cream sandwiches.
Peanut Butter Cookies Soft
My Peanut Butter Cookies with Almond Flour are nice and crisp around the edges and deliciously soft on the inside.
Peanut Butter Cookies 5 Ingredients
Ok, now for a question. Are these peanut butter cookies 5 ingredients?
When you count the ingredients in a recipe, do you include the salt and baking soda? Leave a comment and let me know!
Cookie Recipes Gluten Free
I have dozens and dozens of cookie recipes that are gluten free for you.
Check them all out on my Cookies Page.
Cookie Recipes Almond Flour
Here are some of my other easy vegan cookie dough recipes for you!
Bake the dough into cookies, or roll it and dip in dark chocolate to make cookie balls. The sky’s the limit!
Lastly, all of the recipes below other than the Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies (which are nut free) are cookie recipes with almond flour.
And each of these cookie recipes is low-sugar and entirely free from refined sugar sweeteners.
Cookie Recipes Snickerdoodles
My Snickerdoodles cookie recipe is made with an almond flour base that’s dipped in cinnamon and coconut sugar.
This egg free, dairy free cookie recipe is delicious for cookie monsters young and old!
Cookie Recipes Pumpkin Chocolate Chip
My recipe for almond flour is made with a base of coconut flour, arrowroot, and pumpkin pureé that’s spiked with deliciously warming pumpkin pie spice.
It’s a nut free, egg free cookie that’s perfect for the holidays, but so good we make it all year round!
Thumbprint Cookies Raspberry
Your friends and family will never know the difference with these amazing Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies.
Although they’re a cookie that’s gluten free and low carb, they taste just like the real thing.
Chocolate Chip Cookies Healthy
My Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies are made with five ingredients, not including the salt and baking soda.
All you need to throw them together is almond flour, butter, maple syrup, vanilla, and chocolate chips.
They’re a total crowd-pleaser, perfect for everything from holiday parties to summer potlucks.
I used to make these Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies for my son and his teammates when I coached his baseball team in third grade.
He’s now finished with college and in grad school, if you can believe that!
Cookie Recipes Healthy
If you’re looking for cookie recipes that are healthy, the above treats are for you.
What’s your favorite? Or, is there something you’re looking for that’s not here? Leave a comment and let me know!
This Peanut Butter Cookies with Almond Flour recipe is an oldie but goodie from the archives. I first shared it in 2011.
Amy says
Sunbutter works great! I also used 1/2 gluten free oats and 1/2 almond flour because I like that chewy/crunchy texture. These were delicious!
Elana says
Thanks Amy!
Regina says
Just made these and they were yummy! I used butter instead of shortening, and I flattened them with a fork for the classic PB cookie look. I used a small disher to portion them out and cooked them for 7 mins. Perfect!
Elana says
Regina, so glad to hear these were perfect!
Marianne says
Made these tonight and they are delicious! I used Earth Balance instead of shortening and they turned out great. The first batch was a little overdone on the bottom at 9 min, the second batch were perfect at 7.5 min. I was able to use a fork to flatten them before baking.
Elana says
Thanks Marianne!
Patti says
made these last night with trader joe’s almond meal, butter & maple syrup. they were fantastic! definitely had to wait for them to cool all the way or they’d fall apart. once cooled, they were perfect!
Elana says
Patti, thanks for letting us know these were perfect!
kristin says
Palm oil is destroying the rainforest. Please consider using alternatives. Check out Rainforest Action Network for more information.
Elana says
Kristin, we only use sustainably harvested palm oil, but feel free to experiment with substitutions if you prefer :-)
Tor says
These look so good! I’ve only recently had to go gluten-free, so I’m building up my limited repertoire of gf-vegan recipes. This is going in!
lily says
Just made these today and they turned out delicious!
It was my first attempt at baking with the honeyville almond flour.
Substituted maple syrup for the agave and used butter in place of the shortening.
Very easy to make and a great healthy snack!
Thanks for the recipe!
AmandaonMaui says
I’m going grain free and dairy free for a little while, and these were a great treat tonight. I didn’t pat them down and they cooked into rounded shapes like those Enjoy Life cookies at the store. These were delicious. I loved the texture and flavor. They weren’t overly sweet either. Yum! They made my outlook on a grain free, dairy free bit of time not so gloomy.
Heena says
I made these with coconut oil instead of shortening. Otherwise followed it exactly.
My cookie fell apart very easily. (ie when I tried to pick it up). Any suggestions?
Elana says
Heena, if you follow the recipe these will be perfect :-)
Jeanie says
These are fabulous. I made a few substitutions. Replaced the agave syrup with 1/4 cup maple syrup and about 3 tbl of organic coconut palm sugar. Also replaced the palm shortening (didn’t have any) with 1 tbl of coconut oil. Used Trader Joe’s chunky unsalted organic peanut butter. I’m not a vegan, so I think I’ll try swapping the oil out for an egg. I eat grain/sugar/gluten free and am so happy to have this recipe. Will definately make again….and again.