Gluten-free Peanut Butter Cookies or Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies or " Nut Chunkies"

   

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      Peanut Butter cookies are a classic cookie for eating for an afternoon snack or maybe when you first wake up in the morning. This cookie recipe makes crisper crumblier cookies. Although some batches have come out chewy if I take them out a minute or two before I think theyre really done and let them cook the rest of the time on the counter. 

      Peanut butter cookies are usually made with some flour but I have a recipe that doesn't use flour so there's no need to find a gluten-free substitution. I like to call my peanut butter cookies "Nut Chunkies" because I like to load them up with lots of yummy bits and morsels like raisins and oatmeal and different types of chocolate chips and chunky peanut butter. One of these days I'd like to try dried cherries or dried apple.

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

"Nut Chunkies"

1 cup jif creamy/smooth peanut butter

1/4 cup jif chunky peanut butter

1 1/4 brown sugar

1 large egg

1 tsp  McCormicks  vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

1 small snack box raisins (1-2 oz)

1/4 cup nestle mini morsel chocolate chips

1/4 cup guittard white chocolate chips

1/4 cup reese's peanut butter chips

1/4 cup Hershey's butterscotch chips

(optional)1/3 cup gluten free old fasioned oatmeal

(optional) 3 tbsp Nutella (optional, mix in or use as spread to make cookie sandwiches)

Mix first 6 ingredients together well, then add the rest and mix well.

1 inch balls

325 degrees for 12- 15 mins

Set for 5 mins and cool

    Experiment with making a dip in the middle of each cookie after taking them out of the oven and have cooled a minute or two and putting Nutella in the middle or cream or something like marshmallow cream or white chocolate.

      Using all different types of chocolate chips aren't necessary for this recipe to be a success. The same type of chocolate morsel or many other types can be used in the same proportions as this recipe, usually adding up to a cup.

     Raisins aren't necessary in this recipe either. They can be left out or some other dried easy chew fruit may be substituted in its place such as dried cherries or dried apple that's been cut into small bite size pieces.

   Chunky peanut butter is not necessary for this recipe to be a success either, more smooth peanut butter can but used in place of the chunky.
   Or if extra chunky cookies are in order chunky peanut butter may be used instead of smooth peanut butter.