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Desserts | Cookies | Flourless Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

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Recipe: Flourless Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

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Summary: For those of us out there who want a chocolate chip peanut butter cookie but, want or need to watch our wheat intake. This flourless cookie is a delicious alternative for traditional chocolate chip peanut butter cookie recipes, except, (without) the flour. I’m a cookie person; love a cookie hot out of the oven with a cup of coffee. This has become the cookie of choice in our home! It’s delicious and easy to make, plus flourless. Fewer calories, too!

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1-cup creamy peanut butter
  • 2 tsp pure vanilla
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/8 tsp sea salt
  • 1-cup chocolate chips (or chocolate chunks)
  • 3/4-cup walnuts or pecans, chopped (optional)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
  2.  Cream peanut butter and sugar, until creamy and fluffy. Add vanilla, egg, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl until thoroughly blended. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.
  3. Roll dough into 1-1/2 inch balls (approximately the size of a golf ball). *For easier handling, the dough can be refrigerated for about thirty minutes prior to making into balls.
  4. Place dough balls on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper; 2 inches apart.
  5. Flatten each ball with the tines of a fork.
  6. Bake at 350° F, for 10-12 minutes, or until the cookie is puffed up and lightly browned on the bottom. Do not overcook, or your cookie will be rock hard.
  7. Take cookies out of the oven, place the whole baking sheet on a wire cooling rack, and let cookies cool on pan for ten minutes–this prevents crumbling. Then take a spatula to remove cookie to wire rack and let cool for 15 minutes more; store in an airtight container.

Cooking note: When I first started making these cookies I rolled the cookie ball in crystallized sugar–just like my grandmother used to do with her peanut butter cookies–however, since then, while the grandchildren prefer the extra sugar…I do not. My tastes have changed, and I have learned to cut back on my sugar intake, and I do not roll them in the extra sugar. In addition to this, for all those who do not know me, it is my preference to buy all ingredients “Organic” where I can.  If I can’t find organic chocolate chips, I buy organic chocolate chunks. Baking powder is not an item I have found in our local organic stores, however, I do buy it aluminum-free. I use sea salt as well.

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Desserts | Cookies | Flourless Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chunk Cookies by Virginia Wright

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Recipe: Flourless Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chunk Cookies 

Summary: For those of us out there who want a peanut butter chocolate chunk cookie 

but want or need to watch our wheat intake. This flourless cookie is a delicious alternative for chocolate chip peanut butter cookie recipes except (without) the flour. I’m a cookie person; love a cookie hot out of the oven with a cup of coffee. This has become the cookie of choice in our home! It’s delicious and easy to make, plus flourless. 

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Ingredients

  • 2 tsp. pure vanilla
  • 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1-cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/8 tsp. sea salt
  • 1-cup chocolate chunks (or chocolate chips)
  • 3/4-cup walnuts or pecans, chopped (optional)
  • 1/2 cup raw crystallized sugar to roll cookie balls in (optional)

Instructions

  1. Mix all ingredients in order given. Refrigerate dough for thirty minutes for easier flatten_cookie3handling. Roll dough into balls; dip all sides in raw sugar (optional).
  2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  3. Place balls on a cookie sheet and flatten with the tines of a fork.
  4. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
  5. Take cookies out of the oven and place the whole cookie sheet on cooling rack and let cookies cool on baking sheet for ten minutes–this prevents crumbling. Then remove to wire rack. Store in an airtight container.

Cooking note: When I first started making these cookies I rolled the cookie ball Pressed Cookies1in crystallized sugar–just like my grandmother used to do with her peanut butter cookies–however, since then, while the grandchildren prefer the extra sugar…I do not. My tastes have changed, and I have learned to cut back on my sugar intake. In addition to this, for all those who do not know me, it is my preference to buy all ingredients “Organic” where I can.  If I can’t find organic chocolate chunks, I buy organic chocolate chips. Baking powder is not an item I have found in our local organic stores, however, I do buy it aluminum-free. I use sea salt as well. All other ingredients organic as well.

Enjoy this flourless peanut butter chocolate chunk recipe! 

-Virginia Wright

Author, Food Writer, Recipe Developer, Foodie & Queen of Recipe Adaptation

 

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The Recipe Corner

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Recipes @ The Recipe Corner

I’m so excited how the recipe corner is starting to shape up! It was suggested by fans that I start posting recipes on my writing blog instead of only on social media sites. Based on the requests, I am going to post recipes in a new section here on my blog, that I refer to as the recipe corner.                                                              (https://virginiawright.com/blog/recipes)

If you have a “Tried and True” recipe you would like to have posted at the recipe corner, send in the recipe to [info] [at] virginiawright [dot] com. In the subject area type: Recipe Submission. Please include your full name and the state you are from along with your recipe, adding that you give permission to post your recipe. All recipes are reviewed for consideration, and if your recipe is chosen, you will be notified when it is in the queue for posting.

-Virginia Wright, Author & Queen of Recipe Adaptation :-)

Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Nut Cookies

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Ingredients:

2 tsp. pure vanilla
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 large egg
1 cup natural creamy peanut butter
1 tsp. baking powder
1/8 tsp. sea salt
1 cup chocolate chunks
3/4 cup walnuts, chopped
1/2 cup raw crystallized sugar to roll cookie balls in. (optional)
 
 
 
 
Directions:
 
Mix all ingredients in order given. Refrigerate dough for thirty minutes for easier handling. Roll dough into balls, dip all sides in raw sugar.  Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place balls on a cookie sheet and flatten with a tine of a fork. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Take out of the oven and place the whole cookie sheet on the cooling rack and let cookies cool on the baking sheet for ten minutes.

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Dessert

Christmas Dessert Recipes

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1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp. baking soda
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
Streusel Topping:
½ cup walnuts, finely chopped
1 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp. cinnamon
3 tbsp. unbleached all-purpose flour
4 tbsp. softened butter
Put all streusel ingredients in a bowl and mix; set aside.
In large mixing bowl blend butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs slowly, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla extract. In a separate bowl, combine sour cream and baking soda. In a third bowl add sifted flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat flour mixture into butter – egg mixture alternating with sour cream. Spoon one-third of the batter into an oiled and floured Bundt pan. Sprinkle one-third of the streusel over batter. Cover with another third of batter and sprinkle with another third of streusel and over that, cover with remaining batter and sprinkle with remaining streusel. Bake in 350° F oven for 40-50 minutes or until a knife or wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. When done, sit on cooling rack for ten minutes. Turn cake out on a platter and sift confectioners’ sugar on the top.
This is easy to make, and delicious cake. Serve Christmas morning with your coffee or tea.
*Do not substitute milk soured by vinegar for sour cream as the consistency will not be the same.
Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Nut Cookies
1 tsp. pure vanilla
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 large egg
1 cup natural creamy peanut butter
1 tsp. baking powder
1/8 tsp. sea salt
1 cup chocolate chunks
3/4 cup walnuts, chopped
1/2 cup raw crystallized sugar to roll cookie balls in.
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Cranberry Nut Cake

Cranberry Nut Cake

This “Cranberry Nut Cake” is slightly dry with a texture much like a pound cake. It is a bit tangy with four cups of fresh cranberries. This Cranberry Nut Cake is just right, and delicious with coffee on Christmas morning!

4 cups self-rise flour

2 cups granulated sugar

4 tbsp butter, melted

2 large eggs

1 cup natural Orange juice

12 oz. bag fresh cranberries (about four cups) halved

1 3/4 cups chopped walnuts

Topping:

1/4 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp butter

2 tsp cinnamon

Prepare bundt pan by greasing with butter and flour. Mix topping and sprinkle in bottom of the prepared pan. Then mix flour, sugar, butter, eggs, and orange juice until well blended– fold in cranberries and walnuts. Pour batter in prepared pan and bake in 350-degree oven for 55 min. or until the knife inserted in cake comes out clean.

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