“Have another Nutter Butter peanut butter sandwich cooooookiiieeee!”
For us old-timers, that song sure can get stuck in our heads. But this peanut butter cookie is the cure. And it’s gluten-free! (Too bad almost all of my gluten-free family members hate peanut butter.)
You can make these as plain-old peanut butter cookies or fill them with vegan icing (recipe below)—which makes them taste like a gluten-free fluffernutter sandwich!
Or…you could fill them with ice cream! (It’s also usually gluten-free.)
Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
Makes 27 cookies
Ingredients:
Cookie
- 2 cups crunchy or smooth peanut butter
- 2 cups light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup coarsely chopped salted party peanuts
Vegan Icing
- ½ cup Earth Balance vegan shortening, softened
- ½ cup Earth Balance butter flavored vegan shortening
- 3½ cups powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- ¼ cup soy, almond, or coconut milk
- Pinch of salt
Directions:
To make the cookies:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix all cookie ingredients together in a bowl.
3. Roll dough into 27 tablespoon-size balls and do the fork press thing (press down across the top of the balls with a fork). Spray fork with coconut oil if it’s too sticky. Arrange pressed balls on a cookie sheet.
4. Bake for 9 minutes. Leave cookies on the cookie sheet to cool.
5. If you’re going to fill them with icing, wait until the cookies are completely cool, then ice and make into a sandwich—27 divided by two equals 13 cookie sandwiches…plus one for just-plain eating!
To make the icing:
1. Blend the shortening together in a bowl for 1 to 2 minutes.
2. Add the powdered sugar and blend for another 3 minutes.
3. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. And the vanilla, milk, and salt and blend for 6 minutes. Done!
Picture looks fantastic! Though cookie may be too much sugar for me 🙂
This looks like my kind of cookie. I can’t wait to make and devour these… 🙂
great idea but too much sugar could it be made with less?
Liked your recipe a lot. Looking forward for some more mouth watering recipes. Keep up the good work.
Can you use less sugar, and what would be the replacement?
@Anna, I made these myself and they were yummy. I think absolutely you could use less sugar if you wanted. I don’t think you even need a substitute. But they were delicious with all the sugar – a special weekend treat. 😉
Gorgeous little gluten free peanut butter cookie! It’s a perfect color for an outing this weekend! Love it!!