A Gluten Free Cookie
@GardenGerty (169489)
United States
August 27, 2015 3:36pm CST
I never thought of this recipe as gluten free, because I have made it forever. A food service chef I know pointed out that it is exactly that.
Blend together ! C peanut butter, I C sugar, I egg, and 1 tsp. vanilla. Make into round balls, about 2 Tbsp. of dough. Flatten with a fork dipped in sugar or however you like. Bake at 325 until golden on edges. Each stove is different, of course. Should be about 8 minutes.
If you need it to be diabetic friendly substitute a granulated sugar substitute, like sucralose for the sugar. These are very simple and good.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
27 Aug 15
Sounds yummy. Yes it's gluten free since it has no four in it. As for the sugar part. I'm not diabetic but have low blood sugar so have to be careful with too much added sugar….in times past when I used a recipe, I would cut the sugar to about half and never really noticed the difference
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@GardenGerty (169489)
• United States
28 Aug 15
This one may need the sugar to hold together. I guess you could make smaller cookies.
@marlina (154103)
• Canada
29 Aug 15
@pyewacket, Really you did cut the sugar in half and found no difference?
@GardenGerty (169489)
• United States
28 Aug 15
My grandmother learned this recipe at "Ladies' Club" which was a county extension organization and I have been making them for over forty years.
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@yukimori (10192)
• United States
28 Aug 15
@GardenGerty It has to be tried and true, then! 
I told my kindergartner about this recipe today after she got home from school. She's mad that we didn't make it this afternoon. 
I told my kindergartner about this recipe today after she got home from school. She's mad that we didn't make it this afternoon. 1 person likes this
@dashboardc33 (314)
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27 Aug 15
Gluten free cookies sound amazing! I try to eat gluten free when possible but it seems like almost everything these days has gluten in it!
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@GardenGerty (169489)
• United States
28 Aug 15
I do not have any trouble with gluten, so I never thought of these in that way, until it was pointed out to me.
@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
28 Aug 15
I would eat the jar of peanut butter the whole thing before I had the cookies made lolz
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@GardenGerty (169489)
• United States
28 Aug 15
You get one jar for the cookies and one jar to eat any way you like.
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@GardenGerty (169489)
• United States
29 Aug 15
The chef that I worked with that pointed out they were gluten free uses splenda (sucralose) and makes them for her diabetic family members. I bet the brown kind would taste good too.
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
29 Aug 15
@GardenGerty Thanks for the answer. I bought #Splenda half and half brown sugar, I think I will try this #gluten free, #cookie recipes then.
@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
27 Aug 15
Lately I have been adding peanut butter to my granola bar recipe and I really like it. But my digestive system has a thing about peanut butter. Sometimes it's fine, other times it's not so fine. Gluten it doesn't seem to mind at all. But these cookies sound very quick to make.
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@GardenGerty (169489)
• United States
28 Aug 15
They are quick. Does it depend on how much oil is in your peanut butter or whether it has corn oil or soybean oil? Can you post about your granola bar recipe?
