Tonight, after two days of shoveling snow, I decided to reward myself with a small batch of cookies. Of course, I didn’t want to blow my whole diet or eat something terribly unhealthy, so I tossed together this easy gluten-free cookie recipe. It ended out making 10 cookies, using a 2 tbs size scoop. With all the chewy oatmeal in them, along with protein from the peanut butter & egg, I was quite satisfied with two. I even got my chocolate fix to boot.
I tried to keep these pretty simple. I didn’t add any flour or butter, peanut butter would handle their jobs. The egg would help hold them together, add moisture and some sheen. A little salt & vanilla for taste & chocolate…well, because I want chocolate.
- Serves: 10
- Calories: 142
- Fat: 7
- Carbohydrates: 18
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 3
- ⅓ cup natural creamy peanut butter (if using crunchy add a tbs.)
- ⅓ cup light brown sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp Kosher salt
- 1 large egg (beaten)
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- ⅓ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream together the peanut butter, sugar, vanilla and salt.
- Add egg and mix well, then stir in oats, until well coated.
- Add the chocolate chips and fold in until evenly distributed.
- Drop 2 tbs size scoops of the cookie dough onto non-stick or coated baking sheet. (for uniform scoops with tidy look, use melon baller or other round scoop coated with non-stick cooking spray)
- Bake for approximately 12 minutes. Bottoms will be lightly browned and tops will have sheen.
- Place on rack to cool.
These made me officially discover that, I WILL WORKOUT FOR COOKIES. Just sayin’ 
That melted chocolate looks great!
Looks so yummy!
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Those cookies look sooooo good right now!
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These sound delish! My husband loves peanut butter cookies and I love choc. chip oatmeal cookies. What a great idea to combine them all into one.
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Thank you for posting this!! I was looking to make something for a friend’s bday and she is GF.
Looks very yummy!
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I love that there’s no specialty flour involved!
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Super easy and they look tasty! I love that you omitted flour.
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I just made chocolate chip oatmeal cookies the other day, adding peanut butter would have been awesome!
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So much chocolate stuff around the internet right now-yummy!
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A trinity of my favorite types of cookies all blended together AND gluten free? You are a rockstar!
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Yum! I love oatmeal & chocolate chips, it’s such a yummy combo!
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These would be great to pack for school lunches!
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ok I think I have to make these tomorrow since I have everything readily available to me right now. yum yum and yum!
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They look soooooo good, but dang it, I don’t like PB.
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These sound delightful.
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just make sure you get GF oats!
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This look scrumptious! Love oatmeal, peanut butter, and chocolate!
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Scrumptious! You can never go wrong with peanut butter and chocolate.
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Oh my)) It sounds easy, but looks so yummy. Can’t wait to try out this recipe. thanks for sharing!
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Hubby would love these – accept we’d need to do sunbutter
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I used to buy Sunbutter for my daughter when she was little. That stuff is yummy.
I love oatmeal cookies but haven’t ever tried adding pumpkin. These sound great!
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I’ve never tried pumpkin either…lol. I totally will have to make some now though
OHHH these are right up my husband’s alley and he tries to monitor his gluten.
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Those look awesome!
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These look amazing, gooey and yummy. Love your new design.
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Some of my favorites!
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