Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Today is the big reveal day for the August posts for the Secret Recipe Club

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

And these fugdy, chewy, very chocolatey chocolate cookies

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

with hints of peanut butter undertones

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

are what I am really excited to reveal!

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Last month, I made Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

Flourless Peanut Butter CookiesMany of you have written to me to tell me that you’ve made these and you love the simplicity of the recipe and that the full-bodied peanut butter flavor has you hooked and you’re never going back to traditional PB cookies.  Me either!

But I think you’ll be very happy with my enhanced version, i.e. chocolate is added in two forms

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Because isn’t everything better with a little enhancing?

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip CookiesI think so.

This month, I was assigned the blog Not Rachel Ray and when I saw she had made Flourless Chocolate Cookies using Lori the Recipe Girl’s recipe (as an aside Lori is a fellow San Diego area blogger and she hosted an awesome party I attended a few weeks ago)

I knew I wanted to take a stab at Flourless Chocolate Cookies.

I adapted my own Flourless Peanut Butter Cookie recipe and this is what I came up with.

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip CookiesI’m pretty sure you won’t have problems with leftovers on your hands.

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Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies (Naturally Gluten Free, with Vegan Option.  Adapted from my own Flourless Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe)

3/4 c white sugar

1/4 c brown sugar, packed

1/2 c cocoa powder, unsweetened

1 c peanut butter

1 egg (replace real egg by combining 1 tbsp ground flax seeds + 3 tbsp warm water in a small bowl and stirring.  Allow a “jelly” to form after a few minutes and use this as your “egg”)

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 c to 3/4 chocolate chips (or peanut butter chips, white chocolate chips, butterscotch chips) & stir to combine

Directions:

Combine all ingredients except the chocolate chips in one bowl and stir by hand with a spoon.

After all ingredients are incorporated stir in the chocolate chips

At this point you have the option to place the dough in the freezer for 10-15 minutes.  Cold dough will create puffier/thicker cookies vs. thinner/flatter cookies during the baking process.  It will also help with the rolling out/ball-forming process but it’s optional if you’re in a hurry.

Form into 1 inch balls (I rolled mine with my hands but you could just drop them on a cookie sheet with a spoon) and place on cookie sheet (I used parchment-lined + lightly sprayed with cooking spray for easy cleanup).

Bake at 350F for 10 to 12 minutes or until they barely look done.  They can go from raw to burned in about 90 seconds so watch them but know that because they are dark cookies, visuals may be tricky.

They may not look done after 10-12 minutes, but that’s ok.  Take them out of the oven anyway and allow them to cool.

Yields 24 cookies (Mine were fairly small.  Reducing to 12-18 bigger cookies is an option and adjust baking time accordingly)

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A Visual Guide:

Gather your ingredients

Ingredients for Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip CookiesAdd everything into one bowl except the chocolate chips.

I kept the dry ingredients at the bottom and then put the wet ingredients on top because I wanted a dry ingredients “bed” for the PB but I’m sure it doesn’t matter.  I wouldn’t want to waste a drop of PB by having it get stuck to bottom the bowl.

Stir to combine all the ingredients, then add the chocolate chips, and stir those in.

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Dough will be very thick and it looks sticky and quite un-workable, but the fat in the peanut butter keeps the dough together and less sticky than you’d imagine.

Freeze your mixing bowl with the dough in it for 10-15 minutes before rolling out the balls.

Or, simply roll immediately if you’re impatient and don’t want to chill the dough.

Note: warmer dough will produce flatter and crisper cookies; colder dough will produce puffier and chewier cookies

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip CookiesBake for 10-12 minutes or until they are barely done looking.

I like chewy, gooey, half-baked cookies so I was a 10 minute girl

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Allow them to cool for as long as you can stand it

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Devour

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

The beauty of these cookies are that:

they only take 2 minutes to mix up the dough

no electric mixer required & you can do it all by hand

minimal cleanup/dishes (I hate baking projects where you dirty every dish in your kitchen!)

naturally GF and very easily adapted to be vegan

and they will make all chocaholics very happy.

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip CookiesThe cold dough really dis make a difference in the finished product.

The flourless chococlate cookies are really puffy compared to my previous flourless peanut butter cookies which I baked with warm dough on a warm day.

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are perfectly chewy

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip CookiesAnd not dry.  <– Dry baked goods are not worth my chew!

In terms of flavor, these are definitely chocolate cookies that have been enhanced with peanut butter

If you want more of a peanut buttery flavor, scale back the cocoa powder

Or just make these and add chocolate chips

But if you want to get your chocolate on, today’s cookies are for you.

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip CookiesAnd they’re small.  So grab a few.

And if for some reason you want to stuff candy bars in your cookies, try Snickers Bar Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

Snickers Bar Stuffed Chocolate Chip CookiesFeel free to stuff just about any kind of candy bar in these, too


Want to see what other people in the Secret Recipe Club made this month?

Questions:

1. What’s your favorite cookie?

My favorite cookies are half-baked, ooey-gooey, not dry.  And if a cookie is properly baked and the flavors are balanced, I can appreciate just about any kind of cookie from chocolate chip to peanut butter cookies to snickerdoodle to molasses.

Ironically one cookie that tends to bore me are sugar cookies.  And I love sugar!  But they are usually too overbaked, too crispy, too dry, and the monotone flavor is boring for me.  I created raw vegan sugar cookie dough bites though, and they’re not dry or boring.  Promise.

I also really like texture which is why oatmeal raisin cookie with their chunky oats, raisins, and brown sugar are always a hit with me.  The raw vegan oatmeal raisin cookies here are so easy, too.  No oven required.

2. Can anything ever be too chocolatey?  Too dark or intense?

I think not! 

Just like I said nothing can ever be too rich or too sweet when I was talking about these

White Chocolate Vanilla Marshmallow Cake Bars – 4 Layers

White Chocolate Vanilla Marshmallow Cake Bars – 4 Layers

Nothing can ever be too chocolatey or too dark. 

I’d rather skip “milk” chocolate and either do white or dark chocolate, actually.

These cookies are more of dark chocolate meets hint of peanut butter.

I love sweet, white chocolate but I also love rich, full-bodied dark chocolate, too.

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies stacked on white plate

P.S. If you’re just catching up on posts from the weekend, here are mine since Friday:

Have a great week!

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  1. Hi Averie! I just wanted to let you know that I’m featuring this amazing recipe in my post 102 Gluten Free Cookie Recipies. I’m also pinning it to my Gluten Free Cookie Madness Board. :)

    You are more than welcome to share this amazing resource with your readers or link to this post if you’d like! Thanks so much for the inspiration! Here’s the url: 102 Gluten Free Cookie Recipies

  2. I’m looking for things that are gluten free AND casein free, so to bake these as is would not be an option for me. Have you ever tried substituting Enjoy Life (or some other brand) of dairy free chocolate chips? My four year old thanks you!

    1. Most good quality dark or semi-sweet chips SHOULD be casein free – just cocao butter solids and maybe some lecithin as an emulsifier – but if you want to spend the money $$ for Enjoy Life, go for it. They’d be fine in these.

  3. Just made these for my grandmother who has recently been diagnosed with celiac disease.. she was pretty upset because she figured she couldn’t bake anything anymore and that it wouldn’t taste as good… Needless to say she absolutely loved them and couldn’t believe they were GF! My dad is also celiac for 6-7yrs and he really loved them too!! Everyone did! Thanks for this (and the other great recipes) Next time I’ll probably have to make a double batch!

    1. That’s wonderful that you were able to bake these for your dad and grandma, both with Celiac, and that they loved them and that a double-batch is in store for next time. Wonderful news & thanks for LMK! :)

  4. So sorry for the misspellings. The auto correct on my iPad doesn’t catch some things and changes others.