Finally! A healthier gluten free cookie not filled with a bunch of random flours. Satisfy your sweet tooth with these chewy delights - sweetened with only maple syrup and studded with chocolate chips!
Seriously - these are so easy, delicious(!!), and the texture is SPOT ON. If you’ve been looking for a simple, healthier cookie that tastes awesome - whether you are gluten/dairy free or not - look no further. The ingredient list is short, as is the overall prep time. Honestly, I can’t say enough good things about this recipe. It’s so tough to find gluten and dairy free desserts that aren’t filled with a ton of weird flours and gums (xantham, guar) to give them a normal texture. Or the “dessert” can hardly claim the title of dessert it’s so [insert dry/tasteless/crumbly/flavorless adjective].
Definitely one of the hardest things to modify to a gluten and dairy free lifestyle is DESSERT! There are very few mainstream dessert items that don’t include one of those two ingredients, and I have to say, I find sorbet very unsatisfying. I’ve been doing fine when it comes to dessert because I adore chocolate. Nate, however, loves his ice cream, but he likes to be healthy too. So I made it my mission to play around with a few different recipes to see if I could make something that fit the bill - a healthier sweet treat that was also gluten and dairy free, and tasted good. Enter, my new go to recipe for PB oatmeal chocolate chip cookies!
One of the things I love about this recipe is that these cookies are the perfect amount of sweet, with great spicy tones from the cinnamon and maple syrup. I based this recipe off of Sally’s Baking Addiction, but I swapped in maple syrup for sugar and upped the amount of oats. I love a good oat-y texture when it comes to my oatmeal cookies, and the maple syrup needed some extra dry ingredients to soak it all up. The peanut butter allows for no extra oil to be required for this recipe.
I’ve made multiple versions of this recipe on Sunday, and we have a healthier treat to have around the house all week - and I promise, even folks who don’t keep gluten/dairy free will enjoy. They probably wouldn’t even know it if you didn’t tell them! It’s like when you sneak vegetables into a kid’s meal and they eat it unknowingly. Sneaky sneaky. Hope you enjoy as much as we do!
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup peanut butter, room temperature
- ½ cup chocolate chips (I used Enjoy Life brand for dairy free)
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 4 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- Dash of cinnamon
- Dash of salt
- Mix all ingredients together
- Form into a ball in plastic wrap and refrigerate for a minimum of 30 minutes
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F
- On a greased baking pan or parchment paper, form 1-inch balls from the dough
- Slightly press down to flatten
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, until the bottoms of the cookies are starting to turn brown
- They will still be slightly soft when you remove from the oven
- Let cool and enjoy!
If you like this, you’ll love: Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies with Dried Cherries (one of my earlier recipes on the blog!)
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Yum! I love getting new cookie recipes, but these days all the recipes I see have a bunch of expensive ingredients that I just don’t keep in my house.
Thanks for sharing!
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Agreed! I just can’t bring myself to buy tapioca flour or potato starch..
These look PERFECT! I love a good healthy cookie. I usually try to make them without eggs because I’ve had requests for that in the past but they can really make the texture so much better. I’m drooling just thinking about these!
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I was going to try making these vegan…I’ll give that a go and let you know how they turn out!
agreed! some of these gluten free cookies have like nine different types of flours i can’t even find! oatmeal is the best - convenient and delicious
I love that these cookies can be made with stuff that most everyone has in their pantry already!
Mmmm, these these look incredible! Chocolate and peanut butter have to be the best combo! I can so see myself devouring all of these. Thank you so much for sharing!
It’s a combination that’s hard to beat!!
YUM! These look like they have so much texture! Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies are my favorite, and here you go adding peanut butter to the mix! A perfect addition as far as I’m concerned 🙂
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It’s a tried and true winning combo!