Flourless Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
These cookies got me thinking about all the different ways that I enjoy peanut butter and jelly. You know I love a list… so here goes.
I love peanut butter and jelly:
on white bread with the crust cut off.
rolled up in a warm flour tortilla.
on a toasted bagel, excluding the dreaded onion bagel.
on a spoon.
at midnight.
at lunch from a plastic bag.
with a Capri Sun.
after a date.
after a breakup.
with a banana.
without a stinkin’ banana.
on Wednesday.
every Wednesday.
from now.
until forever.
amen.
I could go on. and on and. on. Really… let’s cut to the cookie.
These flourless peanut butter cookies are my go-to cookie recipe. There are only four ingredients. This recipe is heroic. They’re super simple, crisp little cookies. Make a little indentation in the center of these cookies, add your favorite jam, bake em up… you’ve got peanut butter and jelly cookies.
It’s not rocket science. It is super yumtown.
Flourless Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
adapted from The Gourmet Cookbook
makes about 32 small cookies
1 cup all-natural chunky or smooth peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking soda
about 1/4 cup any fruit preserves you fancy
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a baking sheet with butter and set aside. In a mixer combine peanut butter and sugars until well combined, about 2 minutes. Add egg and baking soda and mix for another 2 minutes. The dough will be crumbly. Roll into teaspoon sized balls and make a small indentation in the center of the dough ball with your pointer finger. Fill the depression with fruit preserves. Bake for 12 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool on a baking sheet for two minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
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This is a great Monday morning to be reading about peanut butter cookies.
Joy – what kind of cookie sheet do you use? I often (almost always) use a double insulated cookie sheet with parchment and turn it half way through the baking.
I will make these tonight!!! Yum.
I hope you don’t mind, I posted you as my favorite blog on Taste of Home’s Facebook page, and now they’ve posted a link!
Have you tried pb on toast with sweet chili sauce – delicious – just like a satay!! Will try making these darling little cookies tonight…
hahaha its good to see that not only my baking sheet looks a little “used”. ^^
the cookies look delicious!
Haha! I love all the descriptions of how you love peanut butter and jelly. I may love to cook and bake, but I have a PB&J sandwich at least twice a week. Good to know I’m not alone! Those are the most adorable cookies, Joy. They’d be cute for a kid’s bday party, and probably very popular!
I had just decided to make these for my daughter’s 4th birthday party this weekend & then I read your comment! Right on!
Yummy peanut butter!!! Man that would be great with some fresh made jam :)
That sounded like a brilliant mix of Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein. Considering, I feel similarly about all things PB&J, I much appreciated it. And CANNOT WAIT to make these cookies!!
Yum! I think I’ll make these for Father’s Day, I make regular ones every year but these sound great, Thanks!
Joy – Yummers on the PB&J cookies! simple. beautiful. delish. You don’t know how comforting it is to see your cookie sheets are just as rockin-ratty as mine! ;) ha,ha
Peanut butter? You’ll never go wrong. I just posted about your low-fat chocolate muffins!
My favorite…PB & J with crushed BBQ chips in the middle. YUMMY!!
PB & J, PB & Honey, PB & Bananas, or how about a PB+H+B+loads of home-made strawberry jam (that is the way my hubby likes it, I came home and busted him with jam dripping down his shirt and all over the kitchen floor) I will try making these cookies for him if he is lucky, he is at the top of my poop roster right now!
just printed it and off to preheat the oven! perfect timing, was wondering what I was going to bake with my 4 year old today! thank you, she will love these! (and so will her daddy and grandpa, she is making them for fathers day!)
I believe that pristine baking equipment is a sin…
I’d make these cookies right now, but they’d just end up in my mouth…..
yummmo
I know the flourless peanut butter cookies and they are superb. Now, why didn’t it occur to me to add the jelly? Can’t wait to give these a try.
Yum, thanks! Can’t wait to try. I recently went gluten free and dairy free so I’m craving sweets and I can have this! Yay! It could also easily be vegan with egg substitutes.
So I made these and followed everything to the letter. The cookies lost their round shape and oozed and flattened until the cookie sheet looked more like a traybake. The jam melted right through to the bottom, so the cookies wound up with holes in them and globs of jam on the baking tray. They taste great, but look a mess and are chewy instead of crumbly. I’m mainly bummed that the jam totally bailed. Any idea where I went wrong? fairly sure oven was at 350, too. But I don’t have an oven thermometer. Could temperature account for this?
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! I cannot wait to taste them (I have a batch in my oven right now). The perfect cookies, who doesn’t have all ingredients always on hand?
Hi Joy. In your recipe, you said to mix the PB with the sugars, plural, but you only have one sugar listed. Is there suppose to be a second sugar (brown perhaps)? Sorry, I am one of those literal people and like to over think things.
Never mind, I found the original source on Google books and it shows enough of the recipe to let me know it is just the white sugar, singular.
I have been looking for a quick, easy cookie to make for my co-workers (they have started a cookie fund so I am obligated to bake for them regularly! ;) ). These little guys are it. You have perfect timing.
I wonder how they would be with a hershey’s kiss stuck in the middle?
seriously yummy.
These look so soooooo good. And easy! Nothing like adding a cup of sugar to your favourite spread. AWESOME.
is it bad to add just plain grape jelly? it’s my favorite pairing with peanut butter! will it bake ok? or should i find some… grape preserves?
i bet grape jelly is a-okay!
Yum! Pb&j is the best combination. i love it on saltine crackers :)
My kids love PB&J. I will definitely have to whip these up for a treat this week. Thanks for the recipe!
Love your list! Rolled in a warm tortilla sounds wonderful. And yes, onion bagels are dreaded. :D Your cookies look cute and scrumptious.
These look so yum and so EASY!!
x
I’ll make these today!!!
Super easy…
I’have done them today!buonissimi!bye bye bikini:)!
thanks for sharing!
Very cool! I too eat PB&Js on a regular basis. Who am I kidding? I eat PB almost everyday. Thanks for this.
Looks like an awesome gluten free, dairy free, soy free cookie for me to make for my daughter!! Bookmaking now!!! Would make them today, but I am low on PB and just post c-section so I can’t drive to the store :-( Maybe hubby will pick some up for me on his way home from work!!
Wow could these cookies be any easier!! I love PBJ in fact I had it this morning on a banana! It’s awesome with honey as well…
I can’t wait to make these I may even be so generous and bake some for work! I added you in a link on my website/diary today, http://tinyurl.com/2f3ctda
I hope you enjoy!
Gina
Thank you, thank you! I have been needing a simple, easy recipe that make really yummy cookies to bring into work when I get caught the night before with a message on my phone saying: “Don’t forget to bring in your home-baked cookies for the reception tomorrow” – oh did I mention I usually get this message at 8pm?
These will be a life-saver! I’ll just remember to keep an extra jar of peanut butter on my shelf and I will be all set!
I love peanut butter and jelly on my pancakes and french toast!
Oh man, I feel like a total oddball…
*whispers*
Me no likey PB&J. I ate jelly sandwiches as a kid. Still do.
But I would inhale an onion bagel (even garlic) every day of my life if I could.
strawberry cream cheese on an everything bagel is uh-maze-zing. trust me on this.
as for the cookies….it is my one way ticket to fat town. i can’t wait to bake this and eat them all.
MMMMM Peanute Butter. Easy and quick. I love it!!! I can see it as an end to a very Americana BBQ for the 4th. Good luck with the Wedding Cake.
Maybe I didn’t do something quite right, but mine didn’t turn out looking as nice as the picture. My jelly foamed up and cooked thru the bottom onto the cookie sheet and then left a hole in the cookie. Did I make the indent too big? hmmm… They taste yummy tho!
booo. i’m sorry. perhaps you made the indent too deep.
I’m going to have to try these! My daughter would love them…. and I’m sure I’d finish off the other half. Thank you!!
These sound awesome! Can’t believe I’ve never seen these before. Will definitely have to try them. I looooove a good PB&J.
Oh man, this is one of my favorite recipes too, but I’ve never put the thumbprint + jam in the cookies! Actually, as much as I like jam, I like nutella more, and I’m thinkin’ that nuts on nuts could be pretty awesome…
Is it bad that whenever I make these flourless peanut butter cookies of yours, I never actually get around to baking any of the dough before it’s all gone?
Gosh, I had a “little” peanut butter freny last week when I baked peanut butter brownies TWICE to a birthday party, then made peanut butter ice cream and chocolate-peanut butter cookies. So kinda tired of peanut butter but your cookies sound really jummy none the less! Gotta try these types of cookies one day
I clipped these…they sound really good. And I just got several jelly samples. This will be a perfect way to try them.
I just made these and had the exact same problems as Freya (68) and Shawna (91). They looked perfect before baking (pretty sure the indentation wasn’t too deep and I held back on the jelly), but then the jelly frothed up, the cookies went flat, and the jelly sank through holes in the dough to the baking sheet. I have an oven thermometer and the temp was exactly right, and I followed the recipe exactly, so I’m not sure what went wrong. They’re still delicious, but can’t be the gift to a wheat-sensitive friend I’d hoped they’d be.
Thank you for posting this recipe! I made these tonight, and used some strawberry jam I made this past weekend, and they turned out absolutely delicious. So incredibly peanut-buttery!
I made these tonight and they were fabaliscious. I didn’t have the problems that some had, but I made mine about tablespoon size, easy on the jam, and just a tiny splash of vanilla. I also used the natural, kind you have to stir PB. They aren’t as cute and petite as yours, but they sure do taste yum. Beauty is overrated anyway, right?
such yumo cookies….my house still smells of them and my hubby loves them! thank you for sharing, they are perfect for my niece who has an allergy to flour.
here are pictures of her making them. she is only 2! a star baker…
http://soulfoodcrazy.blogspot.com/2010/06/family-baking-rocks.html?spref=fb
Hi! I just had to feature them on my Blog, they are so yummy yet so easy to make!