You may recognize this flour-free Oatmeal Gluten-Free Cookie Recipe from on the back of Trader Joe’s Oatmeal package. This no-fail peanut butter chocolate chip cookie turns out every time! It’s one of my all-time favorite cookies and is so easy to make!
Flour Free Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Gluten-Free Cookie Recipe
I love that these cookies are flour-free and so easy to make. Although they still have sugar, they feel a bit more healthy and guilt-free.
They are chewy with enough crispiness around the edges. Dare I say they are the perfect cookie? Perfect for dunking in your coffee.
Trader Joe’s oatmeal has been one of my favorite brands for years. It’s high quality and doesn’t cook up mushy like so many others. My other favorite is Snoqualmie Falls. You’ll never go back to any other brand after trying these two.
I always check the back of the packaging for recipes and not always are they a keeper, but these are!
How to Make Gluten-Free Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients Needed:
- Rolled Oats – not instant
- Brown Sugar
- White Granulated Sugar
- Butter
- Nut Butter – I used peanut butter
- Eggs
- Vanilla
- Baking soda
- Nuts
- Chocolate Chips – Other flavored chips like butterscotch or white chocolate are equally delicious.
Other Cookie Making Items Needed”
- Cookie Sheet
- Cooling Rack
- Mixing Bowl
- Measuring Spoons and Cups
- Wooden Spoon
- Mixer – optional
Gluten Free Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Yield: 24Prep Time: 15 minutesCook Time: 10 minutesTotal Time: 25 minutesThis flour-free, gluten-free oatmeal cookie with peanut butter and chocolate chips will soon be your favorite.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 cups sugar
- 3 cups Trader Joes Rolled Oats (Just a hunch, but I bet other rolled oats would work)
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 c. chocolate chips
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sunflower or chopped walnuts (optional)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup peanut butter (or any nut butter)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, combine sugar, brown sugar and butter and beat until creamy.
- Add eggs, vanilla and baking soda and mix well.
- Add peanut butter and mix.
- Stir in oats, chocolate chips and nuts.
- Place teaspoon full of dough on a lightly greased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
- Bake 10-12 minutes until lightly brown around the edges.
Notes
- Substitute peanut butter for any nut butter.
- Omit nuts if desired
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 222Total Fat: 12gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 21mgSodium: 141mgCarbohydrates: 26gFiber: 2gSugar: 17gProtein: 5gWe do our best to calculate, however, nutrition information may not be accurate.
Substitutes for Gluten-Free Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut Butter Substitution
Any nut butter will do great. Try almond butter, sunflower butter, cashew butter.
Chocolate Chips Substitution
- Use butterscotch chips, white chocolate or peanut butter chips.
- Sweetened carob chips.
- Chopped up chocolate bar
- Use cocoa nibs for a healthier version. “Cacao is unprocessed chocolate — it contains no sugar, very little fat, and lots of antioxidants. Cacao nibs can completely replace chocolate chips in any recipe!”
Sugar Substitution
This chart is a great guide for how to substitute sugar with Maple syrup, Agave, Honey and more.
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Sherri says
Amy,
How do the Gluten free Oatmeal, Pnut Butter, Chocolate Chip Cookies Freeze?
I like to bake ahead and take desserts out when needed.
Thank you, Sherri
Kim says
Hi Sherri, Kim here. I have never tried to freeze them, but I’m sure you could freeze like any other cookie. You could freeze the dough or the baked cookies just fine. The general rule is to use them before 6mo.
sue @ cakeballs. cookies and more says
Yum, gluten free things are getting better every day!
Shiloh says
How cool! It’s tough to find a good cookie recipe that has absolutely no flour, not even rice or GF mix. This is great:)
Debi says
And yes, Melanie, some celiac people can’t tolerate oats at all- GF or run-of-the mill. True that- but at least having the uncontaminated version to try will allow some people to enjoy them. I have a study here in my files that measured the satiety of a gluten free diet that includes oats, v. one that doesn’t. Oats were found to add a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction for people eating gluten free, and the study even suggested that they were less tempted to venture outside the safe GF zone if they had the chewiness of the oats to fill that gap. (The study was probably funded by the GF Oats Lobby 🙂 Ha!)
Debi says
Thankfully, Trader Joe’s now carries “Gluten Free Oats”. Now, what in tarnation could be the difference between GF oats and REGULAR oats? Well, oats are by nature gluten free. However, not all people with celiac and gluten sensitivities can tolerate them. Why? Because of the way these gluten free oats are grown and processed. Farming practice dictates that oats and wheat are grown in rotation- that is, one year, the field will be planted with wheat, and the next it will be planted with oats. Just the fact that the oat field alternates space with wheat is enough to cross-contaminate those lovely oats; gluten free oats have to be grown in specially isolated fields, harvested and transported in machinery and trucks that have never been in contact with wheat or barley or rye, and processed and packled in certified gluten free processing plants. So, class, that’s the difference between run-of-the-mill (pun intended) oats and gluten free (and more expensive!) oats. Hope this helps with the confusion- and thank you, Miss Kim, for posting a gluten free recipe! Hope your trip is going well 🙂 Debi
Melanie Gray Augustin says
Thanks for that! I’ve been rather confused. It’s funny, here in Australia anything with oats has a blanket ban for coeliacs and I’ve never seen gf oats here. It would be lovely to add them back into my diet. I’ll have to see if I can get some, we do have a few online stores that sell American foods.
amy says
In my mind the best thing about a kitchen aid mixer is using it to shred chicken breasts! I have to ask though…….did you get a fun color? Mine is an apple green that I love!
Kim says
oooh, Apple Green would be fun! Mine is white……plain white. But I either wanted the stainless steal or white. That way when my fickle decorating personality changes, it will always go with it.
teresa says
These look delicious Kim!
I really want one!
Hugs from Bainbridge!
xo
Melanie Gray Augustin says
They sound delicious!
I do have to ask though… is Trader Joes saying that oats are gluten free? Even though there is some debate over it, in Australia, for coeliacs, oats are considered not to be gluten free.
Melanie Gray Augustin says
Sorry, just did a search… apparently oats are technically gf but 1 in 5 coeliacs also have an intolerance to oats and have a gluten-like reaction to them. I fall in that 20% that can’t eat them 🙁
Kim says
Yes, they say Gluten Free on the package and list the recipe as Gluten free. Thanks for the info. Hope you’re doing well!
nancy says
Thnaks for the recipe!. My daughter has been diagnosed celiac recently at 26 and it is not easy! I am trying to change our family recipes to gluten free but oatmeal cookiea are her fav , so I will try yours!
~Nancy
Taryn @ Design, Dining + Diapers says
Oh these look delicious! I’ll have to try them, I’m GF 🙂