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These Peanut Butter Sprinkle Cookies are easy, with only 6 ingredients. And they’re gluten free peanut butter cookies too! Why should sugar cookies have all the fun? Roll your peanut butter cookies in sprinkles too!

stack of 3 cookies coated in rainbow sprinkles.


Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut butter cookies are my favorite cookie, but they can be a little booooring. Why not make them about a gazillion times prettier by rolling them in sprinkles?

Plus – when you’re decorating sprinkle cookies you can use ANY color sprinkles. I love rainbow jimmies but you can decorate these for the 4th of July, Christmas, or any holiday.

These are gluten free cookies too – no flour and no gluten – so they’re the perfect cookie recipe to have on hand just in case.

Ingredients Needed

  • Peanut Butter: I love using Skippy Naturals. It’s a no stir peanut butter that’s more natural than it’s regular counterpart. Most mainstream brands have a naturals line these days. You can use your favorite peanut butter.
  • Sugars: I love a combination of Granulated Sugar and Brown Sugar in these cookies. Traditionally, 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies only have one or the other but I love a combo.
  • Egg: Just one egg binds it all together.
  • Sprinkles: the sprinkles I use (Cake Mate brand, under the Betty Crocker umbrella) are considered gluten-free. If you’re concerned, be sure to google your favorite sprinkles.
stack of 4 cookies with red white and blue sprinkles.

How to make gluten free peanut butter cookies

  1. Stir egg, sugars, baking soda, and peanut butter in a large bowl.
  2. Scoop 1 tablespoon balls of cookie dough and roll them in sprinkles.
  3. Place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment or silicone baking mats and bake in an oven preheated to 350°F for 8-12 minutes.

These cookies come together with one bowl, no chilling time, and you can stir them by hand. Like I said – magical. These are my FAVORITE peanut butter cookies. They’ll be yours too, I’m sure!

stack of 4 cookies coated in rainbow sprinkles with one cut in half on top.

Tip From Dorothy

Expert Tips

  • The dough is sticky, so rolling them in sprinkles is a messy process, but worth it. Once you bake them the sprinkles add a little crunch that makes them SO good!
  • You can store these in an airtight container for a few days on the counter, or freeze them. They’re perfect for making ahead of time if you’re as busy as I am this summer. (Seriously, summer is busier than the school year!)
  • Be sure to double check that your sprinkles are gluten free – some brands aren’t.
  • You know your cookies are done baking when they’ve lost their glossy sheen.
  • You can freeze these for up to 3 months. They’ll last on the counter in an airtight container for up to 4 days.

FAQs

Why are my 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies falling apart?

Gluten free cookies are falling apart because they have less liquid and fat. I think that adding some brown sugar in addition to the granulated sugar helps this because brown sugar has more moisture. The sprinkles also help hold these together.

Can you freeze gluten free peanut butter cookies?

You can freeze these for up to 3 months. They’ll last on the counter in an airtight container for up to 4 days.

stack of 3 cookies coated in rainbow sprinkles.

Gluten Free Peanut Butter Sprinkle Cookies Recipe

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A simple, gluten-free peanut butter cookie rolled in sprinkles! Jazz them up for any holiday!
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Yield 24 cookies
Serving Size 1 cookie
Diet: Gluten Free

Ingredients
 

  • 1 cup (268g) peanut butter (use a no stir peanut butter)
  • 1 large egg
  • ½ cup (100g) packed brown sugar
  • ½ cup (100g) granulated sugar
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • cups rainbow sprinkles (or any color)
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Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two cookie sheets with Silpats or parchment paper.
  • Stir peanut butter, egg, sugars, and baking soda together in a large bowl. You can use a wooden spoon or a hand mixer.
  • Place your sprinkles in a shallow bowl.
  • Scoop balls of cookie dough and roll them in the sprinkles, coating completely. I used a 1 tablespoon cookie scoop for this step. The dough is very sticky and it helps to dampen your hands slightly before rolling. Place each cookie dough ball 2” apart on the prepared cookie sheets and flatten slightly with the palm of your hand.
  • Bake for 8-12 minutes. Cool before removing from cookie sheets. Note: these cookies can be crumbly so be careful when picking them up or packing them in lunches.

Recipe Notes

  • The dough is sticky, so rolling them in sprinkles is a messy process, but worth it. 
  • You can store these in an airtight container for a few days on the counter, or freeze them. 
  • Be sure to double check that your springles are gluten free – some brands aren’t.
  • You know your cookies are done baking when they’ve lost their glossy sheen.
  • You can freeze these for up to 3 months. They’ll last on the counter in an airtight container for up to 4 days.

Recipe Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 143kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.001g | Cholesterol: 8mg | Sodium: 73mg | Potassium: 70mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 11IU | Calcium: 10mg | Iron: 0.3mg
Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate
Course Dessert
Cuisine American

Favorite Peanut Butter Cookies

Last Updated on May 30, 2023



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33 Comments

  1. Ahhhh!! These look amazing!! Oh man!! I want to make them!! …and they’re gluten free!?!! I’m gluten free! Perfect!! YUM! And that bark looks AMAZING!!! I’m about to go checkout the recipe! 🙂

  2. Clueless why I overbook the summer every year too! I dream of lazy summer days too…I have to try harder to make them exist too.

    BUT, it will very easy for me to make these pnut butter cookies happen very soon! Lovely…

  3. I love that you used a flourless PB base for these (I love that base…sometimes I use all brown sugar, sometimes half white/half brown). They always turn out so good but sprinkles, genius! I have never done that – only choc chips, white chips, etc. Pinned!

  4. Oh yeah, attention spans are like 0 now! cuhraaazy! I love how festively you dressed up these yummy pb cookies! 😀

  5. So festive!! I’d read once that peanut butter is one of the few truly American foods, so it seems quite fitting to make 4th of July peanut butter cookies! I’m intrigued by the flourless-ness of these cookies – can’t wait to give them a try 🙂

  6. Only 6 ingredients, gluten free, and lots of peanut butter? Totally obsessed with these ones! Especially all those sprinkles! I love the fun Fourth of July decorating going on too 🙂 Pinning!

  7. What a festive cookie for the 4th of July! And even better that it’s peanut butter!

  8. Those look delicious! I love peanut butter cookies, but everything tastes better with sprinkles. 🙂