Fluffy peanut butter cookies with a chocolate surprise

The recipe is based on this brilliant recipe that popped up on my Tumblr feed and I decided to make a gluten free version of it because my youngest son is a huge, huge fan of peanut butter. And of chocolate sprinkles. I fear that slight addiction is all my fault, because when I was pregnant with my youngest son I suddenly developed a craving for peanut butter & chocolate sprinkles sandwiches. When I was pregnant with my first I ate tons of olives. Guess what he loves? Yeah...

Anyway, I decided to add a little twist to the recipe and hid a chocolate button in the centre of each cookie. That way my youngest had cookie that combined his favorite sandwich toppings: peanut butter & chocolate. In the next batch I'm putting in a bit more, because the balance isn't quite right yet. There isn't enough chocolate in the cookie. So f you make it, pout in a bigger chunk of chocolate & you'll be very pleased with the end result! 

Here's how mine turned out:

See, not enough chocolate. but delicious all the same!

This recipe makes about 25 medium cookies.

Ingredients: 

• 125 grams (4.5 oz) of peanut butter 
• 100 grams (3.5 oz) of butter
• 200 grams (7 oz) of raw cane sugar
• 2 eggs
• 15 grams (0.5 oz) of vanilla sugar
• 300 grams (10.5 oz) of gluten free rice flour
• 1 teaspoon of cream of tartar
• 2 teaspoons of xanthan gum
• some raw can sugar to coat the cookies with

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 175 degrees centigrade/350 degrees fahrenheit. Using an electric mixer, cream peanut butter and butter in a mixing bowl until it's smooth. Add the raw cane sugar; beat it until it is fully combined. Add the eggs and vanilla sugar, and continue beating until creamy.
2. First sift your flour in a separate bowl so it will be light & airy, sift the baking powder and xanthan gum as well. The xanthan gum is needed so your cookies won't crumble. Then whisk together the flour, baking powder & xanthan gum. Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter, sugar & peanut butter mixture, beating on low speed.
3. Prepare baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper or lightly greased aluminum foil. Place raw cane sugar on a plate. Roll (table) spoonfuls of cookie dough into balls, press a chocolate button or chunk in the middle and then roll each ball between your hands. Roll balls in sugar to coat them completely.
4. Place cookie balls 3 cm / 2 inches apart on a prepared baking sheet. Bake until cookies begin to puff up slightly, about 12-15 minutes, until cookies just brown around the edges and crackle on top. Remove from oven and let the cookies cool at least 10 minutes on baking sheet before transferring cookies to rack to cool completely.

Enjoy!

Dead simple peanut butter cookies

A friend of mine send me this recipe and it is too good not to share! It's wonderful whether you are glutenfree or not and it is dead simple. Anybody can make these, even if you are challenged in the baking department.There is only one but... you have to love peanut butter. If you don't? Please check out some of the other recipes i posted here. 

Ingredients:
1 cup (266 grams) of peanut butter 
1 cup (136 grams) of sugar 
1 large egg, beaten 
1 teaspoon baking soda 
1 teaspoon of xanthan gum ( i use this because the cookies tend to break easily as no flour is used that usually adds to a better consistency and this makes them a bit more firm)

Directions: 
1 Preheat oven to 350* and grease cookie sheets. 
2 Beat together peanut butter, the xanthan gum and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. 
3 Add beaten egg and baking soda to peanut butter mixture and beat until well combined. 
4 Roll 1 teaspoon of dough into a ball and place on cookie sheet. 
5 Place dough balls one inch apart on cookie sheet and flatten with tines of fork making a cross pattern. 
6 Bake until puffed and a golden pale, about 10 minutes. 
7 Cool cookies on baking sheet about 2 minutes and then transfer with spatula to rack to cool. 8 May be kept in air tight container at room temperature for 5 days. 
9 Makes about 2 dozen cookies.

Enjoy! 

Ps. I think if you melted a bit of chocolate and dipped them in it and let them cool you'd have very yummy and luxurious cookie to serve when you have friends over...