Delicious, soft peanut butter cookies are topped with Hershey’s Kisses to make a decadent treat. These flourless peanut butter kiss cookies are a holiday favorite!
Imagine it’s a few days before Christmas. The gifts have been wrapped, the tree is decorated, the fire is glowing, and you have your feet up, sipping hot cocoa and eating some flourless peanut butter kiss cookies warm from the oven.
That would be nice, right? The reality may be a little different for you…I know I’m never that organized! We can dream though. :)
We can make one part of that dream a reality though, with these super easy flourless peanut butter kiss cookies.
These peanut butter kiss cookies are SO easy. Really and truly easy and mouth-watering. And you’d never guess that they are flour free! I’ve made these many ways through the years, and they are always a favorite holiday cookie. They can be egg free, too – just use a flax seed egg replacer.
Top Tip
Be sure to line your cookie sheets with parchment paper so that the cookies come off the pan easily.
Ingredient Notes
- Peanut Butter – You can make these with either creamy or crunchy peanut butter. If you would rather use almond butter or a seed butter, that should also be fine.
- Egg – One egg is required if you are making this recipe the traditional way. If you’d like to make an egg free version, you will need flax seed meal to make an egg replacer.
- Chocolate Kisses – Hershey Kisses work well for these cookies, but you could also use squares of a chocolate candy bar, or even a few chocolate chunks.
Nut Free Option
Now that we have peanut and tree nut allergies in our house, we’ve had to learn to make these without peanut butter. If you’re looking for a nut free version of this cookie, try these sunbutter blossom cookies.
Variations
- Leave off the chocolate and use them to make ice cream sandwiches
- Use a square of chocolate instead of a Hershey’s Kiss
- Roll the cookie dough balls in chocolate sprinkles before baking
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Recipe
Flourless Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter I like Jif Natural
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 large egg If you need to be egg free, substitute 1 Tablespoon ground golden flax seed + 3 Tablespoons water
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- granulated sugar for rolling
- 24 Hershey’s Kisses unwrapped
Instructions
- Beat the egg in a mixing bowl. If using a flax egg, mix up your ground flax seed and water in a mixing bowl and let sit for a few minutes so it can gel up.
- Add the creamy peanut butter, sugar, baking soda, and salt to the egg and mix until well combined.
- Chill the dough for about a half hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. Pour a few tablespoons of sugar into a bowl.
- Roll the chilled dough into balls that are one inch in diameter, then dip into granulated sugar, Bake at 350 degrees F for 12-14 minutes, or until cookies are golden.
- When you remove them from the oven, place an unwrapped Hershey’s Kiss into the center of each cookie and press it down. Let cool for about 10 minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer to wire racks to cool.
Nicole
So happy to see this recipe! My mom always made these cookies for the holidays. She was the only person I knew that made these cookies without flour. (That is until I came across this post!) This recipe brought me back to my childhood! Thank you!!!
Katie
Delicious recipe!
Donna
Could I use an egg replacer to make it vegan? Flax seed maybe?
Kelly Roenicke
You could use this recipe – that would work! http://theprettybee.com/2013/10/peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-cookies-vegan-gluten-free.html