These flourless chocolate peanut butter breakfast cookies are gluten free, grain free, dairy free and can be made refined sugar free, too. They’re packed with protein, and keep you going all morning long!

Baking with peanut butter sometimes yields surprising results. I mean, you can usually expect something crispy and crunchy. But when you don’t add any grains at all (I don’t call something “flourless” if it has, say, almond flour or oat flour in it), and add little more than an egg, some cocoa powder and some baking soda, what you get is truly unexpected: rich-tasting, soft and tender peanut butter chocolate cookies. The chocolate chips are just about gilding the lily. Feel free to leave them off if they make you feel less virtuous first thing in the morning.

Since this is such a simple recipe, each ingredient really really matters—if you want that soft, tender result and a cookie dough that is super easy to handle.

You really must use a no-stir peanut butter (or almond butter), which means the kind of PB that is smooth and silky as soon as you open the jar. If there’s some sort of caveat that says “some separation is natural,” for example, you’ll need something less, well, natural. And measuring the ingredients by weight is essential. When I was developing the recipe, I made a batch with just 1 more tablespoon (only 5 grams more) cocoa powder, and the dough was much, much harder to handle and the cookies baked up with lots of cracks. If you do choose to bake with coconut palm sugar instead of refined light brown sugar, the cookies will be darker and not quite as smooth. But they’ll still be delicious.

But when you make the recipe just as it’s written, it’s so easy to bake up a batch of these amazing flourless chocolate peanut butter breakfast cookies. Right now, I have my freezer stocked with at least 3 dozen and I’ve been serving them to my children before school for breakfast. Sometimes, it’s 2 of these cookies + a Healthy Gluten Free Banana Breakfast Muffin. Sometimes, it’s 3 or 4 of these flourless cookies. No guilt, no worries that they’ll make it through to lunch all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (j/k but still).

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