Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies (2024)

These Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies are easy, healthy cookies with a delicious peanut butter chocolate flavor.

Plus, this recipe is low-carb, gluten-free, flourless, and comes with a vegan option!

Do you love peanut butter and chocolate?

Everyone loves that powerful combo, right? Even your most intense chocolate craving doesn’t stand a chance against those moist Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies.

Whip them in 5 minutes with only 6 ingredients and satisfy your next chocolate sweet cravings without the guilt!

How To Make Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

This is a very easy 6-ingredient keto cookie recipe for all chocolate lovers.

Ingredients

All you need to make this recipe are:

• Peanut butter – It is very important to use a fresh jar of natural peanut butter, drippy, and runny with oil on top. If your peanut butter has been opened for a while, it may be dry and create very dry cookies. If you don’t have peanut butter but you do have peanuts, you can make your own natural peanut butter.
• Maple Syrup – this recipe can be made with regular maple syrup or with sugar-free maple syrup. You can’t use crystal sweeteners like sugar or erythritol, or the cookies will be crumbly.
• Egg – or a flaxseed egg for a vegan alternative.
• Coconut Oil or Melted Butter – pick the former for a vegan alternative.
• Unsweetened Cocoa Powder – or regular cocoa powder if you don’t mind the carbs.
• Vanilla – (optional)
• Salt – optional
• Chocolate Chips – or sugar-free chocolate chips if you are on a low-carb diet.

Instructions

Making these cookies is incredibly easy, it only takes about 5 minutes of preparation.

Start by combining the wet ingredients in a large mixing bowl: peanut butter, melted butter, beaten egg, and maple syrup.

Then incorporate the cocoa powder, baking soda, and chocolate chips until the batter is consistent.

Form a large cookie dough ball and line a baking sheet with a lightly oiled piece of parchment paper.

Form 12 cookies from the dough ball and place them evenly spaced on the baking sheet.

Press them with your hand to form round cookies.

Bake the flourless chocolate peanut butter cookies for 10 to 12 minutes in an oven preheated to 350°F (180°C).

Then let the cookies cool down for about 15 minutes on a cooling rack.

Storage

You can store your chocolate peanut butter cookies for up to 2 weeks in a cookie jar at room temperature.

It’s also possible to freeze them, but you’re unlikely to have any left after two weeks, so you probably won’t have to!

Allergy Swaps

You can swap the following ingredients to match your dietary requirements:

• Peanut Butter – replace it with fresh, smooth almond butter or sunflower seed butter.
• Butter – replace the butter with either vegan butter, or melted coconut oil.
• Egg – use a flaxseed egg instead of the regular egg.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use almond butter in this recipe?

Peanut butter works the best as it is more oily than almond butter.

If you want to use almond butter, you may have to add more coconut oil to prevent the cookies from getting dry.

How Many Carbs In These Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies?

If you made these cookies with sugar-free maple syrup, unsweetened cocoa powder, and sugar-free chocolate chips, then each cookie contains only 5.6 grams of carbs.

Otherwise, they contain about 20 grams of net carbs.

About The Author

Carine Claudepierre

Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook and many ebooks, and founder of Sweet As Honey.

I have an Accredited Certificate in Nutrition and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Well College Global (formerly Cadence Health). I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.

I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet

Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!

All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.

Browse all my recipes with my Recipe Index.

I hope that you too find the recipes you love on Sweet As Honey!