Healthier Homemade Nutter Butter Cookies Recipe
Easy and delicious Nutter Butter Cookies. These crunchy cookie sandwiches feature a creamy peanut butter filling sweetened with maple syrup and gluten-free cookie dough. The ultimate treat for kids and adults—and much healthier!
Servings: 12 servings
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter + more to fill look for a nut butter with no added ingredients, ideally only peanuts, and maybe salt!
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 3/4 cup fine oat flour sift for fine texture and best results
- optional
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350F while you prepare the cookies
- In a large bowl, sift oat flour and combine with peanut butter and maple syrup. Stir with spatula until combined and smooth, a dough should form that pulls away from the sides of the bowls, and be workable with your hands.
- Scoop 1 tsp sized balls of dough, and use 2 to create a peanut shape. Press down onto lined baking sheet, making sure two pieces are connected and score with a fork to create a hatch pattern if desired.
- Bake for 9 - 12 minutes, or until lightly golden brown and allow to cool fully before filling. Cookies will firm up significantly once cooled, so don't be alarmed if they seem softer at first. Mine were done at exactly 10 minutes.
- If desired, sandwich a spoonful of peanut butter between two cookies. Enjoy!
Notes
Expert Tips
- The only real note I have for you is to consider the weather when filling them. I'd reserve the peanut butter filling until you're about to eat, especially if the weather is warm, because things can get a little melty and messy otherwise. Or--refrigerate/freeze your treats to avoid the mess!