Gluten-Free Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies (2 ways)

Gluten-Free Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies

Makes 12 cookies or 6 sandwiches

Ingredients

• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup any desired jelly or jam

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. 
2. Combine peanut butter and sugar in a bowl and blend with a stand or hand mixer until well combined. Add vanilla and egg and continue to blend using the hand mixer.
3. To make sandwich cookies, roll a TBSP of dough in your hand and place on parchment lined cookie sheet.  Roll the back side of a fork in a small pile of sugar.  Press the back side of the fork into the cookie twice in opposing directions to create a cross-hatch pattern.  Bake for 8 minutes.



Gluten-Free Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies

4. To make the thumbprint cookies, roll a TBSP of dough in your hand and place on parchment lined cookie sheet.  Use your thumb to press an indent into the center of the cookie.  Place 1/2 tsp of jelly in the center.  Bake for 8 minutes.

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