The best peanut butter cookies EVER!

As you may, or may not know, I have recently gone gluten free to see if it would resolve some health issues that I have. So far it is going really well and I have been able to try several different recipes. The best one by far are these peanut butter cookies. These are good for "normal" peanut butter cookies, You would never guess that they are gluten free. You have to make these, but I will warn you, you are going to have to take some to the neighbors, or you're going to have to spend some heavy time at the gym, because they are DEADLY!

Note: if you are cooking for someone with a nut allergy you can substitute sun butter for the peanut butter. Sun butter is made from sunflower seeds, and by what I have read works like peanuts. I have not tried this myself, but it should work.

Ingredients:
1 cup creamy peanut butter (or sun butter)
1 cup granulated sugar, plus some for rolling the cookies in
1 egg slightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking powder


Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicon baking sheets.

In a large bowl mix peanut butter with 1 cup of sugar. Stir until well blended. Add the egg, baking powder, and vanilla. Stir well.  Pour additional sugar into a small bowl, measure out 1 Tablespoon of dough and roll into a ball. Roll the ball in the sugar and place on the cookie sheet. Repeat with the rest of the dough

Take a fork, stick it in the sugar and gently press down each cookie to flatten, then turn the fork 90 degrees and press again. Do so on all of the cookies, dipping in sugar occasionally to keep the fork from sticking.

Bake for 10 minutes. Take them out and let them cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes or so. Gently transfer the cookies to a cooling rack to finish cooling.

Servings:


Makes 24 cookies.

I hope you enjoy these as much as we did.  By the time I got my camera to take pictures of the finished project there were only 13 left! ;) 

~Krystin