This week I'm sharing a wheat free cookie recipe.
Notice that I'm not saying saying dairy free this week. There are two items that I still use and one of them is butter. There is just no super substitute for real butter in baking. My mom uses Imperial margarine and it works, but I just can't bring myself to use it. There is also dairy in the chocolate. My body and I have an understanding, I am not giving up chocolate! I am willing to use olive oil and/or fake sour cream, fake cheese, etc.. on my baked potato, but I will never put fake chocolate in my cookies. End. Of. Story.
Let's make these delicious Wheat Free Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies that I adapted from a recipe on Allrecipes.com!
Here are the ingredients you will need:
11/2 cups Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free All Purpose Baking Flour
3/4 cup rolled oats
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 cube butter
1/4 cup honey
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
chocolate chips - as many as your heart desires!
Mix flour, oats, baking soda, in a medium bowl. Set aside.
Using an electric mixer (or a super nice Kitchen Aid mixer that you got from a great blogging buddy and all around good friend) beat peanut butter and butter.
Side Note: I LOVE Adams Peanut Butter, it's my favorite peanut butter to eat. What I don't like about it is this:
The separation! All the oil on top is so hard to mix together with the hard peanutty part.
But just look at all those yummy peanuts!!
Okay... Back to the recipe. Here is what the peanut butter and butter mixture looks like all mixed up.
Add brown sugar, honey, egg and vanilla and mix.
Add flour mixture and mix again.
Mix in chocolate chips.
Drop approximately 1TBSP size amount of dough on to a cookie sheet.
Bake for 12 minutes in a pre-heated 350 oven or until tops start browning.
Cool on a rack. Eat and enjoy!
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Last night we (the whole family) went to the Pub for dinner and I stayed wheat free there. I was the only one who had an Irish meal.
Star Wars son ordered the Plain Jane burger, but he ordered it even plainer... nothing on it.
We ran into a familiar face! Of course Dancing Daughter and I just had to have a picture with this Pub celebrity!
(Photos by asthmagirl, TOG and me using her camera, mine was safely at home sitting on the table where I accidently left it.)
Looks delicious!
Can you email your address so I can randomly send you some crappy...I mean, crafty homemade item? [email protected]
Posted by: Meg | March 18, 2009 at 07:04 AM
I am so glad I had to scroll to read/see the whole recipe because I gained weight on the way ... looks so good ... now if I could get someone to make it for me .. and a lovely photo of you, your pretty daughter and AG! What a nice surprise
Posted by: Daryl | March 18, 2009 at 07:05 AM
Lovely phot of all of you guys!
Posted by: deb | March 18, 2009 at 07:44 AM
Hi! I came over from Asthmagirl and oh my, food photos! I drooled. Like you, I gotta have real chocolate when cooking (or eating). Your cookies look delicious. I will definitely be back! And your pizza stone? looks like mine!
Sally T.
Posted by: Sally T. | March 18, 2009 at 09:31 AM
Yum. Yum. And, yum.
Posted by: Mental P Mama | March 18, 2009 at 11:42 AM
That crunchy PB is just yummy looking. So glad there is a cookie you can enjoy!
Posted by: noble pig | March 18, 2009 at 11:49 AM
I got all excited when I read 'wheat-free' and had that dashed when I saw the oats because I suddenly realized it wasn't gluten-free. Ah well - it can be done if you buy the special oats - I just can't bring myself to try them because I'm too afraid of them.
I know there are plenty of gluten-free cookies around somewhere...
Posted by: aims | March 20, 2009 at 04:24 PM
Hi aims, thanks for stopping by. Sorry about the gluten. By problem is with wheat only, I don't have a gluten allergy. You can by all means make these cookies without the oatmeal, they will still be delicious.
Posted by: imom | March 20, 2009 at 08:44 PM