Gluten Free Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

It’s time to get serious. You’re gonna need to make some holiday cookies, or you’re gonna be caught out. Unless someone else is your cookie-baker-extraordinaire, and you’re just here browsing. That’s fine too. As long as somebody is baking cookies, you know? I’m on a bread-baking and cookie-baking bender. I’m busy busy busy baking 300 cookies for gifting. Plus, I’ve got approximately (exactly) 5 buckets of dough in my refrigerator, rising away. I’m getting serious about figuring out how to sub in Ultratex 3 for Expandex in the recipes in my new Gluten Free Bread Book. (Not sure what I’m talking about? Click here for a primer.) Even though I have finally found a very reliable source for Expandex (yay!), those of you outside the United States are in a bit of a spot if you can’t find Expandex at all. So I will solve the Ultratex 3 conversion. I will. I promise. In the meantime, I give you gluten free peanut butter blossom cookies. No holiday cookie plate is complete without them!

These are really just soft peanut butter cookies with something of a thin, crunchy and sugary shell, and then a Hershey’s milk chocolate kiss pressed into the center the very moment they come out of the oven. And if you’re wondering, at least in the U.S., Hershey’s milk chocolate kisses are on their perennial gluten-free list. Can’t use kisses? Try miniature peanut butter cups. Or really any mini chocolate candy.

You can skip the coarse sugar on the outside, but these are not for your after-the-new-year health kick, sister. These are cookies, and we best not mess around. Don’t worry. We’ll make up for it after the new year. I’ve got lots planned.

Hey, Nicole, can you make these without butter? *Try all shortening. You might have to add a bit more milk, though, since shortening doesn’t have the moisture of butter. Try it! Let us know.

Hey, Nicole, can you make these with another nut butter? *Nutella will ruin these in a hurry since it’s so, so soft. But I bet natural almond butter would be a great 1:1 sub. Try it! Let us know.

Hey, friends, be sure to check out the P.S. below. Tomorrow we’re doing another Live Gluten Free Bread Q&A on Facebook to soothe your bread-baking holiday nerves! xo

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