Friday, February 17, 2012

Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies


These flourless, 3 ingredient cookies (4 if you include the Kiss) were the perfect thing for my cookie craving one day when I was running low on all purpose flour (why I had little flour and a whole bag of Hershey's Kisses I may never fully understand). It's incredibly easy to substitute the sugar with Splenda or another sugar replacement for a lower calorie count–about 50 calories less per cookie. Yup. I did the math.

This recipe makes approximately 18 cookies

You will need:
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 cup sugar (or Splenda)
  • 1 egg
  • 18 Hershey's Kisses

  1. Preheat oven to 350F
  2. Beat sugar, peanut butter, and egg until fully incorporated. Here's a helpful tip for measuring peanut butter. Use a 2 cup measuring cup and fill it with one cup of water. Add peanut butter until the water line moves up to 2 cups. Now you can scoop out your peanut butter without having a sticky measuring cup!
  3. Roll your dough into 1" balls and place on ungreased baking sheet
  4. Bake for 10 minutes
  5. While cookies are baking, unwrap one Hershey Kiss per cookie and place to the side
  6. After the cookies are taken out of the oven, promptly and gently press a kiss into each cookie
  7. Let cool completely before eating. The kisses may remain melty and gooey (yum!) for several hours, so if you want cooled candy make sure you make the cookies at least 6 hours in advance.

Enjoy this delicious treat and try not to eat them all in one sitting!

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