Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
By: Carlo Powe-Crawford
Published: Monday, March 29, 2010 - 12:22am

Ingredients




1/4 cup butter-flavored shortening
1 cup and ¼  packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup white rice flour
1/2 cup potato starch
1/4 cup tapioca flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
48 Hershey's milk chocolate or dark chocolate kisses

Preparation

1 Preheat oven to 375 degrees. 2 In a large bowl, cream the shortening, brown sugar and peanut butter until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, applesauce and vanilla extract (mixture will look curdled). Combine the rice flour, potato starch, tapioca flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour. 3 Roll dough into i inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on non-greased baking sheets. Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until slightly cracked. 4 Immediately press a chocolate kiss into the center of each cookie. Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

About


This cookie recipe doesn't taste gluten-free. These gluten-free cookies are tried, tested and taste truly really, really good. In fact they're just as good as (if not better than) their original, non-gluten free predecessors. They're sweet, tasty, and delicious. I hope that you enjoy them!

Comments:
Hayley

These are amazing, and you saved my life. I absolutely love peanut butter cookies, but since I became gluten free I didn't know if I could do it. These are just amazing and now i'm happy as could be.
Hayley

These are amazing, and you saved my life. I absolutely love peanut butter cookies, but since I became gluten free I didn't know if I could do it. These are just amazing and now i'm happy as could be.
Chef Fergie

I am a gluten-free eater and love a great tasting gluten free cookie recipe! Thanks so much for posting this, but could you please include how much peanut butter should be in this peanut butter cookie recipe? I can't wait to play with it.
AJF

3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
Carlo

Please forgive me... I just saw this. My email box is a mess. Running a catering and event planning business leaves me very little time for much else. And again, I apologize to you, profusely.
The amount of peanut butter called for in this recipe is 3/4 cup. 
Again, I'm sorry. 
Blessings to you!