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Making Groceries: Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies

We’re getting quite specific and trendy here with this week’s edition of Making Groceries.  Any regular reader knows, I have nothing against wheat.  I adore it; I bake with it; I eat it; I love it.

I always will.

This week’s inspiration was not specifically for people with Celiac Disease, although I hope this recipe finds its way into those hands.  I was actually trying to create a very simple cookie.  I read that ground nuts can be considered a flour of sorts, so I figured peanut butter made of only nuts should work just dandy.  I also needed a new peanut butter cookie recipe, because my Mimi’s recipe (written for my dad with ingredients like oleo) needed a few tweaks.

Voila: today’s fabulously simple and perfectly delicious recipe.

Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies

1 c peanut butter (please make your own)
1/2 c white sugar
1/2 c brown sugar
1/2 t vanilla extract
1 egg

1.  Preheat oven to 350°.  Mix all ingredients together until thoroughly combined.

2.  Scoop 1-inch balls.  Place them on a parchment-line baking sheet.  Press down genly with your palm to flatten into a disc.  Use a fork to press into the dough, giving the cookie it’s classic cross-hatch design.  Cookies will not rise, so make sure they look cute.  Sprinkle with a bit extra sugar.

3.  Bake for 15 minutes.  Edges should be slightly browned and firm.  Allow cookie to rest for one minute on baking sheet, then place them on a cooling rack.  Makes 16 cookies.  Enjoy!

The Bottom Line

Buzz words cost big bucks.  The price of any grocery item advertised as gluten -freeis jacked up.  If you need to avoid wheat products, you’ll probably save money and save your body from over-processed foods by simply embracing foods which are naturally gluten-free rather than those fashioned to be so.  You know, like rice.  I urge you to look to global cultures, particularly Asian cuisines for delicious, whole and natural foods.

As far as cost is concerned, these cookies ran me $1.89 to make.  I don’t have a direct comparison, but most gluten-free cookies cost $5.59 for a small package.  That is an insanely expensive price for a single grocery store item.  The effort to make these cookies is so minimal, it’s hardly worth making it a project with kids.  Plop, crack, stir and they’re done.

That being said, these cookies are yummy.  They are simple and honest and feel quite old-fashioned despite their current trendiess.  Paring down food to it’s simplest form is a modern act of integrity.  We should not eat what we do not need.  These yummy cookies aren’t missing a thing.

It’s crazy that we live in a world where cookies need to be classified as honest, but here we are.  Please enjoy something so simple it tastes of earth and my grandmother’s old recipe in one bite.

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