Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies (Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free)

Quite possibly my new favorite cookie recipe, these stuffed peanut butter and jelly cookies are sweet, salty, and downright delicious. A soft chewy peanut butter cookie filled with sweet strawberry jelly or jam, you won’t be able to resist going back for a second or even a third helping.

No chill time is needed with these amazing gluten-free dairy-free peanut butter and jelly cookies. Simply mix them, stuff them, bake them, and devour them! Cookies don’t get much easier than that. Better yet, the dough freezes like an absolute dream. Mix up a double, heck, even triple batch and pop any extra straight into the freezer for those last-minute cookie needs. These pb&j cookies are hard to beat!

As always this recipe is gluten-free and dairy-free. That said, I do test each recipe with “regular” ingredients and make notes of alternatives or swaps so that everyone can enjoy it.

• Gluten-Free Flour: Check to see if your blend contains xanthan gum and omit it from the recipe below if it does. Note that gluten-free flour blends can vary in weight so I recommend measuring by the cup. I made these cookies with XO Baking Co. all-purpose flour blend. If you are not gluten-free, swap the flour with regular all-purpose flour and omit the xanthan gum.
• Dairy-Free Butter: I enjoy baking with Becel plant-based bricks but any vegan butter substitute will work. You can also use regular butter if you are not vegan/dairy-free.
• Peanut Butter: I used Kraft smooth peanut butter but any smooth/creamy peanut butter, like Jif or Skippy, will work. Do not use natural peanut butter.
• Jelly/Jam: Both jelly and jam will work for these delicious cookies and in any flavor you prefer. The more solid the consistency the easier the cookies will be to stuff, shape, and seal.

Let’s double-check all our cookie bases to ensure we have the most incredible life-changing gluten-free and dairy-free peanut butter and jelly cookies.

1. Cream the butter & sugar: To create huge bakery-style cookies, creaming the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy is so important. Tiny little microscopic air pockets are being formed, which creates the delicious melt-in-your-mouth texture.
2. Medium cookie scoop: We’re going for giant cookies and that means using a good quality cookie scoop. Use a 1.5-tablespoon cookie scoop to scoop your cookie dough balls. Remember that each cookie is going to use two scoops of dough: one for the bottom and one for the top.
3. Jelly/Jam Filling: Make sure to seal in the edges all around the cookie dough ball when you stuff it with the jelly/jam. If this intimidates you, portion out 13 teaspoon servings of the jam on a parchment paper lined plate and pop it in the freezer for 30 minutes.
4. Don’t overbake the cookies: These gluten-free and dairy-free peanut butter and jelly cookies are gloriously soft because they are ever-so-slightly underbaked when removed from the oven. The heat from the cookie pan will continue to bake these cookies after they come out so don’t worry about them being raw.

Yes! Woohoo! You can absolutely freeze this cookie dough for when that cookie craving hits. I recommend scooping and stuffing each cookie dough ball, freezing them on a tray, and then placing the dough into a large Ziploc freezer bag. This will allow you to pull out however many cookies you desire to bake at any time.

And no need to thaw, simply preheat the oven, pop them in, and bake for approximately 1 minute longer than the time listed below on the recipe card.

Store these perfectly sweet and salty peanut butter and jelly cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 7 days. Likewise, they can be frozen in an airtight container for up to 6 months.

Giant, chewy, and stuffed full of jelly, these sweet and salty peanut butter and jelly cookies will become a weekend baking staple. Gluten-free and dairy-free, pb&j cookies are an absolute delight in every delicious bite.

I would love to know if you make these sensationally stuffed peanut butter and jelly cookies. If you do, tag me on social media @cakedbykatie and leave this recipe a 5-star rating and review below. I can’t wait to see!

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• Key Lime Pie Cookies
• Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Dairy-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Funfetti Sugar Cookies
• Cherry Oatmeal Cookies
• Dairy-Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Gluten-Free Sparkle Cookies
• Gluten-Free & Vegan Coconut Orange Cookies
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