These Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Blondies stay soft and chewy for days! They’re refined sugar-free with a vegan option and will satisfy all your chocolate peanut butter cravings.

How was your Valentine’s Day? Whether you’re in a relationship or not, I sincerely hope you snacked on delicious food and at least some chocolate during the day. I spent the morning making way more croissants than three girls could eat, but we tried anyway.
It was nice to finally cross croissants off my bucket list. They’d been on it for years, and I was like a proud momma as I pulled my beautifully puffed, browned, beautiful croissants from the oven. I made tons of flavors because I had tons of dough and had to use all of it.

After a morning of rolling, measuring, cutting, shaping, and proofing, my kitchen was full of plain, chocolate, ham & cheese, pesto & cheese, and raspberry & chocolate croissants. Most of them, even the chocolate, got a sprinkle of Maldon sea salt. It was perfect, but then I proceed to eat three too many, because I had to try all the flavors. And then I felt sick, but it was SO worth every bite of flaky croissant.
Even though they were totally incredible, I don’t know how often homemade croissants will show up on my table. When I want a croissant, I want it now and the three day dough process doesn’t satisfy my need for immediate satisfaction. Except for the rare special occasion, I’ll leave the croissant making to Bakery Nouveau – the best croissants I’ve ever bought and conveniently located on my street.

Now…for the quick-to-make Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Blondies!
Something that does give immediate satisfaction and definitely takes a whole lot less time than three days to make? These Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Blondies! These blondies are out of the oven within a half-hour of getting started! And who doesn’t love warm blondies? :)
These blondies are delightfully peanut buttery, not overly sweet, with just enough chocolate to keep things interesting. The recipe is gluten-free and refined sugar-free, too! You can, of course, use chocolate chips, but I recommend chopping your own chocolate. If you want to keep these refined sugar free, make your own refined sugar free chocolate chunks!

These bars lasted four days in my house, and they stayed super soft and chewy the whole time. This recipe is definitely a keeper – enjoy!
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Blondies
Ingredients
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
- ⅔ cup coconut sugar
- 1 large egg, or flax egg to keep vegan (for flax egg, whisk together 1 tablespoon flax meal with 2.5 tablespoons water. Let gel for 10 minutes before using)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup blanched almond flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 4 oz. dark chocolate chunks, use paleo chocolate chunks to keep refined sugar free
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line an 8x8” square baking pan with parchment paper and spray with nonstick spray. Set aside.
- In a bowl, whisk together the peanut butter, coconut oil, coconut sugar, egg, and vanilla extract until smooth and combined. Stir in the almond flour, baking soda, and salt. Fold in the chocolate chunks.
- Spread evenly in prepared pan and bake for about 20 minutes, or until lightly browned.
- Cool completely, and then cut into 16 squares. Store in an airtight container.

You had me at peanut butter + chocolate! I’m not so sure I would have any control around these bars!!
I’m all about the peanut butter this week, these are singing to me! Love the addition of almond flour! Take care.
Aaaah croissants are totally my weakness, sounds like such a fun gal-entine’s day! Love the looks of these blondies, I would never ever have guessed they are gluten free and refined sugar free!
Croissants are my weakness too!! Thanks so much, Denise!
Ermagherd… I am obsessed with blondies! I have to admit, I wasn’t always a fan of PB with Chocolate (I know, I’m an idiot). But about 3 years ago, the light bulb finally went off and now I’m totally on board. So basically, I need this in my life immediately!
Chocolate + peanut butter is my absolute fave! Glad you’ve joined the chocolate/PB team :) thanks, Chris!
Made these the other day after looking for a “healthyish” dessert to bring to a party and they turned out amazing! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe.
I’m so glad you enjoyed them, Morgan!
mmmm my mouth is totally watering-I love how chewy and gooey and perfect these blondies look and the fact that they’re gf and refined sugar free is BLOWING MY DANGED MIND!
Hi, is almond flour and almond meal the same? Can I use almond meal for this Blondie recipe?
Hi Marianne, it’s typically the same, but almond flour is usually ground a bit finer. As long as your almond meal is pretty fine and smooth, it should be just fine to substitute almond meal in. Enjoy!
Hi, I have a friend who is allergic to eggs and gluten… these look delicious! Is there an acceptable egg substitute you’d recommend?
Thanks!
Hi Jen! I haven’t tried it in this recipe specifically so I can’t make any guarantees, but I’d recommend using a flax egg. Enjoy!
Thanks! I realized I only had the ground flaxseed which isn’t recommended for flax egg replacement so I tried the Chia egg recipe (1 T chia seeds, 3 T hot water) and it worked. I’ll admit that the bars were very crumbly but with slight undercooking and careful cutting I was able to keep them in a bar shape. And they tasted lovely, with the nice crunch of chia seeds to enjoy also! Great for my friend with gluten and egg allergy!
I absolutely love your recipes! I was thinking about making this one:) can I sub the almond flour for regular GF flour? Do you think that will work? Thanks xx
Hi Valerie, I haven’t tried it but it should be okay. Let me know how it turns out if you try it!
These are AMAZING and went very quickly! People were requesting a second batch as they were eating them. Thanks for the recipe :)
So thrilled that they were a hit, Shelby! :)