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3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
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3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies are easy to make with peanut butter, an egg, and sugar. They are flour-free and make the most delicious, classic, chewy peanut butter cookies. Enjoy them as is or drizzled with chocolate.
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
Hi Everyone, all you need to make these amazing 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies are: Peanut butter, 1 large egg, and 1 cup of sugar - that's it!
You can swap the peanut butter for any other nut butter too depending on what you have available and your preferences.
These delicious cookies can be eaten any time of the year; they are great for the holidays, cookie sales & cookie swaps as well as making for a quick snack or dessert!
Recipe Process Photos for 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
Gluten-Free
This recipe doesn't have any flour in it, to make sure this is completely gluten-free, just check the label on the type of peanut butter you use.
RECENT: Sriracha Mayonnaise
How Many Cookies Does this 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies Make?
If you use a small cookie scoop (2 teaspoons each amount), you can make a total of 32 cookies (on 2 silicone mat-lined (or use parchment paper) rimmed baking sheets).
Alternately, if you don't have a cookie scoop or don't want to use one, you can just use 2 teaspoons and for small cookie dough balls to form the cookies.
Use a fork to make a criss-cross on top of the dough balls before baking.
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies is a Pandemic Recipe
At the time of my writing this, it is during the Covid-19 pandemic, I love this recipe as a good pandemic recipe because it uses pantry staples like peanut butter and granulated white sugar and only 1 egg. It doesn't require any flour as well and has only a few ingredients and it makes a classic peanut butter cookie recipe!
What are these 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies like?
These 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies are Chewy, delicious, sweet, a touch of savory, and great with chocolate.
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3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
Yield:
32 cookies
Prep Time:
5 minutes
Cook Time:
8 minutes
Total Time:
13 minutes
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies are easy to make with peanut butter, an egg, and sugar. They are flour-free and make the most delicious, classic, chewy peanut butter cookies. Enjoy them as is or drizzled with chocolate.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large mixing bowl, using a handheld electric mixer, add the peanut butter, sugar and egg, mix until combined.
- Using 2 small spoons or a small cookie scoop, scoop dough balls onto a silicone baking mat (or parchment paper) lined rimmed baking sheet. Using a fork, make a criss-cross design on the top to slightly flatten the cookies before baking.
- Bake for 6-8 minutes in your preheated oven or until edges are crispy and golden brown. When they are done, allow them to cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet and then transfer to a wire cooling rack. Enjoy!
Notes
- Storage: Store in an air-tight container, eat up within 3 days.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 17 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 55Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 11mgSodium: 39mgCarbohydrates: 2gFiber: 1gSugar: 0gProtein: 2g
Please note that the Calculated Nutrition is an estimate at best.
- This post was originally published on 5/9/2020 and updated and republished on 10/27/2021, 8/30/2024
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