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These 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies might be just the answer you’re looking for.

What family doesn’t love to have a batch of fresh cookies sitting on the counter? If you are a busy working parent like we are, chances are there’s little time for such luxuries from your kitchen.

 

3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies are so easy to make and you can have a plate of them in front of you in just a few minutes!

You’ll love how these easy peanut butter cookies recipe can fill a plate in under 30 minutes!

3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

I’m declaring these 3 Ingredient Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies a miracle cookie. They are simple enough for a kid to make and truly, perfectly wonderful, all with just 3 ingredients!

As with all recipes, make this peanut butter cookie recipe your own!

3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies are a favorite recipe among our food blog readers.

These 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies are a favorite recipe of our readers.

An easy peanut butter cookies recipe for kids!

We’ve featured our boys in some recipes for kids, in the past. They are great cooks and bakers and 2 of our six boys are thinking they want to go into the culinary field. No big surprise here.

This is such an easy cookies recipe for kids; it seems like a natural choice for whenever they are in the mood to bake. Which is pretty often!

Teach your kids how to make cookies

Here are a few of our other favorite easy cookies recipes that our kids love:

 

3 Ingredient Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies

Do your kids like to help out in the kitchen? This is a great recipe to get them started.

To make these three ingredient peanut butter cookies, all you need is:

  • Sugar
  • Peanut Butter
  • Egg

We like to add a little vanilla in with the recipe, but who’s counting?! Also, these peanut butter cookies are plenty sweet.

You can easily cut back on the sugar (maybe by half), and you’ll find they are still delicious and great for dunking.

Some fun add-ons to these easy Peanut Butter Cookies:

  • Add some chocolate chips to the mix.
  • Frost these with some decadent Nutella.
  • Take a small scoop of vanilla ice cream and make a sandwich cookie.

Make ahead cookies

Keeping in line with the “3” theme going on here, you can put make these peanut butter cookies up to 3 days ahead of time and store in an airtight container until ready to dunk. How much better can it get?

Make This Irresistible Quick Dessert

It’s not necessary to be a kid, to make these 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies. It is not necessary to be a kid to enjoy them. How can such a cookie not be a miracle?  Enjoy this one!   -Dan

 

See all of our cookie recipes here.

If you’re looking for just a few easy cookie recipes, these are among our most popular.

 

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3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

This easy cookie recipe is perfect for teaching kids how to make cookies. Try this easy peanut butter cookies recipe and make it your own!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword 3 ingredient, 3 Ingredient peanut butter cookies, cookies, How to make cookies, peanut butter, peanut butter cookies
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 12
Calories 196 kcal
Author Dan from Platter Talk

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla optional

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Stir the ingredients together until smooth.
  3. Scoop onto a parchment or silpat lined baking sheet. (Roll into 1" balls with your hands, if you do not have a scoop.)
  4. Press down with the back of a fork and then press again from the opposite direction, to form the criss-cross pattern on top
  5. Bake for 12 minutes and allow to rest on baking sheet, 1 to 2 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.

Recipe Video

Nutrition Facts
3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 196 Calories from Fat 99
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 11g 17%
Saturated Fat 2g 10%
Cholesterol 13mg 4%
Sodium 104mg 4%
Potassium 144mg 4%
Total Carbohydrates 20g 7%
Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
Sugars 18g
Protein 5g 10%
Vitamin A 0.4%
Calcium 1.1%
Iron 2.6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
3 Ingredient Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies are easy enough for a kid to make. If you want to teach your kids how to make cookies, this is the cookie recipe for you. In fact, we've declared this easy cookie recipe a kitchen miracle!

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  1. I commented on these when I made them in April. Easy recipe and tastes great. My son was over and craving something sweet like a cookie. I suggested these and once he checked the traffic for him to go home, he decided he would wait for the cookies. He, my husband and my daughter-in-law just consumed 12 cookies between the 3 of them! This time I added mini chocolate chips to 1/2 the batter. Thanks for a great recipe.

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  3. I used to make these cookies years ago! I completely forgot about them. My kids loved them and I know the grandsons would too. Thank you for reminding me about them. I can’t wait to make them.

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  8. I’ve been making these for the last three years, since finding them on a different blog in 2015. They’re SOOOO good, and I love how very easy they are. I share them with my minister’s family, and four of his eight (all bio) children are gluten intolerant, so this recipe is perfect for all of us to enjoy without having to get expensive GF flour. His wife is terribly allergic to MSG, too, so having something so simple that his family can see is safe for them means a lot to all of us…as well as letting his 11 year old daughter make them (she loves to bake!)

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  9. I found this recipe on Pinterest. I had all the ingredients already on hand, so easy to make and mist importantly, Delicious!

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  10. I must’ve done something seriously wrong. I doubled the recipe so it ended up being 2 cups of sugar, 2 cups of peanut butter, two eggs. It became a very hard greasy mess that did not bake well at all. Did I miss something in the recipe?

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    • Hi Kate, Thanks for the question. I’ve never made a double batch of this 3 ingredient peanut butter cookie recipe but I can’t imagine what went wrong with your version. Since there are only 3 ingredients, I’m thinking it was the peanut butter that did you wrong. Both eggs and granulated sugar are pretty consistent variables, but peanut butter can vary from brand to brand and wheter it’s natural with the oil well incorporated throughout etc. If you take a look at the recipe video, you will see exactly how this simple recipe should look throught the brief preparation process. We hope you find success making these easy cookies and please let us know if and howe you resolve this issue. Thanks again for reading Platter Talk!

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      • Hi Dixie, I can’t for the life of me imagine what the issue is that’s causing you to have problems with this simple recipe. I wish I could be there while you are making them. If any of our other readers have thoughts on this, please help us out here.

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  12. There is absolutely no excuse for me not to have the ingredients to make these! So few of them and so easy! The dough tastes great…. and they are in the oven now! If they are even half as good as they smell Im going to be so happy!

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