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. Stop right there! These 3 Ingredient Peanut Putter Cookies might be just the answer you’re looking for.
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! Like all recipes, make this peanut butter cookie recipe your own!
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 a number of posts, in the past. They are great cooks and bakers and 2 of our 6 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:
Do your kids like to help out in the kitchen? This is a great recipe to get them started.
To make these 3 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 (mabye by half) and you’ll find they are still delicious and great for dunking.
Some fun and easy additions you can add 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 your own 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?
Is there anything better than dunking a fresh cookie out of the oven? If so, we want to hear it!
An irresistible Quick Dessert
It’s not necessary to be a kid, to make these 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies. It is definitely 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, these are among our most popular.
- Cherry Chocolate Kiss Cookies
- Old-Fashioned Soft Pumpkin Cookies
- Scottish Tea Cookies with Apple Butter
3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
Try this easy peanut butter cookies recipe and make it your own!
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Stir the ingredients together until smooth.
- Scoop onto a parchment or silpat lined baking sheet. (Roll into 1" balls with your hands, if you do not have a scoop.)
- Press down with the back of a fork and then press again from the opposite direction, to form the criss-cross pattern on top
- Bake for 12 minutes and allow to rest on baking sheet, 1 to 2 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.
Recipe Video
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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?
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!
So easy md right in your kitchen! I added chocolate chips
Fantastic addition! Thanks for the great feedback!
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!
These cookies look delicious and I can’t believe how easy they are!
Thanks, Lisa. They have (for good or bad) become a standard at our house!
Three ingredients cookies? Count me in! These sound so good!
There is nothing better than a simple and delicious PB cookie! Three ingredients just can’t be beat!
Our kids make these about once a week, they truly are simple and delish!