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The Easiest Peanut Butter Cookies Ever

Posted by Megan @ Food & Whine on

These cookies are so simple to make that you’ll swear you’re forgetting something.

1 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup chocolate chips or raisins (optional)

Preheat oven to 325F. Combine ingredients and roll into small balls. Place on a cookie sheet and flatten with a fork. Bake for 10 minutes.

I found this recipe on the back of the kraft peanut butter container, and when I first read it I was a little skeptical. I mean, no flour? No baking powder?  Could it really be that easy? Well I was pleasantly surprised with the results. My recipe has some slight modifications, with less sugar and the addition of chocolate chips. Bennett liked the chocolate chips a lot, actually much more than he liked the cookie, as you can see by this photo I snapped of his cookie:

Yes, he picked out all the chocolate chips and left the cookie, but the rest of us enjoyed our whole cookies. I used Kraft smooth peanut butter this time, but I’m curious to try it with natural peanut butter or almond butter to see if that would work too.

7 Comments Add yours

  1. Jane @ Sweet Basil Kitchen's avatar Jane @ Sweet Basil Kitchen says:
    August 4, 2010 at 7:43 pm

    This will be perfect gluten free snack for my daughter-in-law! Thanks.

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  2. jesskahle's avatar jesskahle says:
    August 4, 2010 at 9:59 pm

    Just made some!! thanks Megan!

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  3. Shannon's avatar Shannon says:
    August 14, 2011 at 4:20 am

    I made these just today but with a lot more sugar. I’ll have to try your recipe and compare. I found you through gojee, by the way.

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  4. Unknown's avatar Unknown says:
    August 22, 2011 at 3:15 am

    dont you need flour?? please answer im going to make some right now and i need help

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  5. Megan's avatar Megan says:
    August 22, 2011 at 3:35 am

    Hi, that’s right there’s no flour

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  6. s.mann's avatar s.mann says:
    September 24, 2011 at 2:47 pm

    So EASY! It took me all of 5 minutes to put together and pop in the oven. We have lots of food allergies (corn,gluten,dairy) in our family and this was perfect! I was able to do dairy free chocolate chips and use brown sugar instead of white sugar. Plus the peanut butter is good protein! Love this ❤ Thanks for sharing!!!

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  7. Anonymous's avatar Anonymous says:
    December 18, 2012 at 5:17 am

    I saw a regular PB cookie recipe with chocolate chips (and flour) which also added chopped thin pretzels.You suppose adding pretzels to this recipe would work?Mahalo nui in advance for your time!CarolKauai, Hawaii

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