Make Quick and Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
Whipping up a small batch of peanut butter cookies takes about 20 minutes from start to finish. Only five ingredients are needed to make this recipe for 12 cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/2 cup peanut Butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Steps
- Preheat your oven to {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}}.
- Cream together 1 egg and 1/2 cup sugar until slightly frothy.
- Stir in 1/2 cup of peanut butter to creamed mixture and mix until smooth.
- Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
- Add the flour as needed to thicken the batter, if necessary.
- Drop by rounded spoonfuls about two inches apart onto a non-stick cookie sheet and mash with fork in a checked pattern. Sprinkle them evenly with sugar.
- Bake for 8-12 minutes until the cookies are slightly brown on the edges.
- Let cookies cool for several minutes before removing them from the cookie sheet.
- Enjoy your cookies!
Tips
- Bake at 300 degrees for 15 min for chewier cookies.
- To make the cookies special, form dough into balls and roll in sugar. Immediately after removed from the oven, press an unwrapped Hershey Kiss in the center of each cookie.
- Use crunchy peanut butter for variety.
Things You'll Need
- Mixing bowl
- Large spoon
- Cookie sheet
- Oven
- Spatula
- Fork
