How to Make Quick and Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

Last Updated: August 21, 2024

Whipping up a small batch of peanut butter cookies takes about 20 minutes from start to finish. Only six ingredients are needed to make this recipe.

Makes 12 cookies.

Ingredients

1 egg
¼ cup sifted flour
½ cup peanut butter
½ cup granulated sugar
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Steps

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Preheat your oven to 350 °F (177 °C).
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Mix until slightly frothy.

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Mix on low speed until combined.
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Then, mash with a fork in a checked pattern and sprinkle them evenly with sugar.
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Can I make the cookies bigger by adding some flour?

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If you put more flour in just to make more or larger cookies, you will end up with bland, not very sweet cookies that taste mainly of flour. If you want more/bigger cookies, just double the recipe (all ingredients, including the flour).

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12 cookies.

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It's added with the dry ingredients. First you mix all your dry ingredients (flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, etc.) and then your wet ones. Finally, you slowly combine them.

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Use crunchy peanut butter for variety.

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Bake at 300ºF (150C) for 15 min for chewier cookies.

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To make the cookies special, form dough into balls and roll in sugar. Immediately after removing the cookies from the oven, press an unwrapped Hershey Kiss in the center of each cookie.

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