These simple peanut butter cookies take just 3-ingredients to make! Gluten-free, small-batch, fun to make with kids.
My sister and I come from a peanut butter loving family, and it shows. (Remember when my sister came up with these peanut butter and jelly cookies?) Just use the search bar on this site, and search the phrase “peanut butter,” and you’ll see what I mean.
I’m totally not surprised she came up with something this awesome. It’s just like her. I’ll get out of the way now, and you can read what Em has to say!
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Honest question: at what point does eating peanut butter straight out of the jar stop being a snack and start being a meal?
I don’t know why, but whenever I’m home by myself and I feel like I want a snack, I open the fridge and stare in it for about three solid minutes before I decide to have a spoonful of peanut butter. I guess it’s because when you have peanut butter, you’re never really alone.
It’s like…peanut butter just gets me.
The only thing I like more than peanut butter is avocados and the only thing I like more than avocados is being lazy and there is nothing I’m willing to do to prove it. To that end, I have what seems to be this affliction where every time I feel ambitious enough to bake something elaborate, I’m always out of just ONE ingredient.
Given my aforementioned laziness, you know I’m not going to the store for one stupid thing. So I’ve taken to developing a habit of mitching and boaning for a few minutes, eating a spoonful of peanut butter, then sitting in front of the TV and foregoing any baking aspirations that may have cropped up in my subconscience.
Mr. Nation and I were simultaneously experiencing a hankerin’ for something sweet the other night (who says we don’t do things together?).
If I’m going to exert the energy to actually make something, then I’m going to go a step further and write a potential blog post about it. Enter the universe trying to have its way with me by declaring my entire house devoid of flour. If you’re contributing to a baking blog, a flour shortage is a mighty big challenge to overcome, but again…too lazy to go to the store.
I stood in the middle of my kitchen for a minute, looking down the mouth of an open jar of peanut butter and realized that I also have a few squares of dark chocolate in my fridge. Knowing that nothing can go wrong with this combination helped me summon the confidence I needed to come up with a solution.
That’s when I MacGyved these delicious little cookies.
They seriously take next to no time and about the same amount of effort. I especially enjoyed haphazardly wrapping my chocolate squares into a piece of parchment paper and breaking them up with a meat mallet.
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 egg
- 5 teaspoons sugar
- 4-5 squares dark chocolate (about 2 oz.), broken into pieces *(optional)
- In a small bowl, combine peanut butter, egg, and sugar.
- Using two spoons or a cookie scoop, form small balls of dough and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Sprinkle chocolate pieces on top of each cookie. Bake at 350F for 12-15 min.
