Easy Peanut Butter Cookies; soft cookies with rich peanut butter flavour and crunchy peanut bits, all in less than 30 minutes!
As Autumn begins to roll in, so do those days where you just feel like doing something in the house. Not just watching a screen, and definitely not another walk, but just doing something. For some people this might be fixing something, building something, cooking a proper roast dinner, or painting.
For me (and I’m sure many of you) this most often comes in the form of baking. Even if I don’t necessarily have a particular craving, I just have a flour-based itch to scratch.
This week’s fix arrived in the form of cookies. With very few ingredients to hand, and an eternal hankering for peanut butter, I bring you these Easy Peanut Butter Cookies. Quick, simple, and always handy to have.
A small batch of soft peanut butter cookies. Meltingly tender, with welcome interruptions of crunchy peanut bits. Somewhat light in texture while still delivering bold flavour. You’ll find them both wholesome and satisfying, dancing a delicious line between healthy snack and sweet treat.
You’ll only need six ingredients to mix up a dough and bake it into these lovely little things, most of which you probably already have in your cupboards. This recipe can even be made vegan by swapping out the egg for a mashed banana.
The main ingredient in these Easy Peanut Butter Cookies (perhaps obviously) is a generous dose of peanut butter. I prefer using the crunchy kind, but feel free to use the smooth kind if you’d rather! My favourite brand is Pip & Nut, but most peanut butters will work well in this recipe.
No fancy equipment required, just a bowl, a spoon, and baking tray. You’ll get 6-8 snack-sized cookies from this recipe, but you can very easily double or even triple the measurements to feed a crowd.
Love peanut butter cookies? Try these insane White Chocolate Peanut Butter NYC Cookies!
If you’d like to see exactly how these are made, I’ve just posted a wee video on my YouTube channel showing you how! It takes you step-by-step through the recipe from measuring all the way to eating in just 5 minutes. The channel just hit 10,000 subscribers this week, so expect even more recipe videos soon!
I hope these Easy Peanut Butter Cookies can bring you some joy this weekend. Whether you make them to have a wee snack, or just for the quiet pleasure of doing something, enjoy.
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To make these Easy Peanut Butter Cookies, simply follow the recipe below:
Ingredients
- 150g (½ cup) peanut butter
- 1 medium egg (or 1 mashed banana to make them vegan!)
- 80g (⅓ cup) caster sugar, soft brown sugar, or honey
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 35g (¼ cup) plain flour
- ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
Instructions
- Preheat your oven – 180°C / 160°C fan / 350°F / gas mark 4 – and line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.
- Weigh out your peanut butter, egg, sugar/honey, and vanilla and mix together to combine.
- Add the flour and bicarbonate of soda to your wet ingredients and mix together to form a fairly stiff cookie dough.
- Use your hands to roll pieces of the dough into little balls and place them on your prepared baking tray.
- Once you’ve used up all the dough, grab a fork and push the balls down gently to flatten them, making a criss-cross pattern as you do so.
- Pop the tray into the oven for 8-10 minutes until the cookies are just slightly darkened at the edges, and firm to touch.
- Cool them on their trays for 5-10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Enjoy!
BE A MAVERICK: You can double or triple this recipe to feed a crowd! Why not stir a handful of chocolate chips through the dough before baking?
These Easy Peanut Butter Cookies will keep well in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
