3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
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Need a quick PB fix? 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies are here! Super simple 3 ingredient cookies that are soft and chewy and full of delicious peanut butter flavor! Yum!!
It doesn’t get any easier than this, for a like ‘wow’ cookie in just minutes? Yay!! Gluten-free, no flour included!

About 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
And did I say only 3 ingredients? No need to be skeptical. If you don’t believe me, just make them and you’ll see what I’m bragging about and how simple! 🙂 You can say they’re homemade too! Cuz they are! 🙂 No flour included, so they’re gluten free too. Can you believe it?
Believe it, because these peanut butter cookies taste amazing, especially when you want a delicious peanut butter cookie that doesn’t require chilling your dough as well!
If you want something easy, something fast, something sweet, something ultra peanut buttery, then these peanut butter cookie classics will definitely fit that criteria!
Just scoop them with a cookie dough scooper and use a fork for a fancy press into your dough and bake! Let’s do this!

More peanut butter cookies to introduce to you are these Peanut Butter Cup Explosion Cookies, Soft Batch Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies!
These Cookie Dough Brownie Cookies have an option for Nutella and peanut butter for the cookie dough.

Ingredients You Need for 3 Ingredient Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
Best 3 ingredient peanut butter cookie recipe
- granulated sugar
- creamy peanut butter, like Jif or Skippy
- egg

Instructions How to Make the Best Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
- Preheat the oven to 350. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, stir all 3 ingredients together until mixed well.
- Using a tablespoon cookie scoop (small), scoop up balls or roll into one inch cookie dough balls and drop on baking sheet.
- Press down with the back tines of a fork and then press again from the other side to form the criss-cross pattern on top.
- Sprinkle with sugar on tops if you want.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Allow them cool on the tray for a couple of minutes on the baking trays before moving to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Check out more How To – Baking Perfect Cookie Tips for the best cookie tips!
Storing 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
- Store these cookies at room temperature for up to five days in an airtight container.
More Variations
- Make these chocolate-peanut butter cookies simply by melting some chocolate and dipping half of the cookie into the melted chocolate or you can drizzle the chocolate on the tops.
- Top with a pinch or two of sea salt! Love a sweet and salty peanut butter cookie recipe!
Make this yummy peanut butter cookie recipe for parties, snackin’ or holiday fun. Kids love ’em!
You may want to snag the recipe of our amazing Amish Peanut Butter Cream Pie! It’s a winner!
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3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar Use extra sugar for rolling in sugar, use less sugar if you want, can reduce down to 1/2 cup and roll tops of cookies in sugar.
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Stir all 3 ingredients together until mixed well.
- Using a tablespoon scoop (small), scoop up balls or roll into one inch balls and drop on baking sheet.
- Press down with the back of a fork and then press again from the other side to form the criss-cross pattern on top.
- Sprinkle with sugar on tops if you want.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Allow them cool on the tray for a couple of minutes before moving to a wire rack to finish cooling.
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