Frugal Easy Peanut Butter Cookies with Just 3 Ingredients

The recipe for these peanut butter cookies belongs in every baker’s little black book: just one cup of peanut butter, one cup of sugar, one egg, all mixed by hand, and out comes golden perfection in minutes. Chewy edges, dense middles, and zero fuss—these cookies deliver on flavor, nostalgia, and effortless style.

Frugal Easy Peanut Butter Cookies with Just 3 Ingredients

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This peanut butter cookie recipe belongs in every baker’s little black book: just one cup of peanut butter, one cup of sugar, one egg, all mixed by hand, and out comes golden perfection in minutes. Chewy edges, dense middles, and zero fuss—these cookies deliver on flavor, nostalgia, and effortless style.

• Author: Diana
• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Cook Time: 10 minutes
• Total Time: 15 minutes
• Yield: 18 cookies 1x
• Category: cookies

Ingredients

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• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg

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Instructions

• Stir all ingredients together in medium sized mixing bowl.
• Make about 1 inch round balls and place on ungreased baking sheets. Put a little sugar in a bowl and dip the tines of a fork in it, then press down on each cookie twice, in a criss cross fashion.
• Bake at 350 for about 10 minutes, or until very lightly browned.
• If you want to add peanut butter cups or chocolate kisses: Bake the cookies fully and as soon as they are done, remove them from the oven and gently press a chocolate in the center of each one. Then, leave them to cool completely. The chocolate will melt down in there a little bit and attach itself perfectly. Enjoy!

To make these, all you need is peanut butter, sugar, and an egg. The amount of each ingredient is simply one: 1 cup of peanut butter, 1 cup of sugar, 1 egg. If you want to take them over the top a bit, you can add in small peanut butter cups or chocolate kisses. 

Make about 1 inch round balls and place on baking sheets. You don’t have to grease your sheets but sometimes I line mine with parchment when I’m feeling especially lazy and don’t want to have to wash them later. After you place dough balls on sheet, put a little sugar in a bowl and dip the tines of a fork in it, then gently press down on each cookie twice, in a criss cross fashion. Bake at 350 for about ten minutes, or until very lightly browned. 

If you want to add peanut butter cups or chocolate kisses: Bake the cookies fully and as soon as they are done, remove them from the oven and gently press a chocolate in the center of each one. Then, leave them to cool completely. The chocolate will melt down in there a little bit and attach itself perfectly. 

Look at these little gems! A single recipe makes about 18 cookies. 

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