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Easy Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

With only four ingredients, these cookies couldn't be easier for our son, Jacob, to help whip up. He thinks it's fun helping prepare meals and snacks.—Valerie Ellsworth, Belvidere, Illinois

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Easy Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 30 min.

Yield: 12 Servings

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Ingredients

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

In a large bowl, cream peanut butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla.
Shape level tablespoonfuls into balls. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets; flatten with a fork. Bake at 350° for 16-18 minutes or until set. Cool for 5 minutes; remove to wire racks. Yield: about 2 dozen.

Editor's Note: This recipe does not use flour.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 each) equals 198 calories, 11 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 18 mg cholesterol, 105 mg sodium, 21 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 6 g protein.

Originally published as Easy Peanut Butter Cookies in Taste of Home February/March 1999, p15

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Reviewed on Mar. 03, 2013 by catrinah

Easy and good! Definitely my favorite!

Reviewed on Oct. 07, 2012 by awossum

Added semi sweet chocolate chips and everyone loved them.

Reviewed on Nov. 29, 2011 by LarryMichelle

Leave out the vanilla, it's good that way! And yes - NO flour!

Reviewed on Jul. 07, 2011 by muffinmonster

mcgee64,

there are several peanut butter cookie recipes on TOH that are flourless. It isn't any mistake

Reviewed on Jul. 02, 2011 by lillybow

This is a great recipe. I made the cookies using a 1 1/4 in scoop to make the balls and didn't flatten them. They came out fine.

Reviewed on Feb. 21, 2011 by sjb1070

its easy to make and i substituted raw sugar for the regualar sugar, also added a few chocolate chips yummy.

Reviewed on Aug. 30, 2009 by 35grandkids

I made a recipe similar to this. It called for baking soda,not vanilla and chopped peanuts. Cool the cookies, then add melted choc. chips and chopped nuts. GLUTEN FREE

Reviewed on Jan. 17, 2009 by sharonbolden

I've made these and it's really is the 3 ingredients...amazed me too but they are really, really good. I'm going to add chopped peanuts to my next batch.

Reviewed on Dec. 12, 2008 by mcgee64

I would like to try this recipe. However, I see there is no mention of flour. Is this correct?