We heard a recipe for 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies on a podcast that we love. I was skeptical that the cookies would be good but Husband wanted me to give them a try anyway, so I did.

The recipe calls for:

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg

Mix together. I used my KitchenAid to mix the batter, but mixing by hand would be easy too.

Roll spoonfuls of batter into balls. I skipped this step and just used spoonful lumps. Worked just as well. Rolling into balls will make your cookies look more uniform.

Take a fork dipped in sugar and create hash marks across the top of the cookie. This is not a necessary step, but since the cookies do not spread or rise, you will need to flatten the cookie to some degree before baking. And since the cookie doesn’t spread, however big your cookies are when you put them into the oven, that is how big they will be when they come out the oven.

Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes. I baked the first batch at 15 and the second at 12.

The recipe will yield between 12 & 24 cookies depending on the size of your balls. (I just giggled like a school girl. Hehe)

Let cool.

First thing I want to say is that this is probably the easiest recipe I have ever tried. If there are even easier recipes, I would love to hear them.

Second, this is not a “normal” peanut butter cookie. Without the rest of the ingredients in a regular peanut butter cookie, the texture is extra crispy and hard. Not a soft-batch cookie. But without the extra ingredients, the peanut butter flavor is much stronger. Also, I think the cookie is sweeter.

I recommend this recipe if you are short on time and need a fast dessert. I had these mixed, baked and cooled completely in about 50 minutes. More efficient cooks could probably have these ready faster.

If you want to be extra decadent, add chocolates to the cookies when they come right out of the oven. I used Hershey Miniatures, but Hershey Kisses or Dove Chocolates would also work. Whatever you like is what you should use. If you’re not careful when adding the chocolate, you can break the cookie. Even though it is crispy it is still a fragile cookie. I added chocolate to at least two cookies, breaking them in the process, before I realized I needed to be gentle.

Once I again I didn’t take photos of the process. One of these days I will remember. But here is a photo of the end result.

There were more cookies, with more chocolates, but we ate those before I could snap the photo.