🥜🍪 Classic Peanut Butter Cookies
These cookies are soft in the center, slightly crisp on the edges, and full of rich peanut butter flavor.
🛒 Ingredients (Makes about 18 cookies)
- 1 cup Peanut butter
- ¾ cup sugar (or ½ cup white + ¼ cup brown sugar)
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp baking soda
- Pinch of salt (optional)
🥣 Instructions
1️⃣ Preheat oven
Set oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2️⃣ Mix the dough
In a bowl combine:
- peanut butter
- sugar
- egg
- vanilla
- baking soda
- salt
Mix until smooth.
3️⃣ Shape cookies
Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place on the baking sheet.
4️⃣ Make the classic pattern
Press each cookie gently with a fork in a crisscross pattern.
5️⃣ Bake
Bake 8–10 minutes until the edges are lightly golden.
6️⃣ Cool
Let cookies cool on the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack.
💡 Tips
- For softer cookies, don’t overbake.
- Add chocolate chips for extra sweetness.
- Sprinkle a little sea salt on top before baking.
⭐ Super Easy 3-Ingredient Version
Mix:
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
Bake the same way for simple, chewy cookies.
If you want, I can also show you:
- 🍪 Amish peanut butter cookies (super soft bakery style)
- 🍫 Peanut butter blossom cookies (with chocolate on top)
- 🥜 Old-fashioned lunchroom peanut butter cookies from the 1950s.
