4 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
Peanut butter cookies from a short list — chocolate covered peanut butter cookies, almond flour peanut butter cookies, 3 ingredient cookies — for busy nights.
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dessertChocolate covered peanut butter cookies
Healthy Reese’s peanut butter cups. Peanut butter/ nut butter inside combined with dates covered in chocolate
Sammy CapozziIngredients
- 1/4 cup Almond flour
- 3/4 cup Peanut butter or almond butter
- 12-15 Dates
- Half a bag Chocolate chips
Instructions
- 1Heat up 2 cups of water in a pot. This is to soften the dates. In a heat resistant bowl pour the heated water on top of the dates. The water doesn’t need to be boiling btw!
- 2Depit the dates and place them in a food processor. Pulse until mushed up a bit.
- 3Scoop in the 3/4 nut butter of your choice. Pulse until somewhat combined.
- 4Add in the 1/4 cup almond flour. Pulse until combined. Batter will be somewhat crumbly and that’s okay.
- 5Pour batter into a bowl and mash down with a silicon spatula. This motion will further combine batter and shape into a ball.
- 6Once combined, use a table spoon to shape cookies. I place and shape on parchment paper. This makes a batch of 20 cookies. Once all shaped into balls I usually flatten them to make into bite sized cookies. Place in freezer to firm for about 15-20 min
- 7Melt the chocolate chips in a pan. I add a slice of butter so it’s a bit oily to dip cookies in.
- 8Take the firmed cookies out of freezer and dip into chocolate. Once done place in freezer again to harden. 10-15 min
- 9Take out and enjoy. I usually store in a Pyrex in the fridge!
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Peanut butter cookies are the ones you can make without a trip to the store. Peanut butter, sugar, an egg, and twenty minutes, and the kitchen smells like somebody planned ahead.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when the kids need something after supper, when a neighbor stops by, or when a lunchbox needs filling and there's no time for a long bake.
Every recipe here keeps the list short: chocolate covered peanut butter cookies made with almond flour and dates, plain Peanut Butter Cookies with vanilla and sugar, almond flour peanut butter cookies with maple syrup, and 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies with just peanut butter, sugar, and an egg.
Quick Tips
- 1
Use shelf-stable peanut butter
Regular creamy peanut butter holds the dough together better than natural; if you use natural, stir it well and chill the dough 15 minutes.
- 2
Press with a fork twice
Roll dough into 1-inch balls, then press with a floured fork in both directions so they bake evenly in about 10 minutes.
- 3
Pull them looking underbaked
Take them out at 9 to 10 minutes when the edges are set and the centers still look soft; they firm up on the sheet.
- 4
Cool on the pan
Let the cookies sit 5 minutes before moving them, or flourless ones will crumble right off the spatula.
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