Jill Can Cook: Three Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

I don't have a long, boring story to go along with this recipe. The house was clean. I didn't feel like reading. It was too cool to go outside. In general, there was just nothing to do. So, I had the kids come help me make something in the kitchen.

We had a lot of peanut butter on hand and the kids like cookies, so I spent about 3 seconds searching for a peanut butter cookie recipe and found this gem.

Three Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

Adapted from All Recipes

Ingredients:

I wanted to get the kids in on the cookie making. The sooner they learn to make cookies for me, the better!

•  1 cup peanut butter
•  1 cup white sugar
•  1 egg

Directions:                                 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Combine the peanut butter, white sugar and egg. Mix until smooth.
3. Drop spoonfuls of dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 6 to 8 minutes. Do not overbake! These cookies are best when they are still soft and just barely brown on the bottoms.

The kids were in kid heaven getting to help me in the kitchen since they don't get to help very often. I don't like the kids "helping" in the kitchen, mainly because I worry they'll die of salmonella or burns or something. I know, I know, I'm a worry wart. I'm working on my fears and slowly accepting their help. 

They did all the prep:

Stirring the egg.

Stirring the egg and sugar.

Stirring in the peanut butter. Lefty Mitch switched sides with righty Quinn.

They mixed for like 10 minutes and made me really proud. They were actually helping and not making a mess!

I rolled the balls. I'm good at ball rolling.

And then I fork pressed them. I'm good at fork placing, too.

Then my kids played in the kitchen while I cleaned up. You'd think that waiting 10ish minutes for cookies to bake would be easy, but it's the knowing that another batch will have to go into the oven when you take them out, thus starting the waiting cycle all over again  that sucks. 

But cookies are worth it.

These were actually pretty yummy.

I love that there were very few ingredients and prep time was quick.

I may have overcooked them slightly, but I like crunchy cookies sometimes, too.

Joe came home and ate 5 of them while he cooked dinner.

I like peanut butter cookies with a lot more ingredients and I like these with just a couple of ingredients. I think I might admit that I just like peanut butter cookies overall. Joe liked them a lot, too. A+ all around, especially from the kids that loved getting to make them as well as eat them!