Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

Got extra peanut butter? If yes, you should definitely make this easy peanut butter cookies. As a quick-fix afternoon snack for my two-year-old I let him help me make a batch of peanut butter cookies. The original recipe calls for only three ingredients, but I opted to add wheat flour and oatmeal for more fiber. This recipe is so easy, I let my son do the initial mix. He was so excited when I was setting up that I handed him the whisk and rubber spatula. 

Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
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Ingredients:

• 1 cup chunky peanut butter (you can also use the creamy kind)
• 1/2-3/4 cup sugar (either brown or white will do)
• 1/4 cup wheat flour
• 1/4 cup oatmeal (I used the instant kind)
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions:

1. Heat oven to 350°F or 177°C.
2. Mix all ingredients in a medium sized bowl with a wooden spoon or a rubber spatula. 
3. Scoop a 1 Tablespoon sized cookie dough on your prepared pan with parchment. 
4. Bake for 12-15 minutes. 
5. Let cool in a wire rack- be mindful that as the cookies cools it hardens a bit.
6. Sit back and relax, it's that easy.

Now take a piece of cookie or two, and pair it with milk or ginger tea. 

The bits of peanuts adds a crunch that's just right.

Note: I am using the tabletop Imarflex electric oven, so that's 2 batches of baking. 15 minutes was enough per batch which yielded about 16 cookies. 


xoxo,