Recipe: Perfect Simple Peanut Butter Cookies

Simple Peanut Butter Cookies.

You can cook Simple Peanut Butter Cookies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Simple Peanut Butter Cookies

1. Prepare 3/4 cup of smooth creamy peanut butter.
2. It's 1/4 cup of light brown sugar.
3. Prepare 1/4 cup of granulated sugar.
4. You need 1 of large egg.
5. You need 1/3 cup of whole wheat flour (or substitute all-purpose flour).
6. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
7. It's 1/2 tsp of baking soda.

Simple Peanut Butter Cookies instructions

1. In a small bowl, pour in the flour, salt and baking soda and whisk to combine..
2. In a separate large bowl, add in the peanut butter, egg and sugar..
3. With a spatula, mix till everything is well combined..
4. Then, add in the dry ingredients and fold it in with the spatula to form a dough. Add a splash of water if the dough is too stiff to work with..
5. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Measure 1 and 1/2 tbsp of the cookie dough and roll it into a ball in your palms. Place the dough balls on the cookie sheet, leaving spaces in between..
6. Press the dough balls down with a fork..
7. Bake in a preheated oven at 325 degrees fahrenheit for about 15 minutes on the center rack..
8. Take them out when baked and let them cool on the cookie sheet for 10 minutes to firm up before picking them up..
9. Serve warm. Enjoy!.