Impossible Peanut butter Cookies

So last night I get hungry, go rummaging, find nothing.

So I bring in the google, find a recipe program, and next thing I know I'm making impossible peanutbutter cookies.

1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Peanut butter
1 Large Egg

Cream the mixture. It cannot be crumbly or it will not work.

Drop cookies on sheet, bake at 350 for 9 minutes.

Do not cook longer than 9 minutes. They will continue to cook after taking them from the oven.

I would post pics, but when I woke up this morning they were gone. Recipe makes about 18 1" cookies.

Cookies without flour?

That's impossible!

Homercidal said:

Cookies without flour?

That's impossible!

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LOL. I've not had good experiences with recipes online, so I'm always keen on the reviews.

I also spent a decade in kitchens and cooking commercially, so when I read this my cook logic said "This ain't right" but with limited resources and not wanting to go to the store I tried it.

They are awesome.

This is now my peanutbutter cookie recipe.

Austin said:

LOL. I've not had good experiences with recipes online, so I'm always keen on the reviews.

I also spent a decade in kitchens and cooking commercially, so when I read this my cook logic said "This ain't right" but with limited resources and not wanting to go to the store I tried it.

They are awesome.

This is now my peanutbutter cookie recipe.

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I feel as though I'm about to be made the brunt of some joke, but I'll try this soon. Maybe the kid and I can whip (or cream) some of these up later tonight. She's having a friend over.

My recipe is close:

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup (packed) light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup (1/2 of 12 oz bag) semisweet choc chips

Homercidal said:

I feel as though I'm about to be made the brunt of some joke, but I'll try this soon. Maybe the kid and I can whip (or cream) some of these up later tonight. She's having a friend over.

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You have to cream them or it won't work.

I also hand rolled them into one inch balls and pressed them before I put them on the cookies and crisscrossed them with a fork.

z-bob said:

My recipe is close:

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup (packed) light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup (1/2 of 12 oz bag) semisweet choc chips

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Are they super sweet?

Austin said:

You have to cream them or it won't work.

I also hand rolled them into one inch balls and pressed them before I put them on the cookies and crisscrossed them with a fork.

And then I ate every. single. last. one.

Like some kind of animal.

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ftfy

Austin said:

Are they super sweet?

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Yes, (with all that sugar how could they not be, lol) but the bitterness from the chocolate cuts it a little bit.

Sounds good. There's a lot of traditionally fluffy-floury things that do really well with it omitted and more dense. A staple go-to for me is pancakes that are just egg & banana.

That was my "staple" recipe when my kids were little, and they'd say, "Hey, mom, I need 3 dozen cookies tomorrow" as they headed off to bed for the night.

My "standard" varied between two:

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla

or

1 cup peanut better
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg.

Roll into balls, and smoosh with a fork. It's best done on a Pampered Chef stone, so they stay soft and moist but cook through.

I personally swear by my three-ingredient PB cookies, if Bisquick can be considered one ingredient:

Bisquick
Peanut Butter
Sweetened Condensed Milk

Easy to mix up, bakes quickly, and you either roll them into balls & flatten with a fork like everyone else, or leave them into balls, bake them, and then press a Hershey's Kiss into the middle as soon as they come out of the oven.



*EDIT* - I do add a little bit of vanilla extract as my personal "secret ingredient" but the cookies are fine without it.

These can be made sugarfree as well - substitute granular Splenda for the sugar. Because the Splenda doesn't add bulk like sugar does, I also then add 1/4 to 1/2 cup blanched almond flour. And a teaspoon of vanilla, because vanilla just belongs in baked goods!

From the depths of my diet, I curse at thee, foul tempters!

Now, where did I put the peanut butter?!

Wow.

Snickerdoodle mug cakes are pretty awesome also.