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Flourless peanut butter cookies

A fast five-ingredient cookie for days when you want a beginner bake without weighing flour.

Based on Amy Trage’s King Arthur Baking recipe ↗

Time
18 minutes
Makes
18 cookies
Oven, conventional
175°C / 350°F

Before you begin

Read the whole recipe, then get these ready.

  • Baking tray
  • Baking paper
  • Mixing bowl
  • Cookie scoop

Standard creamy peanut butter works better than very runny natural peanut butter here.

Ingredients

Original recipe weights. Small quantities stay in measuring spoons; eggs stay as counts. 1 kg = 1,000 g.

Let’s bake

  1. 1

    Heat the oven to 175°C (350°F) and line a tray.

  2. 2

    Stir peanut butter, sugar, baking soda and salt until well blended. Beat in egg and vanilla, then fold in chips.

  3. 3

    Scoop onto the tray and flatten lightly.

  4. 4

    Bake 8–10 minutes. Cool on the tray until the cookies firm up.

Your baking notes

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