5-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

Sometimes the best part of a recipe is its simplicity. This one has only 5 ingredients, and 3 steps: mix, roll and bake.

And to go with the theme of the recipe, I’ll keep it simple. Everyone should have a super easy cookie recipe, one that you can pull out of your back pocket on gloomy, rainy days to make just because. One that uses ingredients you already have on hand, that you can pull out of the oven less than 30 minutes after you get your butt off the couch to make them.

This is all of those things. Plus it’s delicious. And that should be reason enough to bake them.

5-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
Barely adapted from Claire Robinson

– 1 large egg

– 1 cup dark brown sugar

– 1 cup crunchy peanut butter

– 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

– 1 teaspoon sea salt

1) Preheat the oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with tin foil.

2) In a large bowl, mix the peanut butter, sugar, vanilla, egg and salt until well combined. Scoop tablespoon-sized balls of the dough and place onto the baking sheet about 1 inch apart. Flatten the cookies by making a crosshatch pattern using the tines of a fork.

3) Bake for 8-10 minutes, rotating the sheets halfway, until the cookies are golden around the edges. Let cool for 10 minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool completely. Repeat with the remaining dough.