Gluten Free, Grain Free & Dairy Free 3-ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies 
Um yes, this recipe has a total of 3 ingredients in it. It is that easy to make. Almost too easy to the point where it’s dangerous since I have been wanting to make these everyday since I first took my first bite of one.
The other amazing part of these cookies is that they are gluten free, grain free & dairy free. You can also make them paleo by subbing creamy almond butter for peanut butter if you’d like.
So let’s chat about how there are 3 ingredients into one peanut buttery, fudgey, delicious cookie. I am all about the easy, simple and quick recipes aka the lazy girl’s guide to eating and baking. While I love spending time in my kitchen experimenting and making different things, I understand the the average person doesn’t really get a thrill out of it like I do. Good-for-you and delicious food should be easy to prepare. It shouldn’t come with more than 10 ingredients and it shouldn’t take you hours to make. That’s what going out to dinner is for. Save the gourmet fancy Soufflés for your next date night.
3-ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies is what you can make for a quick treat after a long ass day at work or when you are in a bind and need to bring a dessert to a friend’s house. All you will need is peanut butter, an egg & coconut sugar. I used Better Body Foods coconut sugar (aka my latest obsession!).
In case you aren’t familiar with Better Body Foods, they sell a variety of organic products that you can use basically every single day. Everything from coconut flour to agave to chia seeds and more! Not to mention, the company sells nothing but quality organic products that are extremely versatile. I have stocked my pantry with a handful of their items and find myself using them almost everyday.
So peanut butter, an egg and coconut sugar, that’s all you need! Of course you can add some chocolate chips or vanilla extract or whatever else you’d like but these cookies are amazing just with these 3 ingredients. If you have some of my 3-ingredient Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter, you can absolutely use that as your peanut butter too.
3-ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
- Yield: 12-15 1x
- Category: gluten free, dairy free
- Cuisine: dessert, snack
Ingredients
- 1 cup of creamy peanut butter (at room temp, not from fridge)
- 1 egg
- 1 cup of Better Body Foods coconut sugar
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 325 degrees & line cookie sheet with parchment paper and spray well
- Mix all ingredients together well
- Using a tablespoon & your hand, place balls of dough on top cookie sheet
- Using a fork, press down on the ball so it flattens slightly
- Bake in oven for 10-12 minutes or until ready
xx, Rach
31 Comments
Is there anything I can sub the coconut sugar for? Stevia?
Hi Samantha! I haven’t tried that but I’m not the biggest stevia fan with baking (I love it my beverages though!). I would recommend cane sugar before stevia for this! If you have the opportunity to purchase coconut sugar, I recommend it. It’s an great option! xx
LOVE the last photo! These look delicious and I wanna eat ’em all up 🙂
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These are DELICIOUS. I added a few chocolate chips to give me the coveted PB and Choc flavor and it’s taking all my willpower not to eat the batch. I did find that the batter was way too sticky at first so I added a little more sugar to make it easier to handle. Maybe I didn’t measure the sugar correctly the first time but I thought I had equal sugar to PB. Either way, so good.
These cookies came out so good because I followed the directions exactly! Yay!
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Love how easy this recipe is to follow!! Tried them out and they turned out moist and delicious 🙂 great recipe!
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Gorgeous photo and such good cookies! These have my name all over them!
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I followed the directions exactly and these came out so great!! 🙂 Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe!
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Ahhh rachel I’m SO making these this week! My small group loves peanut butter cookies, so now I have an excuse to make them and not eat them all 🙂
xo,
Sarah Grace
I have seen these all over the web and have been making three-ingredient peanut butter cookies for years. They are so good and so simple to make. I almost always have the ingredients on hand, so when cravings call I am good to go.
I love them! I loved using coconut sugar instead so it’s healthier 🙂 The possibilities are endless with these cookies!
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My wife just made these last night and they turned out great!
She improvised a bit, too. Yummy!
Thanks for the great idea!
Doug
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Hi Doug! I am so happy to hear that. They are such an easy and clean cookie to enjoy. I love adding other ingredients too like chocolate chips, nuts or mixing nut butters! So delicious! xx
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How do you know when these guys are ready they are sooo runny looking?
Hi Ogi – they shouldn’t be runny at all. It should form a dough then bake in the oven per instructions above
would it work the same with normal white sugar? I know I sound horrible for asking but I ran out of coconut sugar :'(
I’m not sure! It probably does, I actually don’t even have white sugar in my home so I haven’t tested it before. Let me know if it does 🙂 xx
It will! This is the same recipe I grew up with my mom making. She used pb, egg, and white sugar. Thet always turned out great.
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Soooooo good! Cannot say enough how amazing these are! They taste better than full fat peanut butter cookies!
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yay!! thank you nina!
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Added the chocolate chips, vanilla and hemp seed making it savory. Delicious and can’t wAit to make again
These are so dangerously good! I always have these ingredients on hand, so I can’t believe it took me this long to try out the recipe, but oh man. I’ve already eaten 2 straight out of the oven and they are divine. Thanks, Rachel!