These Small Batch Peanut Butter Cookies are so easy to make with just 4 ingredients and are loaded with peanut butter flavor.
They are thick flourless cookies and only take one bowl. This cookie recipe makes just 8 small cute as a button cookies perfect for 2 – 4 people.
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How to make 4 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a bowl or a stand mixer, mix together the granulated sugar, brown sugar, peanut butter, and jumbo egg yolk until smooth.

Divide into 8 equal portions of cookie dough, about 1” each.
Use your hands to roll into balls and place on the prepared cookie sheet.

Press down with the tines of a fork one time, just enough to make an impression, on each cookie dough ball.

Bake for 10 minutes.
Cool on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes.
Transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Serve and enjoy!

Store in an airtight container.
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Peanut Butter Cookies
These Small Batch Peanut Butter Cookies are so easy to make with just 4 ingredients and are loaded with peanut butter flavor. They are thick flourless cookies and only take one bowl.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 jumbo egg yolk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a bowl or a stand mixer, mix together the granulated sugar, brown sugar, peanut butter, and jumbo egg yolk until smooth.
- Divide into 8 equal portions of cookie dough, about 1” each.
- Use your hands to roll into balls and place on the prepared cookie sheet.
- Press down with the tines of a fork one time, just enough to make an impression, on each cookie dough ball.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Cool on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes.
- Transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Notes
- Store in an airtight container.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 159Total Fat: 9gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 52mgSodium: 91mgCarbohydrates: 16gFiber: 1gSugar: 13gProtein: 5g
Nutrition information is a guideline only, is calculated automatically by third party software, and absolute accuracy is not guaranteed.

This recipe is also on my other site Zona’s Lazy Recipes and makes 1 dozen.