Single Serve Peanut Butter Cookie (Small Batch)

This Single Serve Peanut Butter Cookie is tender and chewy, packed with peanut butter flavor AND mixed up in one bowl by hand, no mixer needed. It uses under 10 simple ingredients, that you likely already have on hand. The recipe makes just two large cookies that are perfect to satisfy your cravings without all the leftovers.

⭐Why I Love It:

• No Mixer Required - Mix up easily by hand in one bowl.
• Creamy Peanut Butter - Not only adds a rich, nutty flavor, but also gives it a chewy texture.
• Super Small Batch Recipe - Now you can satisfy your peanut butter cookie craving, without having to make an entire batch! Other favorite single serve cookie recipes worth trying is this Single Serve Chocolate Chip Cookie, Single Serve Coconut Cookie, and Single Serve Double Chocolate Cookie.

🥘Ingredients

• Creamy Peanut Butter - I do not recommend swapping in chunky peanut butter. Because the moisture level of peanut butter can vary brand to brand, we'll adjust the amount of flour added to reach the right consistency, I detail this in the recipe so you'll get great results!
• Unsalted Butter - Softened to room temperature! As long as your butter is softened, then you can easily mix up the dough by hand. If you use salted butter, just reduce the amount of salt by half. When measuring the butter, I prefer to cut from the middle of the stick since the tablespoon markers at the ends of the stick can be off. For a small recipe, it's extra important to be accurate with measurements.
• Brown Sugar - When measuring brown sugar, make sure to pack it into the measuring cup. You can use either light brown sugar or dark brown sugar.
• Egg Yolk - Using only the egg yolk helps keep the recipe super small and it also gives the cookies their chewy/fudgy/almost gooey center. If you want to use up the leftover egg white, you can make this Single Serve White Cake or Single Serve Chocolate Cake recipe!
• Vanilla Extract - For flavor!
• All-Purpose Flour - When measuring flour, make sure to use the 'spoon and level' method. This is where you spoon the flour into the measuring cup and then level off the top. Instead of dipping the measuring cup directly into the flour bin which can lead to over measuring.
• Baking Soda - This is the leavener for the cookie to help them rise.
• Kosher Salt - I like the Diamond Kosher Salt. A small amount of salt is so important to balance the sweetness in cookies. If you use table salt, then I would cut the amount by half.
• White Granulated Sugar - Optional For Rolling

See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.

🔪How To Make a Single Serve Peanut Butter Cookie

This recipe for Single Serve Peanut Butter Cookies could not be any easier! Just mix up the dough in one bowl, pop in the fridge while the oven preheats, then bake on one sheet.

💭Recipe Tips

• Peanut Butter Consistency Varies - You'll need to use creamy peanut butter for this cookie recipe but the moisture level varies brand to brand. Because of this, you'll start with adding some of the flour then add the last tablespoon slowly until the right consistency is reached.
• Softened Butter - In order to mix up the cookie dough by hand, your butter needs to be softened to room temperature. If you're in a pinch you can microwave for just a couple of seconds, but be careful not to melt it!
• Allow to Cool on Baking Sheet - Letting the single serve cookies cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes lets the cookies finish baking on the warm baking sheet so they set up.
• Don't Over Bake - The cookies will finish setting up on the baking sheet so in order to have the gooey (but not raw) insides be sure not to over bake them. The egg yolk helps give the center a gooey/fudgy interior so know that as long as they're set around the edges, golden on the bottom and golden brown/just set on top then they are baked 🙂
• Use 'Spoon and Level' Method When Measuring Flour - When measuring flour, make sure to use the 'spoon and level' method. This is where you spoon the flour into the measuring cup and then level off the top. Instead of dipping the measuring cup directly into the flour bin which can lead to over measuring.

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