I was bored. I decided to bake since i already have all the ingredients.
Yup! You read right. It does say THREE ingredients peanut butter cookie, and you don't have to buy anything extra cause if you're like me, you'd probably already have all these ingredients lying around in the kitchen or the pantry.
I know. It seems too good to be true. When i first stumble upon the recipe on allrecipes.com, i was a little bit skeptical. I went on youtube and searched for this recipe and surprisingly, a lot of people have done it. Including two of my favourite Australian chefs, Nicko's Kitchen and OnePotChef Show.
So, i think this is one of those things where you have to try for yourself to see if it works, so i decided to try it.
All you need are:
1) 1 large egg
2) 1 cup of caster sugar / brown sugar
3) 1 cup of peanut butter (creamy or chunky, but i prefer creamy :P)
Well what do you need to do?
Of course, preheat your oven on a 180 degrees Celsius and let that baby go. All you have to do with the ingredients is mix them up. Forget about creaming the sugar and the egg or worrying if the sugar and egg would mix together or something. It will. Just mix all those three ingredient together, and go crazy.
A head's up though, i do not recommend you using a whisk for it because it won't work. I tried using a whisk thinking that it would be a wet batter, but the dough just clump up in the whisk. SUCKS. So just use a wooden spoon or a spatula.
It will look like a thick dough. Once you get that, you just take as little or as much as you want and roll it up into a ball. Put it on a parchment paper on a cookie sheet and then press the ball with a fork. Or you can just shape them up, either way.
Umm, you can add chocolate chips in them, or nuts would be nice. But if you want nuts, i'd suggest just use the crunchy peanut butter.
After you're done with the cookie dough, you just put the babies in the preheated oven for about 10-15 mins, depending on the size. I put mine in for 15 minutes. I did small balls so i got about 32 little cookies. So you can do as small or as big as you want.
Also another warning, do not touch the cookies when you just got them out of the oven cause it will fall apart. It's so terribly soft, it's not even funny. You just gotta let the cookies sit for about 10 minutes for it to cool down and it will firm up.
Do not expect it to be crunchy though, cause it's really chewy. It's like those Subway cookies. I like them, a lot. Crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside.
I am not crazy over them, but i do like it. I think it would be nice with a nice cup of tea or a cup of cold milk. It's not so sweet, so it's not so bad and you could definitely taste the peanut butter.
Hope you all try it! And tell me if it works for you guys and if you guys like it. Have fun!
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