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TikTok Peanut Butter Cookies (The Best 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies)

Wondering what the hype is behind the famous TikTok peanut butter cookies? Check out this even easier take on the viral trend for the easiest (and best!) 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies you’ll ever make.

TikTok Peanut Butter Cookies | 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

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While peanut butter cookies have always been a cult favorite it seems, this dessert has had an even bigger boost in popularity lately thanks to TikTok.

Though we can’t deny that we love following those aspirational ASMR style gourmet cooking accounts, sometimes simplicity does win out — at least when it comes to what TikTok recipes we’re replicating in our kitchen.

You may be surprised to learn that the viral TikTok cookies recipe isn’t actually all that new however.

TikTok Peanut Butter Cookies | 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

In fact, we’ve been making a version of these viral TikTok cookies for years!

While our recipe is slightly different, it actually includes fewer ingredients than the five ingredient peanut butter cookies that have become popular on social media lately.

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TikTok Peanut Butter Cookies | 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

Almost everyone will have the ingredients for these three ingredient peanut butter cookies, which we think are pretty darn unbeatable.

All you need is just peanut butter, one egg, and brown sugar.

That’s right, the chocolate chips are optional (though totally recommended).

TikTok Peanut Butter Cookies | 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

There’s something to be said about a simple recipe — one that requires minimal effort and minimal ingredients.

We don’t like a lot of fuss in our kitchen (because who really has time for that?).

And that’s exactly why we love these three ingredient peanut butter cookies that we think are comparable to the TikTok cookies everyone is raving about.

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TikTok Peanut Butter Cookies | 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

Fewer ingredients, yet still tasty peanut butter cookies nonethless.

How can you go wrong with that?

Check out the full recipe below to give these three ingredient peanut butter cookies a shot for yourself and see if they live up to the TikTok peanut butter cookies recipe that everyone loves so much!

TikTok Peanut Butter Cookies | 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

TikTok Peanut Butter Cookies (The Best 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies)

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

You can't go wrong with 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies, can you? Of course you'll have to taste test this recipe though, just to be sure...*wink*.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar, packed
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and combine peanut butter, brown sugar, and egg in a bowl.
  2. Fold in chocolate chips if you choose to use them.
  3. Chill the dough in the fridge for about 10 minutes.
  4. Line a baking sheet with wax paper, and space about 12 small round balls of dough equally apart.
  5. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until edges of the cookies have slightly browned. Score each cookie with a fork in the last few minutes of baking.
  6. Allow to cool, and enjoy!

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What did you think of these 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies? Are they better than the TikTok cookies recipe?

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Holly Habeck

Holly is a millennial travel and lifestyle writer based in New York. With ten years of experience in digital publishing and photography starting with her work writing for College Fashionista and Her Campus at Ithaca College, Holly has been featured in publications such as Southern Living and Lonely Planet. She enjoys sharing her travel expertise as well as lifestyle inspiration in categories such as home décor, DIY beauty, and fashion. More importantly though, Holly is a true Hufflepuff, and her Starbucks order forever remains a grande Iced Sweet Cream Cold Brew. When she's not writing or editing photos for this site, you can find her reading anything in the Sarah J. Maas universe or cuddling with her chihuahua x pomeranian pup Pixie.
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