This single serving peanut butter cookie recipe will satisfy your strongest peanut butter cookie cravings, and there’s no need to share!
Easy single serving cookie recipe
Want a chewy peanut butter cookie?
What about an easy recipe that makes just one soft homemade peanut butter cookie, doesn’t require any eggs, and can be whipped up in just ten minutes flat?
Whether you live alone or simply do not want the temptation of an entire batch of cookies, this single serving peanut butter cookie is the perfect answer.
Also make these Peanut Butter Truffles
Single serving peanut butter cookie ingredients
The recipe calls for peanut butter, pure vanilla extract, flour, baking soda, salt, sweetener of choice, milk of choice, and optional ingredients like chocolate chips or chopped peanuts.
Flours that work include spelt, white, whole wheat pastry, oat (my favorite), and almond flour for a keto version. I do not recommend coconut flour here.
You can use any all purpose liquid or granulated sweetener, including pure maple syrup, agave, honey (not for vegans), brown sugar, white sugar, coconut sugar, or granulated erythritol or xylitol for a sugar free cookie.
Liquid sweeteners yield a more cakey cookie, while cookies made with granulated sugar have a more chewy texture.
Almond butter, cashew butter, macadamia nut butter, or nut free sunflower butter all work as peanut free alternatives.
*For a larger serving, make Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies
Step by step recipe video
How to make a peanut butter cookie for one
Preheat an oven or toaster oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
If using natural peanut butter from the refrigerator, either let it sit out for a few hours or gently warm it until soft and easily stir-able.
Stir together the flour, salt, baking soda, optional chopped peanuts, and granulated sugar (if using). Then mix in the peanut butter, vanilla extract, milk of choice, and any liquid sweetener you might be using.
If using a dry sugar instead of a liquid one, slowly add in just a little extra milk to achieve a peanut butter cookie dough texture.
Form into one large cookie or two smaller cookie shapes. Place on a cookie tray, and bake for seven minutes. They should look a little underdone after this time. Let cool before handling, during which time the cookies will firm up considerably.
A few readers have reported success in a microwave, but I have not tried it yet here. If you prefer, I do have a chocolate chip recipe for Microwave Cookies.
Storing leftovers
The best and worst part about making a single serving cookie is that there are not likely to be any leftovers.
However, if you wish to save time and combine all of the peanut butter cookie ingredients the night before, you can store the unbaked cookie dough ball in a covered container in the fridge or freezer until ready to use.
Or if you have more willpower than I do, bake the cookie ahead of time. Then let it cool before enjoying the next day or freezing in an airtight container to enjoy within two months.
The recipe was adapted from this Single Serving Protein Cookie.
Single Serving Peanut Butter Cookie
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp flour or almond meal
- 1 1/2 tbsp peanut butter or allergy friendly sub
- 1/16 tsp baking soda
- 1/16 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 tbsp liquid or granulated sweetener of choice
- 1 tsp milk of choice or water
- optional chocolate chips, chopped peanuts
InstructionsÂ
- Flours and sweeteners that work are listed above in this post. If you use liquid sweetener, the results will be more cakey. If you use granulated sugar, the cookie will be more chewy.Preheat an oven or toaster oven to 350 F. If not soft, gently warm peanut butter until easily stir-able. Mix dry ingredients. Stir in wet ingredients. If using granulated sweetener, add extra milk of choice as needed to achieve a cookie dough texture. Mix well and form into one or two cookies. Flatten into cookie shapes and bake for 7 minutes. Let cool before handling, because it firms up as it cools. Readers have also reported success in a microwave, but I have not tried.View Nutrition Facts
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Notes
More Easy Peanut Butter Ideas
3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls
You’re one of the only healthy foodie blogs that not only offers me all the chocolate/peanut butter/delicious recipes I could want, but offers single-serving options. Hooray! Definitely making myself one of these later…
I cook for both myself and my hubby…..which sometimes means two different meals because he likes meat and prefers me to add some to his portion of the vegetarian meals that I make for myself!
I always cook for myself! My mum’s too busy to cook and my dad and bro don’t know how. When I cook, its ‘for one’ but when I bake, its a different story 😀
Those peanut butter cookie deserve to be rolled into balls to make Peanut Butter Cookie Balls as well! 😀 Sounds yum 😀
Right now I only cook for 1, and that’s enough for me to handle! When I do cook with friends or for others I easily get overwhelmed with timing and quantities. I’m sure its something that gets easier the more you do it though. But leftovers are amazing too! Sometimes I cook a bunch of sweet potatoes and keep them cold in the fridge, I love snacking on cold sweet potatoes!
KATIE!!! I LOVE THESE!!! Single Lady Cookies?! I LOVE THIS! Especially that they have Peanut Butter in them! Do you think I could add chocolate chips to them? 🙂
Yes, definitely. I even have that listed in the recipe. Everything’s better with chocolate 🙂
This is EXACTLY what I need right now <3
Katie, you are a genius. I can’t wait to make these with some PB2!!
I was wondering if it would work just as well with PB2… Let me know how it turns out! I get nervous baking with the stuff….
I have baked with it quite a few times and am always happy with the results. I’ll give these cookies a shot tomorrow and let you know how they come out 🙂
Guess what i’m having for dessert tonight! I may add come chocolate chips though. 😉
We’ve done cookies with cookie dough dip… so I imagine that some of your fudge daddy brownies would also pair nicely with brownie dip, no? 😉 I agree with Julene: love how you’re one of the few bloggers that provides recipes for single servings!
I usually cook for myself, but I, too, will either keep a recipe for four the way it is and store leftovers. It’s great to have healthy dinners already prepared after a long day’s work, when – sadly – the last thing one wants to do is cook!
Mmm yes, I don’t think you can go wrong with brownie-topped brownies!
Yay! I’m OBSESSED with your single lady recipes, more please!