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
Instructions
- 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 went from writing about visiting NYC to posting recipes.
Was there a transitional “I flew from NY to Texas” post which I missed?
No, you didn’t miss a post. I am not a blogger who writes about everything I do. I prefer to write more about recipes. I enjoy writing those posts more.
When did you return to Texas?
Um… I’m confused as to why you want to know?
The story of your trip to NYC had a beginning and a middle but no ending.
So I asked for an ending.
But if you’d prefer to keep the story without an ending, that’s OK.
I’m writing another nyc post today, because I still have photos I want to share. But then I’m going back to desserts :).
Although I generally only cook for myself, I still make full batch recipes – especially with baking! I can always give them away or freeze them, or sometimes my family will eat the things I cook as well.
Love the single serving items! I always have such a hard time when I have a whole batch of cookies, this is great!
Have you tried adding tahini to your peanut butter cookies? The tahini to peanut butter ratio can’t be the same of course there should be less tahini imo (otherwise they won’t be peanut butter cookies) but the mix is really good!
I’ve read your reply to Averie’s comment, and I really hope you can succeed in making non-crumbly flourless cookies because mine are always crumbly– I as well don’t have a problem eating those crumbs though!
I haven’t tried them with tahini! It might have to be another experiment… honestly, I’m almost happy when the experiments fail. It means more to eat ;).
These look SO yum. Love all your single lady recipes, they seriously come in handy!
Are single-serving chocolate cookies next? please? Haha these look amazing! I need a bigger freezer, I don’t have room to make extras of anything. 🙁
I’ve done chocolate chip already… but maybe some kind of chocolate brownie cookie?
The single lady idea is so great! Being a single lady is not so great though.. 😉
I like to always prepare new meals, and i dont have anything in my freezer, besides frozen berries. When I make meals that leavs me with leftovers, I try to use them in the first few days, so I just keep them in my fridge!
So is it bad if I triple this recipe even when I’m home alone? 🙂
Hahaha you are a very smart lady 😉
Hi Katie! I am making those very soon! My husband is a meat-eater, and I am a vegetarian who refuses to cook meat! I often cook things just for myself– though he appreciates my creations, he often would rather just fend for himself. I’ll get him to eat tempeh one day!!!
I used to say that about my boyfriend! I finally got him to try tofu… in a cream pie! When he heard it was tofu (after he’d already said he liked it), he became a little less suspicious of tofu :).
Best. cookies. ever! Add a little unsweetened chocolate…and it is even better 😀 😀 😀
And I cook for myself a lot, but I also cook for my family. I might pack them lunch, or make dinner sometimes…
Haha pretty much anything is better with chocolate. I’ve been munching on my ghirardelli 100% bar all day long… running out and needing to get to the store to buy another!