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WW Recipe of the Day: 4-Ingredient Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
As soon as I saw this recipe for Easiest-Ever Peanut Butter Cookies, in a recent issue of Woman’s Day, I knew I had to give them a try.
What got my attention?
Well, first the name – I’m all about easy, so “Easiest Ever” always piques my interest.
These quick and easy flourless cookies, have only 4 ingredients…
Then there was their size – little button-sized cookies with just 33 calories – perfect for Weight Watchers sized sweet treats!
Actually, when compared to the cookies we ate a few decades ago, they’re normal sized – about 1 to 1-1/2 inches. It’s just that they look small when compared to the giant cookies, now 3 to 4 times bigger, that you see everywhere these days.
The Skinny on 4-Ingredient Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
If you’re interested in learning more about how portions have exploded check out The Portion Teller: Smartsize Your Way to Permanent Weight Loss (affiliate link) by Lisa Young.
In it she explains how portions are enormous compared to what the government defines as a standard serving size and also when compared to what Americans ate thirty years ago.
I found it fascinating!
Finally, they’re made with real peanut butter, one of my favorite foods.
My intuition was right.
This is a winning cookie recipe, making a small batch of little normal-size cookies, perfect for sharing or packing in little pre-portioned zipper bags for the freezer.
They are not too soft, not too sweet, simple and adorable.
I used a tiny little cookie scoop and got 48 cookies, instead of 60, so will make them even smaller next time.
I made half the batch plain and added a few miniature chocolate chips to the remaining half, to give them polka-dots!
Next time I plan on adding a few finely chopped peanuts for added crunch.
How Many Calories/WW Points in these litte 4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies?
According to my calculations, each cookie has about 33 calories and:
1 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
1 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
1 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
1 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
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Peanut Butter Cookie Baking Tips
I used a tiny little ice cream scoop (affiliate link) and then flattened the cookie mounds down a bit before baking. I ended up with 48 little cookies and will make them even smaller next time.
Next time I will add a small amount of finely chopped peanuts for extra crunch. You could get the same effect by using crunchy peanut butter.
If you like these easiest-ever 4-ingredient peanut butter cookies, be sure to check out some of my other easy, healthy Weight Watchers friendly cookie recipes including Coconut Almond Butter Cookies, Easy No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Balls, 4-Ingredient No-Bake “Brownies”, No-Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies, Skinny S’mores Cookies and Easy Orangesicle Cookie Mix Cookies
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Easy 4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Button Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter (creamy or chunky)
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
- Position an oven rack in the center of your oven and then preheat the oven to 350F degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone liners.
- In a large bowl, beat the peanut butter, brown sugar, egg, and baking soda together with an electric mixer (affiliate link) on medium, until well blended.
- Drop level teaspoons of dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing them about 1-1/2 inches apart. (This is a small amount since you want enough for 60 cookies.)
- Bake until the cookies are puffed and starting to lightly brown around the edges, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let cool on the baking sheets placed on wire cooling racks (affiliate link) for 5 minutes. Then transfer the cookies directly to the wire racks to cool completely.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Source: Woman’s Day magazine
A note about WW Points
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More WW Friendly Peanut Butter Cookie Recipes
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- Chocolate Drizzled Peanut Butter Cookies (DrizzleMeSkinny)
- PB & J Healthy Oatmeal Cookies (SkinnyTaste)
- Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies (LaaLoosh)
- Grain-Gree No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookies (DashingDish)
- 3-Ingredient Almond Butter Cookies (SkinnyTaste)
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Banana Cookies (DrizzleMeSkinny)
What kind of peanut butter did ya’ll use?
I like Skippy 🙂
My husband is gluten free, and he loves cookies! These are perfect! He likes them so much that my daughter and I have made the recipe using peanut butter, cashew butter, and almond butter. He’s happy when we have all 3 flavors in separate containers. It’s something all 3 of us can enjoy! Thanks for the recipe
Grammy Faye
I made these because they were 1 WW pt., not expecting they’d be very good, because really, how could something so easy and with no flour or butter be any good? Happy surprise – they were great! I actually like them better than my old-fashioned peanut butter cookie recipe from my mom. The texture is sandier. Perfect for something sweet without a lot of points. Thank you!
Glad you liked them Ellen!
Hi. Can you give me tips on how to transfer these cookies into small muffins. My son prefer muffins over cookies. He want then soft 🙂
Best regards,
Sigríður Halldórsdóttir.