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 1-½ 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)
- ¾ cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- ¾ 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 1-½ 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.
Recipe Notes
Source: Woman's Day magazine
*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.
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Mireya @myhealthyeatinghabits
Hi Martha,
I'm not so sure how I'll like them without the flour, bit I 'll make them for my soahem see how he likes them. I don't understand why people haven't made the connection about portion control.
Martha
Will be interested to learn how you liked them, Mireya. My mom really liked them and she can be a tough critic!
kassie
Not everyone can have flour, in my case it gives me migraines.
Victoria Newcomer
Oh, they're surprisingly good! I have made these quite a few time before even seeing the recipe on WW. You won't miss the flour.
Marie
Hi,
These sound delicious and i can't wait to try them! i was just wondering if you could use PB2 instead and how much you would need to use.
Thanks!
Martha
Hi Marie,
I really don't know about substituting PB2 since I haven't tried. My concern is that without the fat from regular peanut butter, the cookies would be too dry/crumbly. If you try it and are successful, I'd love to hear!
Danita
Just want to let you my cookies came out wonderful thank you so much for the recipe
Emily Bradley
Mine just came out of the oven. I tried to make them small, but I still only got 45. Can't imagine how tiny they'd have to be to get 60. They look good though.
Martha McKinnon
Yes, Emily. They are meant to be little cookies! I think it's always a shock when we start to think of sweet treats as mini snacks especially when compared to all the gargantuan ones you see out at places like Panera and Starbucks and Costco, etc!!
Tracy
I made these and added cinnamon to the mixture.
Pretty good!
I'm not a big fan of peanut butter but in the biscuits it was great and will be great with a glass of milk
Martha McKinnon
Thanks Tracy!
noradobson
Made them and just love them!! I made 30 instead of 60 so they count as 2 smart points each. I can't wait to share the recipe at my Weight Watchers meeting-thanks soooo much!
Martha McKinnon
Thanks for letting me know!!
Beth
I made these and followed the directions and in the reciepe builder it states that they are 2 points each.
Emily D.
I got 1pt a piece when I put them in the recipe builder, but when I tracked the 2 cookies I ate, it came out to 3pts. 🙁
Sarah
Yum! These were super easy to make with my 3-year-old and they are so, so good. Thanks for posting!
Linda
I made these today & they are GREAT!!!!
Barbara Smith
Just made these for my son-in- law! I love them, hope he does...thanks for recipe.
Emily D.
I would try to track how many cookies I’m going to eat before I eat them. I ate 2 cookies thinking that it would be 2pts, but it was 3pts. I’m still fairly new to WW, so I didn’t expect the points to go up like that. Just a heads up for everyone else. These are delicious cookies though!
Sharn
Love Love Love them!!!!! Thank you so much for a delicious recipe! My whole family loves them and I have been making them over and over again.
Gwyned Hill
Holy cow!! 60? or 48?..I got 24 cookies using a mini melon baller. they are regular size cookies so I guess I could cut them in half. I made some changes just trying to reduce WW points and sugar ( I'm diabetic)...I reduced the sugar to 1/2 cup and made up the other 1/4 using 2 tablespoons truvia baking blend. I also reduced the peanut butter to 3/4 cup and made up the remaining 1/4 cup with PB2 ( 4 tablespoons mixed with water till consistency of regular peanut butter). I added 2 tablespoons flour to make it the dough thicker. They were really good. surprisingly chewy, not crumbly and had a good p-nut butter taste. They are 3 WW freestyle points each.
Martha McKinnon
Thanks for sharing your changes with us Gwyned. They sound really delicious! - Martha
Katie
Extremely easy to make! Thank you!!
I baked them for 8 minutes using my convection oven and they were a hit! Very tasty and will bake them again. I made 36 cookies and felt that any smaller would be super tiny. Knowing that the larger the size the more smart points they are, but they’re worth it! ?
The video shows vanilla was added, but I did not add the vanilla. I followed the typed recipe.
Martha McKinnon
Hi Katie, So happy to hear you liked them!!
Joyce Gordon
They are delicious. I don't care for regular peanut butter cookies, but these, I love. They are like a potato chip ad, bet you can't eat just one.
Arlene Christy
Thanks for the recipe. I am going to try them. Might make minor changes. Hope they work out.
Vicki Greenwell
Final a cookie recipe that is easy and delicious. These are so good and hits the sweet spot. It’s amazing there rich but crunchy?
Kathy Kirschenman
Can you use PB2 instead of real peanut butter?
Martha McKinnon
I haven't tried with anything other than real peanut butter.
Ann
Best Weight Watchers cookie recipe I have ever found. I had to make more quickly, my husband devoured them.
Deb
I’ve made peanut butter cookies for my kids and grandkids for the first day of school for over 35 years. I tried this recipe today and my son and his family went crazy over them. So quick and easy. Definitely a keeper.