About this Recipe

Many years ago, as a young mother with school-age children, each day around 3 pm I was most likely in my kitchen baking peanut butter cookies. Or making popcorn (one of our favorite is Carol’s Caramel Corn). Perhaps I was cooking the stovetop type of Chocolate Oatmeal No-Bake Cookies. All of those were favorites of my kids.

I planned the baking so the smell would fill the house and greet them when they walked in the door coming home from school. With every ingredient, I was making memories for my family. I learned this from my childhood days. When I was a young girl, when my brothers and I walked in the door from school, my momma always had something ready, like a plate of her peanut butter cookies. I still remember the smell that filled our home. Good memories!

Through the years, I added this Peanut Butter Cookie recipe to my arsenal.  It’s a simpler recipe than the one my momma baked, but even so, they are yummy and good. I still make the old-fashioned ones occassionally. Both recipes are the best of the best!

I need some kids to walk in the door and rescue me. These cookies, especially fresh out of the oven, are hard to resist.

Let’s bake cookies and make some memories!

Ingredients and Directions

1 cup smooth peanut butter
1 whole egg
1 cup granulated sugar

Mix together all ingredients. Roll dough into balls and place on a baking sheet. Press with tines of a fork to flatten. Bake at 350 degrees for 7-8 minutes. Cookies will be soft when taken out of the oven.

Allow to set 10 minutes before serving.