This recipe is from the Bakerella Blog – I was thrilled to see how easy this recipe is! 3 ingredients. THREE! That’s it. She added beauty to hers with melted chocolate and crushed peanuts, and I squeezed lines of Dark chocolate over mine, but i’m not going to add that to the ingredients list, because as they say – 3 is the magic number!
Ingredients
1 cup Peanut Butter
1/2 cup Sugar (I used Raw Sugar)
1 egg
That’s it.
Method
1. Preheat oven to 160 celcius
2. Chuck everything into a bowl and mix together (I used my hands)
3. At this point Lady Bakerella puts the mix into the fridge for 30 minutes. I cooked these up on the hottest winter’s day on record (35.4 degrees) and I thought it was unneccessary. But please do it if you wish.
4. Roll into 1.5cm wide balls, place on ungreased tray, and press down in a criss-cross pattern with a fork.
5. Pop in the oven for about 15-20 minutes.
6. Cool on tray for 5 mins, then cool completely on a wire rack.
7. Grab about 100g of dark chocolate, break it up and put it in a zip lock bag. Heat in the microwave in short bursts. Massage the chocolate around in the bag until it is all melted.
8. Close up the zip lock bag and squeeze out any air. Snip a tiny corner off the bag with a pair of scissors and with a swift hand, squeeze it over the peanut cookies in lines – back and forth. Now go the other way.
9. Wait for for chocolate to set… now DEVOUR!
Hold on a minute! There is an even easier way to make these cookies! Roll em up, press a Nestle dark chocolate melt on the top – and pop them in the oven. DONE! no mucking around, it’s EASY! Whoo Hoo! This second batch took me literally 5 minutes from grabbing the ingredients from the cupboard to chucking them in the oven. Love it!
That’s a very dangerous recipe!!! I can’t wait to make it
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Oh. My. God. These look awesome. And so simple! I love when the core of something is this simple and it feels like you could do a million things to add detail and dress it up!
…Like drizzle with chocolate; or I wonder if you plop a blob of jam in the middle and do jam drops?
Brilliant, anyway. Just brilliant!
One of the ideas that someone came up with for the original recipe was to roll the little balls of batter in sugar, then press a chocolate melt on top. I’m going to try that one next time.
I have made these with the simple addition of chocolate chips the to recipe. Not exactly a a revalation but went down a treat at work!
Unfortunately I didn’t have work the next day after I made these, so we had to eat them all ourselves. What a pity!
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Those look delicious, and they do look nice and easy. The fork design is always fun too!
do you think natural peanut butter works here?
Hi Elizabeth,
oh absolutely! The more natural, the better i say.
yummo!!! minor dilemma with the chocolate but the biscuits were delicious!