Four-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies | www.girlversusdough.com @stephmwise

These cookies are my love letter to peanut butter and chocolate.

When you have cookies that are made with four ingredients, two of those ingredients being peanut butter and chocolate — a.k.a., The Ultimate Flavor Combination, the one for which I have an undying love, the one that will always make me weak in the knees in any and all forms from cakes to ice cream to oatmeal (yes, really.) to these cookies — you know you’re in for greatness.

Should we all take a moment to write our love letters to peanut butter and chocolate? No? Just move on to the cookies? OK. Cool.

Four-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies | www.girlversusdough.com @stephmwise

This recipe comes straight from the ever-lovely Christina of Dessert for Two’s new cookbook of the same name. The book is filled with beautiful stories and photos and recipes of the Southern/Midwestern/Californian/YUMGETTHATINMYBELLY variety all pared down for two. And it is truly a reflection of Christina herself — captivating, sweet, heartwarming, charming. I was hooked from the first page.

And guys, I don’t even want to tell you how long it took me to decide which recipe to make first — it was kind of embarrassing. I kept it by my bedside table and read through it every night, bookmarking the recipe I would FOR SURE be making first thing the next day: Chess pie bars. NO, mixed berry crisp. Oooooooh that lemon amaretto rice pudding, though. And what is this magic that is Devil’s Food Cake made with mayonnaise.

Four-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies | www.girlversusdough.com @stephmwise

Four-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies | www.girlversusdough.com @stephmwise

But my aforementioned love of the peanut butter and chocolate just drew me in, as it always does, and I couldn’t say no to these four-ingredient wonders. I also couldn’t say no to the idea of getting cookies from bowl to belly in less than a half-hour.

Four-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies | www.girlversusdough.com @stephmwise

The cookies themselves are made with just three ingredients: Peanut butter, sugar and egg. Had I previously known you could make cookies from those ingredients alone, I’m fairly certain my diet would have consisted of a peanut butter cookie after every meal — including my peanut butter toast breakfast mainstay. And now that I do know, this new diet is probably inevitable. And I like it.

Four-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies | www.girlversusdough.com @stephmwise

The cookies are a little fluffier than what I typically think of when I think of a peanut butter cookie (the kind with flour, that is), but I find the texture refreshingly unique in the realm of cookie-dom. And if you take the cookies out of the oven when they are just slightly underbaked with the edges set, the centers stay moist and soft, almost like the inside of a Reese’s peanut butter cup.

Four-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies | www.girlversusdough.com @stephmwise

Four-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies | www.girlversusdough.com @stephmwise

Christina suggests topping her peanut butter cookies either with chocolate chunks, mini marshmallows, both, or leaving them plain. All options sound obviously delicious, but I had dark chocolate on hand so I coarsely chopped it up and pressed a few pieces on top. As you can see, they melted into lava-like puddles on top and down the sides of the peanut butter cookies into what can only be described as, oh, THE BEST THING EVER. Along with that whole Reese’s peanut butter cup center thing.

Four-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies | www.girlversusdough.com @stephmwise

Christina, thank you for creating this recipe and sharing it with us in your cookbook. And thank you, peanut butter and chocolate, for being so amazing. As for you, dear cookies — I’ll see you after breakfast.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

These flourless peanut butter chocolate chip cookies have just 4 ingredients and don't require chilling!
Servings: 6 cookies
peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
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Ingredients 

Instructions 

  • Heat oven to 350 degrees F. In a small bowl, stir peanut butter, sugar and egg until combined.
  • Scoop or spoon mounds of dough spaced 2 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Lightly press dark chocolate chunks onto top of dough.
  • Bake 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown and set. Cool cookies 3 minutes on baking sheet, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.

Notes

From the Dessert For Two Cookbook

Nutrition

Calories: 177kcal, Carbohydrates: 15g, Protein: 6g, Fat: 12g, Saturated Fat: 2g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g, Monounsaturated Fat: 6g, Trans Fat: 0.003g, Cholesterol: 27mg, Sodium: 103mg, Potassium: 132mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 12g, Vitamin A: 40IU, Calcium: 15mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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39 Comments

  1. June Burns says:

    Wow, only four ingredients? Guess I really have no excuse to try them 🙂 They look delicious!

  2. Jennie @ The Diary of a Real Housewife says:

    These look so yummy!

  3. Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says:

    love Christina.

    love choc + pb.

    love those melty chocolate tops.

    LOOOVE these cookies!

  4. Carol at Wild Goose Tea says:

    These are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay tooooooooo easy to be bad, when you shouldn’t
    be bad. Look how melty the chocolate is. Dang I wish I hadn’t seen this recipe!

  5. Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel says:

    Now THESE are swoon-worthy! I’m loving every drippy puddle of melty chocolate. YUM! Pinned 😀

  6. Kristine @ Kristine's Kitchen says:

    The Dessert for Two cookbook is on my wish list. I love that these cookies have only 4 ingredients… and those melty chocolate chunks, oh my!

  7. Nicole says:

    So you’re telling me I’m only 4 ingredients away from these delicious cookies? DONE. I love how the chocolate just kind of melts and drizzles over the cookie. So pretty.

  8. Phi @ The Sweetphi Blog says:

    OMG peanut butter for life! These peanut butter chunk cookies look amazing, and I love that they only have 4 ingredients, totally going to make these tomorrow!