Salty Peanut Butter Cookies

No Flour Needed!

Ingredients:

1 cup peanut butter*

1 cup sugar

1 large egg, lightly beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

course sea salt

*Use regular peanut butter only.  Whipped peanut butter does not make a firm enough dough.

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Place oven racks in the upper and lower third of the oven.

In a medium bowl, mix the peanut butter, sugar, egg and vanilla until well combined. Spoon 1 tablespoon of mixture about 1 inch apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Flatten the mounds with the tines of a fork, making a crosshatch pattern on the cookies. Sprinkle coarse salt on top of the cookies.

Bake until golden around edges, about 10 minutes, switching the position of the pans halfway thorough baking. Transfer to racks to cool. 

Additions And Variations:

Add peanut butter chips, mini chocolate chips, or shredded coconut to the batter.  Turn them into PB&J cookies by making a thumb print indention in each cookie and adding jelly to it. Try peanut butter chocolate cookies by melting chocolate chips in the microwave and drizzling lines of chocolate over cookies with a fork.