If you love peanut butter cookies, you’re going to love this recipe for air fryer peanut butter cookies. These cookies are quick and easy to make, and they turn out perfect every time. Plus, there’s no need to preheat your oven the air fryer does all the work!
There’s something about peanut butter cookies that just makes them so comforting. Maybe it’s the way they’re soft and chewy, or maybe it’s the slightly salty flavor that pairs perfectly with a glass of cold milk.
Whatever the reason, I can’t resist these cookies! These are certainly my favorite cookie. And now, thanks to the air fryer, I can make them at home without heating up my kitchen.
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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- These cookies only take about 8 minutes to bake in the air fryer and help satisfy your sweet tooth.
- There’s no need to preheat your oven, perfect for those warm days when you don’t want to turn on the oven.
- The air fryer makes it easier than ever to get delicious, perfectly cooked cookies at home!
- You only need a handful of ingredients to make these air fry peanut butter cookies which helps keep your food budget low.
🛒Ingredients
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- Creamy Peanut Butter
- White Sugar
- Large Egg
See the recipe card below for quantities.
🔪 How to Make Air Fryer Peanut Butter Cookies
Combine all three ingredients in a medium mixing bowl. Mix until fully combined.
Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Using a 1 ½-inch cookie scoop, or heaping tablespoon, drop dough onto a piece of parchment paper.
Using a fork, press the cookie flat, first one direction, then again from the opposite direction to make crosshatch fork marks.
Line the bottom of your air fryer with parchment paper. Be sure to not have extra parchment paper running up the side of the air fryer or it will get caught by the air and fold over the cookies.
Place as many cookies in your air fryer that will fit, while giving each cookie a half-inch space. I was able to do about 4-6 at a time.
Set your air fryer at 370 degrees and bake cookies for 4 minutes before letting them rest in the air fryer for 4 minutes.
Repeat until you’ve used up your batter. Enjoy!
Hint: I used a basket-style air fryer, but you can use an oven-style air fryer also.
📝Variations
Do you want to change up this recipe and make it your own? Here are some ways that you can do that!
Chocolate Chips – Stir in half a cup of chocolate chips for a chocolatey flavor.
Low Carb – Make these delicious cookies low-carb by using your favorite sugar substitute
Vanilla Extract– add a dash of vanilla extract for extra flavor.
Chia Egg – You can use a chia egg instead of a regular egg if you have an allergy.
Crunch Peanut Butter – Crunchy peanut butter will give your sweet treat an extra crunch.
Peanut Butter Chips – Add peanut butter chips will give these delicious peanut butter cookies extra flavor.
If you love cookie recipes, check out this Rainbow Chip Cookies recipe.
🥄 Equipment
- air fryer
- parchment sheets or parchment liners
- fork
- Medium or large bowl
- measuring cup
🥫 Storage
You can also freeze these cookies for up to three months in a freezer bag or freezer-safe container.
💭 Tips
- The key to making the best air fryer cookies is chilling them first. The cold temperature helps keep your cookie dough from spreading too much and gives you excellent results.
- Touching the cookies before they’ve fully cooled will cause them to fall apart. Allow at least 4 minutes for cooling, then remove from the air fryer safely!
- Cut the parchment paper to the shape of your air fryer and add the cookie dough to the parchment sheet. Then you can just slide the parchment into the basket and be ready to cook.
- Be sure to allow some space around the cookies in the air fryer because they will spread. Don’t overcrowd your air fryer basket.
- Putting more or fewer cookies in the air fryer doesn’t require you to adjust the cooking time or rest time.
- This cookie dough is very sticky and not firm, the chilling process will help firm up the cookies.
- If your air fryer doesn’t have a digital temperature setting it is better to use a lower temperature setting and cook longer than a higher one.
- If you are using natural peanut butter, I recommend adding an additional 10 minutes to the chill time.
- I don’t recommend using your hands to make balls of dough the dough is too sticky. A medium cookie scoop or spoons is the easy way.
- Instead of shaping your own parchment paper, you can line your air-fryer basket with a precut parchment liner.
⁉️ FAQ
Do you have questions about this peanut butter cookies in air fryer recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
Yes! You can use your air fryer to make tons of different cookies, like this one.
Cookie dough bakes in an air fryer just like in an oven, but usually quicker.
These air fryer peanut butter cookies should be air-fried at 370 degrees.
Yes, this 3-ingredient peanut butter cookie recipe, can be baked in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes or until they are golden brown.
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Air Fryer Peanut Butter Cookies
Equipment
- Air Fryer
- Parchment Paper
- Fork
- Mixing Bowl
Ingredients
- 1 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
- ¾ cup Sugar
- 1 Large Egg
Instructions
- Combine all three ingredients in a medium mixing bowl. Mix until fully combined.
- Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Using a 1 ½-inch cookie scoop, or heaping tablespoon, scoop the dough onto parchment paper.
- Using a fork, press the cookie flat, first one direction, then again from the opposite direction to make a crosshatch pattern on top.
- Line the bottom of your air fryer with parchment paper. Be sure to not have extra parchment paper running up the side of the air fryer or it will get caught by the air and fold over the cookies.
- Place as many cookies in your air fryer that will fit, while giving each cookie a half inch space. I was able to do about 4-6 at a time.
- Set your air fryer at 370 degrees and cook them for 4 minutes before letting them rest in the air fryer for 4 minutes.
- Repeat until you’ve used up your batter. Enjoy!
Notes
- The key to making the best air fryer cookies is chilling them first. The cold temperature helps keep your cookie dough from spreading too much and gives you excellent results.
- Touching the cookies before they’ve fully cooled will cause them to fall apart. Allow at least 4 minutes for cooling, then remove from the air fryer safely!
- Cut the parchment paper to the shape of your air fryer and add the cookie dough to the parchment sheet. Then you can just slide the parchment into the basket and be ready to cook.
- Be sure to allow some space around the cookies in the air fryer because they will spread. Don’t overcrowd your air fryer basket.
- Putting more or fewer cookies in the air fryer doesn’t require you to adjust the cooking time or rest time.
- This cookie dough is very sticky and not firm, the chilling process will help firm up the cookies.
- If your air fryer doesn’t have a digital temperature setting it is better to use a lower temperature setting and cook longer than a higher one.
- If you are using natural peanut butter, I recommend adding an additional 10 minutes to the chill time.
- I don’t recommend using your hands to make balls of dough the dough is too sticky. A medium cookie scoop or spoons is the easy way.
- Instead of shaping your own parchment paper, you can line your air-fryer basket with a precut parchment liner.
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