Our Air Fryer Peanut Butter Cookies are ready in half the time compared to the traditional recipe! There’s only 7 minutes between you and a tasty homemade treat!
These Air Fryer Peanut Butter Cookies are a quick and easy snack or dessert in no time flat!
These air fryer cookies are as simple as can be with creamy peanut butter, all purpose flour (regular or gluten-free!), softened butter, any milk, one egg, brown sugar, and white sugar.
Don’t forget the fork for those classic lines on top!
Want your dessert for breakfast? Try our Air Fryer Donuts for bite-size pillows of dough covered in cinnamon sugar!
What You’ll Need
- Flour: regular all-purpose or gluten-free will do.
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Butter: Let it soften to room temperature beforehand
- Peanut butter: I prefer smooth peanut butter, but no judgment if you prefer crunchy!
- Brown sugar
- Sugar
- Egg
- Milk: dairy or non-dairy will do
How to Make Them
Choose your own milk here — dairy isn’t required.
- Mix together your all-purpose flour and baking soda. Regular or gluten-free flour works in this recipe!
- In a second bowl, mix together the softened butter and peanut butter — you may want to get out your electric mixer here! Once mixed, add the sugars.
- Add your egg and the milk and mix before slowly adding the flour and baking soda. Mix to combine into your dough. Form the dough into balls, about a tablespoon each, and use a fork to smash the top.
- Place the cookies into your air fryer basket and cook for 6 to 7 minutes at 350 degrees F (or 180 degrees C!) until golden brown. Allow your cookies to cool completely before serving for a solid, crunchy cookie. Enjoy!
How to Freeze Them
These cookies are perfect for making ahead and freezing them for later!
Here’s how:
- Form cookies with your fork and move them to parchment paper to freeze.
- Once frozen, these raw cookies can last a few months in the freezer.
- Thaw them before baking if you have time or, if not, add a few minutes to the cook time and check them every 5 minutes.
Variations to Try
I use creamy peanut butter, but if you like crunchy, use that! You may end up with less perfectly smooth dough but you’ll get an extra crunch in every bite!
- Add in some nuts like walnuts or pecans.
- Love chocolate? So does peanut butter! Throw in a few chocolate chips, the smaller the better.
- Make it an even more fall recipe with cinnamon chips instead of chocolate!
For any additions, gently fold them into the dough in the final step to keep them from sinking to the bottom during baking.
More Air Fryer Desserts to Try!
Raise your hand if you love desserts? We do!
If you love desserts, you need to check out some of our favorite dessert recipes: Air Fryer Monkey Bread, Spiced Apples in the Air Fryer, Air Fryer Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins, French Toast in the Air Fryer, Air Fryer Cupcakes and Apple Crisp in the Air Fryer
Air Fryer Peanut Butter Cookies
Equipment
- Electric mixer, optional
- 2 mixing bowls
- Fork
- Air fryer
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups all purpose flour regular or gluten free
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup butter softened to room temperature
- ½ cup peanut butter smooth
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar
- egg
- 2 tablespoons milk dairy or non-dairy
Instructions
- In a medium sized bowl, mix together all purpose flour and baking soda. Set aside.
- In another bowl, mix together softened butter and peanut butter. It may help to use an electric mixer. Add sugars and mix until well combined.
- Next, add the egg and milk. Mix well to combine.
- Slowly add the flour mixture in small increments. Mix until just combined. Do not overmix.
- Roll about a tablespoon of cookie dough into a ball. Use a fork to flatten the cookie. Place cookies into air fryer basket or onto air fryer tray.
- Air fry the cookies for 6 to 7 minutes at 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C.
- Remove cookies from air fryer. Cookies should rest until completely cool to strengthen. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition Information
I had no idea you could bake in an air fryer! What an awesome idea!
Thank you for stopping by and checking it out! Enjoy!
Only 7 minutes! Hard to believe that is only you need for such a tasty homemade treat. Another reminder that I need to get an air fryer!
Thanks for checking out it! Be sure to come back and let us know how it turned out for you! 🙂
I have never made cookies in the air fryer – these sound amazing!
You are very welcome! Enjoy!
I definitely need to get an air fryer – so many amazing recipes floating around lately! These PB cookies look absolutely divine.
Be sure to come back and let us know how you enjoyed it!
Such a smart idea! I’m curious, are the cookies soft or more crumbly?
A little more crumbly, the air circulation dries them out quicker 🙂
i love my air fryer – i have the paula deen – the best nonstick! definitely trying these cookies this weekend
What a great way to make the most out of the air fryer! The best part is it only takes a 7 minutes to cook 😀
What a great recipe for the air fryer! The best part is it only needs 7 minutes to cook 😀
Just 7 minutes for this tasty homemade peanut butter cookie recipe? Oh yes! This is amazing!
Wow I never even thought about making cookies in the air fryer before. What a great idea and the kids will love these!
Can you use natural peanut butter instead of creamy? And would it make the cookies less dry?? Going to make these today!
Hello Jeanne! I think natural should work. If the consistency of the dough seems try you could add 1 T of liquid (milk) to help. You could adjust accordingly :). I haven’t tried with natural so I can’t speak with certainly but that is how I think it would work 🙂