Fast & Easy 3 Ingredient Cookies

Quick & Simple Three Ingredients Cookie & Bar Recipes

© Janienne Jennrich

Homemade Cookies Photo, Photo Courtesy of SXC

Easy recipes with only 3 ingredients. For holidays or any day, these great cookies & bars make the best snacks, gifts & party foods. Good recipes for kids to help make.

Perfect for every day, all the following recipes use just three ingredients and a prepared baking sheet. These recipes are super easy, super fast, and super good.

Easy 3 Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies Recipe with Variation Ideas

This recipe makes yummy little cookies that can be prepared in about 5 minutes. These cookies are easy to make with kids and simple to adapt to taste or to special diets (lower sugar, lower fat, etc.). See the many variations listed below.

Makes about 24 small cookies.

Ingredients:

  1. 2 eggs
  2. 1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix*
  3. 1/2 cup vegetable oil**

To Do:

These do go from done (chewy) to overdone very quickly and so need to be watched carefully.

Other notes:

Additive ideas for the above:

Recipe variation ideas:

Reference note: Some of the above cake mix cookie variation and additive ideas came from allrecipes members' comments on a similar recipe.

Easy 3 Ingredient Butter Shortbread Cookies Recipe

This simple recipe makes a not-too-sweet little buttery cookie that is perfect at a tea party. A good recipe to make with kids, although children may prefer more sugar or a sweet topping.

Makes about 24 small cookies.

Ingredients:

  1. 1 1/2 cups flour
  2. 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  3. 1 cup slightly softened butter

To Do:

These are easy homemade gifts.

Optional:

Before baking, decorate with a light sprinkling of holiday colored decorating sugar, if desired. Adapt to various holidays simply by changing the color of sugar on top.

Make into thumb print cookies by pushing thumb or a spoon into the center of each cookie and topping with a small spoonful of preserves before baking.

Easy No-Bake 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Crackle Cookies

These crisp rice based "cookies" are egg free and gluten free (if gluten free ingredients are used). The number of cookies depends on size made. Children can help make these with supervision (due to using the stove).

Ingredients:

  1. 4 cups crisp rice cereal
  2. 1 package (12 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate chips (or flavored baking chips of choice)
  3. 4 tablespoons peanut butter, heaping

To Do:

Enjoy these easy 3 ingredient recipes. For more easy ideas, read about 3 Ingredients Easy Dessert Recipes, and try this vintage favorite Old-Fashioned Ginger Snaps Recipe.

Sometimes there is not enough time to do everything one wants to do. With super easy 3-ingredient and 4-ingredient cookies, there is always time to enjoy and give gifts of fresh, homemade treats.


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Homemade Cookies Photo, Photo Courtesy of SXC
       


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