Single-Serving Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cookie

• servings: 1 item
• total time: 16 minutes

Ingredients

2 tablespoons peanut butter, preferably natural

2 tablespoons heaping, quick-cooking or instant oats

1 teaspoon confectioners’ sugar

1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 tablespoon semisweet chocolate chips

1 pinch flaky sea salt, for garnish (optional)

Directions

Stir the peanut butter, oats, sugar, and vanilla together in a small bowl until completely combined. Using your fingers, shape the mixture into a 2 1/2-inch-wide (6-cm), 1/2-inch-thick (12-mm) disk. Press the tines of a fork into the top of the cookie. Chill on a parchment-lined plate in the freezer until firm, about 5 minutes.

Once the cookie is cold and hard, melt the chocolate in the microwave in 15-second bursts until stirrable. Spread half the chilled cookie with the chocolate, and sprinkle with a little flaky sea salt, if you like. The chocolate should set when it hits the cold cookie, but if it doesn’t, you can return it to the freezer for a minute or two.