Lower Calorie Peanut Butter Cookies
"This recipe makes a small batch of dense, fudge-like and very peanut buttery cookies, but much lower in calories for those of us who try to be careful. I have always loved peanut butter, but I can't get on board with how greasy most peanut butter cookies are. As this recipe does not use butter, the cookies come out much less greasy, but without being dry. This will not produce a classic peanut butter cookie, so if that's what you're after, you'll come away disappointed. But it does make a very nice, thick-textured sweet treat for peanut butter lovers."
- Ready In:
- 14mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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12 cookies
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup reduced-fat peanut butter
- 1⁄2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 egg white
- 3⁄4 cup Splenda granular
- 2 tablespoons skim milk, plus extra as needed
directions
- Oven 375.
- In small mixing bowl, cream peanut butter and flour by adding the flour gradually.
- Add baking soda and egg white.
- Gradually add in Splenda.
- Add milk (batter will be crumbly at this point) plus extra, a half-teaspoonful at a time until batter is the correct consistency. Be careful not to get it too wet, add just enough milk that it sticks together in the usual cookie dough form.
- Drop by teaspoonsful onto greased cookie sheet and shape into round cookies with your spoons. They will not spread, so you can fit them all on the same sheet. If desired, sprinkle tops with sugar, but they are also good without.
- Bake 9 minutes. Allow to cool on cookie sheet for a few minutes before moving.
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Reviews
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These cookies taste great, but how do you get 19 calories per cookie? I'm getting about 80! -
You're right, it's not the usual PB cookie, but it is definitely a nice tasting peanut butter treat, & that's what I was after when we had some PB-loving visitors who need something like this! Thanks for sharing a great recipe! [Tagged, made & reviewed in New Kids on the Block tag]
