Peanut Butter Protein Cookies – Cookie Insanity

I’ve all the time preferred making Peanut Butter Protein Cookies, however my previous recipe had a variety of components, and an excessive amount of sugar for a supposedly “wholesome” cookie. My objective this weekend was to create a brand new model with a less complicated ingredient checklist, little or no sugar and — plot twist — no whey protein powder. It cranks up my migraine signs, so I’ve switched to pure peanut powder. And I did not wish to use eggs both, so these are additionally egg-free.

Peanut Butter Protein Cookies recipe with peanut powder.

These protein cookies are simple and a variety of enjoyable since you simply stir every thing collectively. Their texture is smooth and crumbly, and they aren’t terribly candy, however slightly very robust on peanut butter. The cookies are going to be totally different from kitchen to kitchen based mostly on the model of peanut butter and sort of sweetener. Choosing the right sweetener was powerful!

Sweetening Peanut Butter Protein Cookies

First, I examined with brown sugar. As typical, it was the very best. Subsequent up was Truvia Candy & Full Brown. My style tester (Todd) preferred the Truvia, however I did not love the cool mouth impact. They did have the very best texture, so in case you like Truvia and are usually not delicate to the aftertaste, that may be a good selection. Allulose powder was subsequent, and as predicted the cookies got here out means too smooth, plus I wanted virtually a half cup to get any sweetness. And I did one other take a look at with Monk Fruit within the Uncooked, which resulted in bizarre textured cookies that weren’t candy sufficient. Once I get round to ordering some, I will be making the following batches with Magic Baker or Swerve Brown.

Ingredient Rundown

Peanut Butter — Teddie salted, easy peanut butter or Pure Skippy. Teddie just isn’t sweetened, whereas Pure Skippy is and will provide you with a sweeter cookie. Each work effectively.
Greek Yogurt — Complete milk sort, however yogurt with much less fats shall be tremendous.
Sweetener — See above! Your favourite or simply use brown sugar or weigh out 60 grams of coconut sugar.
Pure Peanut Butter Powder — Richard’s model, however any ought to work. Use 24 grams, which is ¼ cup
Almond Flour — King Arthur Blanched Further Nice
Salt — Cookies solely want the tiniest pinch as a result of there’s salt within the peanut butter. If utilizing unsalted peanut butter, use an even bigger pinch
Chocolate Chips — I used Ghirardelli Bittersweet for the cookies within the pictures.
Vanilla — Kirkland

Recipe

Peanut Butter Protein Cookies New Improved Model!

Anna

Makes 10 cookies. Diet counts will fluctuate based mostly on sweetener used.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook dinner Time 11 minutes

Cooling Time 15 minutes

Complete Time 36 minutes

Course Dessert

Delicacies American

Servings 10 cookies

Energy 88 kcal

Substances

¼ cup peanut butter, sweetened or unsweetened (64 grams)
¼ cup Greek yogurt (60 grams)
¼ cup brown sugar mix erythritol mix with like Truvia, Swerve or Magic Baker OR packed brown sugar (55-60 grams)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 tablespoons peanut powder (24 grams)
2 tablespoons finely floor almond flour (16 grams)
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 tiny pinch of salt
¼ cup Ghirardelli bittersweet chips (42 grams)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F . Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Combine collectively the peanut butter, Greek yogurt, brown sugar and vanilla extract.
In one other bowl, whisk collectively the peanut butter powder, almond flour, baking soda and salt and add to peanut butter combination. Stir to kind a smooth dough. If the dough could be very dry, add ½ teaspoon of water or almond milk simply till holds collectively. I didn’t have issues with dryness, however this might fluctuate with manufacturers of peanut butter and kinds of sweetener.
Stir within the chocolate chips or wait and poke them in later.
Form dough into 10 balls, then flatten barely with a fork for a traditional peanut butter cookie look or simply press down calmly. If you happen to did not combine the chips in already, poke chips within the cookie rounds.
Bake for 9–12 minutes, till edges are golden.
Let cool on the pan for five minutes earlier than transferring to a wire rack. Let cool utterly earlier than consuming. The feel actually improves when the cookies are utterly cool. I generally velocity issues up by placing them within the freezer.

Notes

The macros are for Truvia or one other zero calorie sweetener. With brown sugar, the numbers I get are 110 energy, 6 grams fats, 11 carbohydrates and 4 grams of protein.