Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
These peanut butter cookies are full of peanut buttery goodness!
The holidays are upon us. This time of year, it’s soooo easy to fall off track with our eating plans. Holiday parties, big dinners, and treats everywhere we go seem to attempt to sabotage us at every turn.
I always have a rough time around the holidays. Not necessarily because I don’t eat clean, but because I tend to eat more. There is food everywhere I go!
One of the things I love most about the holidays is the cookies. But because I’ve been eating clean for so long now, I actually do not like regular, store-bought cookies anymore. I prefer the homemade ones. Cookies that may not be best friends with my waistline, but at the very least, will give my body some better nutrition.
These cookies are a case in point. They are a little high in calories and fat, but the ingredients are clean and wholesome. So at the very least, I can feel somewhat better about indulging this season. And at least with these, I don’t have a tendency to overeat because my body isn’t getting hooked on all the refined garbage found in commercial cookies.
So enjoy these in moderation, but do enjoy them. It is the holiday season, after all. If you can’t enjoy a good cookie now, when can you?
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NOTE: This is adapted from a Paula Dean recipe that is no longer on the Food Network.
Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter (no sugar added)
- ¾ cup honey
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- ½ cup whole wheat pastry flour
- ½ cup peanuts (optional)
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until well combined.
- Using two teaspoons, scoop and drop the cookies onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350 F. for 12-14 minutes. You may need to experiment with the timing on these because the thicker they are, the longer they take. 12 minutes is about right if you make them no thicker than ½ inch. These cookies will bake up exactly as they are on the cookie sheet. No spreading.
- Remove from oven and cool.
I’m gluten intolerant, but LOVE peanut butter. Do you think an almond/flax meal replacement of the whole wheat flour would be successful in this recipe?
Giggles Two – I really don’t know anything about gluten free baking. But cookies are pretty forgiving. You might be able to get away with it.
I make peanut butter cookies using sucanat and without the whole wheat flour and they turned out sooo good!!
Talisha – Fantastic!
Thank you for these! Can’t wait to try them!
Diana – You’re welcome! I hope you enjoy them!
My cousin gave me a similar recipe today, but it called for 1 c. brown sugar and 1 c. peanut butter and one egg. I will have to try this. Trying to make a few clean versions for the holidays. My regular cookies are usually for get togethers and gifts, so I don’t have to eat as many of them!
Stephanie – Good strategy!
I use sucanat too because it gives it that brown sugar type flavor. I have also made them with honey and their good too! Now if only someone made a clean chocolate kiss for the PB Blossom cookies!
Lynn – Hmmm…. I smell a challenge coming on…. Haha!
I appreciate your recipe and hope to try it sometime.
Laurie – I hope you enjoy it when you do!
Stephanie – That’s what I do. It does change them a bit, but I find that they are still yummy. They are more dense and hearty.
SS – Wonderful! I know nothing about gluten free cooking/baking, so I don’t touch on it much. Glad to know it works!
Dicraw – 350 degrees F.
Kim – It’s possible! I’ve never tried, but it’s certainly worth a shot! Let me know how they turn out!
Karleylew – Yes, sorry.
Vanessa – I’m working on the gingerbread, and here is the eggnog. Enjoy!
https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/clean-eating-eggnog/
Vanessa – That’s great!
BJ – Thanks for trying my recipe! Glad you enjoyed it!
I just made these and they are crazy good!!! We can’t stop eating them. I ran out of regular honey so I used raw honey. Yum! Thank you for a yummy sweet treat recipe.
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed them!
Karen – Fantastic!
Tara – You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed them!
Lynda – Fantastic!!
Jmeyer – Yes you can.