Love peanut butter cookies but want to reduce the calories, increase the fiber and add heart healthy ingredients without sacrificing taste? You have come to the right place. The addition of flax meal adds heart healthy omega 3 fatty acids to the recipe. Flax also adds it own nutty taste to the cookies. This soft peanut butter cookie recipe will totally satisfy anyone.

Now you have a soft peanut butter cookie recipe that has all the flavor but without the unwanted calories. The recipe is very flexible. Want slightly crispier peanut butter cookies? Flatten the dough and make a thinner cookie. This will produce a cookie with a different texture. We usually make half soft and half crispy.

This soft peanut butter cookie recipe can be modified for different tastes. Try adding finely chopped raisins for a sweet and spicy taste. This recipe is not like your traditional peanut butter cookie. The flavors are more complex. You do not have a totally dominate peanut butter taste. You first taste peanut butter then the oat taste appears followed by a lingering peanut with a hint of cinnamon. This recipe adds a bit of cinnamon in your diet. Cinnamon is very good for help managing blood sugar.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup MoreFiber or NuStevia Sweetener Stevia Baking Blend/li>
  • 1/2 cup Sweet Health Erythritol
  • 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 1 egg
  • 3/4 cup unbleached white flour
  • 1/4 cup flax meal
  • 1/4 cup rolled oats
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions

  1. Cream the butter, peanut butter, Stevia Baking Blend, and Erythritol 2 minutes until smooth. Add egg and beat 1 more minute. Mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir into the sugar butter mixture.
  2. Wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate at least 3 hours.
  3. Preheat oven to 375°F(350 in convection oven).
  4. Flatten in crisscross pattern with a fork.
  5. Bake until light brown, 9 to 10 minutes.
  6. Cool on baking sheets for a couple minutes.
  7. Transfer to rack.

Makes about 40 cookies.

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Submitted by on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 07:31