Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
Printable Recipe*Makes 30 cookies
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 Cup butter, softened
1/2 Cup honey or xagave
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1 Cup peanut butter
1-1/2 Cup whole grain flour (my choice would be oat flour or wonder flour)
1 Cup rolled or quick oats
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350. In a stand mixer, combine the butter and honey (or xagave) and mix for about one minute. Add the egg, vanilla and peanut butter and beat for another minute or until smooth. In a separate bowl combine together the dry ingredients and mix. Slowly add the dry ingredients to wet and mix to incorporate. Scoop dough into two tablespoon amounts and drop onto ungreased cookie sheet. Using a fork, press gently down on each ball of dough to make a checkerboard pattern. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes or until slightly brown.
*Recipe Source: Adapted from Weelicious
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5 comments:
These are not sugar free.... Once honey or sugar pass your lips, your body treats it just as it would sugar.... No difference! Don't fool yourself!!
Interesting comment and I'd love to see some research to back that up. For me going without sugar means different than just eliminating treats from my diet. I don't think that's healthy at all. Instead it means using "healthier" sugars in my diet. I believe that the closer to natural the sugar the better for you. Raw honey is about as natural a sweetener as you can get.
These were delicious! After a few weeks with no sugar, I thought I deserved a healthy treat. These were quick and easy to make and came out perfect. Thank you for sharing!
I appreciate recipes using natural sugars! There is absolutely a big difference between processed sugar and natural sugar. Our bodies recognize it and can process it. Sugar should be eaten sparingly of course. But when we do eat it, it should always be natural sugar! Haven't put these in the oven yet but the dough is delicious :-)
The anonymous commenter was somewhat right. Natural sweeteners may have more antioxidants or nutritive value (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26852154) but they are still high in carbohydrates with honey having an only marginally lower score in the glycemic index (http://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/glycemic-index). It is still carbohydrate and still processed as any other carbohydrate would be. By changing to natural sugar you are in no way eliminating sugars from your diet, whether they are or are not "healthier." This isn't a sugar free recipe, it's free of refined sugar. It's not just semantics, there's a big difference.
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