I have had a craving for peanut butter cookies for a long time. I haven't had peanut butter since I started losing weight 10 months ago. I love peanut butter but it has so many calories and while it is good fat it is still fat. Trust me, I get enough fat in my diet without peanut butter.
Earlier today I made little raspberry cookies for miles that had only 20 calories a cookie. I figured I could tinker this recipe a little to make it peanut butter chocolate instead of raspberry chocolate. It took a lot more tinkering than I imagined and this cookies have 10 more calories a cookie than the raspberry but when we are talking about 30 calories total that is a lot more. In the end they were totally worth it as they met my craving and now I can move on...maybe.
Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 3 tbsp Splenda
- 6 tbsp flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1.5 tbsp light butter melted
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp peanut butter
- 2-3 tbsp water
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Sift dry ingredients together. Add wet ingredients and mix adding more water if needed to get a crumbly but manageable dough. Dough will be very dry.
- Smash into small flat disks. Bake for 7-8 minutes.
