Best Healthier Peanut Butter Cookies Recipes

HEALTHIER CLASSIC PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Beat butter, peanut butter, applesauce, white sugar, and brown sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Add eggs and beat until smooth.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, and baking soda in a separate bowl; stir into peanut butter batter. Put batter in refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Roll dough into walnut-sized balls and place 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Flatten each ball with a fork, making a crisscross pattern.
• Bake in preheated oven until cookies begin to brown, about 10 minutes.

VEGAN PEANUT BUTTER OATMEAL COOKIES (HEALTHIER)

Steps:

• In a big bowl combine flours, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and oats. Add in peanuts or chocolate chips and pb chips and stir to combine.
• In a second bowl beat together applesauce, peanut butter, sugars, ground flax seeds and vanilla.
• Add the liquid to the dry ingredients and stir to combine. If your dough seems too wet to handle, add in more flour, if its too dry, add a tad more milk.
• Drop generous tbs full of dough per cookie onto a paper-lined or greased baking sheet leaving some space between the cookies (these wont spread much). Flatten cookies slightly using moistened fingers or a spoon.
• Bake in the preheated oven at 350°F/175°C for about 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. These cookies are more cake-like, so they wont crisp up.
• Allow to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes and then remove to wire racks to cool completely.
• Enjoy! :).

HEALTHIER PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Mix flour, baking soda, and baking powder together.
• Mix peanut butter with 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon applesauce. Add sugar and salt. Mix well. Combine the flour and peanut butter mixtures together and stir well. Drop spoonfuls of dough 2 inches apart onto baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden but centers are still soft, 8 to 9 minutes.

HEALTHIER APPLE PEANUT BUTTER BREAKFAST COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine butters, flax, and sugars in large bowl.
• Beat in eggs and applesauce.
• Combine flour, wheat germ, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon.
• Add flour mixture to creamed mixture at low speed and beat until blended.
• Stir in oats, raisins, apple, and carrot.
• Drop by measuring tablespoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheet. (I used a medium Pampered Chef scoop.).
• Bake for 10-12 minutges or until just brown around edges. Do not overbake.
• Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet.

HEALTHIER PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Sift all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, baking soda, and salt.
• Beat butter, white sugar, brown sugar, and peanut butter with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Add egg allowing to blend into butter mixture. Beat in vanilla extract. Mix in flour mixture and milk until just incorporated.
• Shape into 40 balls and place each into an ungreased mini muffin pan. Bake in preheated oven until cookies are golden brown, about 8 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately press a mini peanut butter cup into the center of each cookie. Cool and carefully remove from pan.

HEALTHIER NO-BAKE CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large saucepan over medium-low heat, add coconut oil, peanut butter, honey, and salt. Slowly stir as the ingredients melt and mix until they are completely combined and bring to a boil.
• Add in the cocoa powder and vanilla; mix until completely combined.
• Remove the saucepan from heat and stir in the oats until all of the oats are coated in chocolate.
• Line a large cookie sheet with wax paper and drop the cookie mixture on by the spoonful (each cookie was about 1 1/2 Tablespoons of mixture).
• Place cookie sheet in the fridge or freezer to allow these cookies to set up completely, then enjoy.