Sometimes I sit and rack my brain for recipe ideas.  Sometimes I simply turn to my H and ask him what I should cook up.  His response is usually some kind of dessert that’s not too “healthy” or “weird” mostly because he wants to reap the benefits i.e. eat it all 😀

This week he suggested I make peanut butter cookies.  But not just any old peanut butter cookie, chocolate peanut butter cookies!  Normally they are packed with sugar so for this recipe I used xylitol.  I wanted to keep these low in sugar and find that xylitol is the best natural low-sugar substitute for baking, but if you’re not a fan, feel free to sub with stevia, honey, coconut sugar or your sweetener of choice.

With only 5 ingredients, these cookies are so quick and easy to make you’ll wonder why you don’t make these every week –  maybe you will 😉  I know my H approved and will most likely be asking for them all the time now!

I created a monster.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

2016-09-23 14:03:16

Serves 24

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Ingredients

1. 1 cup all natural peanut butter
2. 1/2 cup xylitol or sweetener of choice
3. 1 egg
4. 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips (I use Enjoy Life)
5. 1/2 Tbsp coconut oil

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325F. Combine peanut butter, xylitol and egg in a bowl, mix well.
2. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Roll dough into 24 balls. Place on baking sheets.
3. Press down with a fork.
4. Bake for 15-18 minutes.
5. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
6. Melt chocolate chips and coconut oil. Drizzle over cookies.
7. Keep refrigerated.

Nutritional Info per cookie

1. 97 Calories, 3g Carbs, 1g Fibre, 2g Net Carbs, 7g Fat, 3g Protein, 1g Sugar
2. Nutritional info is gathered from MyFitnessPal and may vary depending on your ingredients. Therefore, it is not always 100% accurate and meant to be used as a reference only.

By The Happy Health Freak

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