HEALTHY Peanut Butter Cookies. My NEW favorite cookie recipe!

Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies
Today I'm going to show you how to make peanut butter cookies.
These 5 ingredient cookies are so easy to make, they're done in 20 minutes from scratch.
These peanut butter cookies are lower in calories than traditional ones, and they're made without eggs, butter or white sugar.
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This is why you'll love these gluten free peanut butter cookies:
They're so easy to make!
They use cheap and affordable ingredients!
They're lower in calories than traditional peanut butter cookies!
These can be made ahead!
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PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE RECIPE
(makes 12 cookies)
Ingredients:
1/2 cup natural peanut butter (125g)
1/4 cup honey or agave (60ml)
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce (65g)
1 cup ground oats or oat flour (100g)
1.5 tbsp cornstarch or tapioca starch
1 tsp baking powder
NUTRITIONAL INFO (per cookie):
107 calories, fat 2.3g, carb 19.9g, protein 2.4g
Preparation:
In a bowl, add room temperature peanut butter, your sweetener and applesauce, beat with the mixer for 1 minute.
Add half of the oats, cornstarch and baking powder, and gently mix it in, until the dough starts to form.
Add the rest of the oats and mix until everything comes together.
If the dough is too sticky to work with, place the cookie dough in the freezer for 5 minutes.
Scoop the cookie dough (35-40 grams) and roll with your hands, you'll end up with 12 equal balls.
Flatten a bit and transfer to a lined baking tray.
Using a fork, press down each cookie to create authentic criss cross marks.
Bake cookies at 350F (180C) for 10 minutes.
Let it cool on a baking sheet for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.
When completely cool, serve and enjoy with your favorite milk.
Enjoy!

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Hi! Hope you'll find the recipes helpful! Because of the oats, my recipes come with carbs too, but you can use almond flour in most of the recipes if you need to lower the carbs even more.

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Can we skip the corn starch?..

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I used overly ripe bananas in place of applesauce. PB&Banana is one of my favorites and these were awesome. Thanks!

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Made these and came out delicious and perfect to the same measurement s given.I used banana in place of apple sauce

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HI Adela! Thanks for your feedback! You're so right, I've been enjoying these for breakfast last three days.

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Hi Nancy! Thanks so much! Hope you'll enjoy these cookies guys! I love lentils, so there will be more recipes on the channel. Take care!

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It’s ok to use maple syrup

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Hi! Thanks for your feedback! Sure, maple syrup would work great in this recipe.

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Hi Zoey! Great! Thanks for trying it out!

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Wow! This video gives me joy in so many ways. 1. My favorite type of cookie!! 2. I got date syrup yesterday. Never used this sweetener . will try today. 3. Sasha's tips and simple procedures makes you want to go and bake immediately. And his voice is soothing yet so persuasive! Thank you Sasha!!

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Hi there Vidya! Thanks so much for such an amazing feedback! Glad you enjoyed the video! Go for date syrup, it's delicious, even though I don't use it in my filming it's one of my favorite sweeteners.

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Thanks a lot for all of your kind words! Hope you'll enjoy these cookies as much as I did.

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I just made this cookie with my 4 years old son!!! Omg not just healthy, it is actually taste soooo good!!! Thank you for sharing!!

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Great! Let me know how it worked for you.

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How lucky I am to order groceries at this exact moment -- maybe i'll manage to bake them today after our Valentine's dinner, thanks!

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My son and I made these yesterday. They are WOW!!! Really yummy and you cant guess there is apple sauce and honey and no sugar! Thank you so much!

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I made this cookie today and added some grated ginger to the dough. Mehn! it tastes so good. Thank you for sharing this recipe.

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Hi there! Thanks for trying these out! Love the addition of grated ginger!

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Love these are plant-based as I have a family history of Cancer so need to avoid the estrogen and BLV in dairy and the lead and choline in eggs. Thanks for sharing

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Hi there! Great, so glad you enjoyed the cookies! Pozz!

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These are the best cookies I made.😂 I started recently and was changing flour or replacing sugars for health, but it didn't yield great results. Thanks a lot for this healthy recipe I could follow without any changes 🌝, will search and try more cookies from your channel. 🙌

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YUM! Yes!

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Thanks for checking it out!

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I made these yesterday for my peanut butter loving brother-in-law. I added chocolate chips because that's how he rolls, and they were delicious! Soft, chewy, not too sweet.

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These cookies were amazing! The only thing I added was pure vanilla extract as I do in all my baked goods. Thank u so much 4 my new go2 recipe!

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Great! Thanks for trying these out, so glad it worked for you!