powdered pb cookies; low fat & sugar with banana
I love peanut butter. And I really really love peanut butter cookies but they DO NOT fit into my Weight Watchers points! So I tweaked the recipe a bit; using mashed bananas instead of butter, peanut powder instead of pb, and sugar substitutes. What goes better with pb than bananas? Ok maybe apples but you can also sub with applesauce! Winning! Just about sugar free, low fat, and still all the taste of regular PB cookies! Recipe yields about 36 cookies. 1 cookie (w/out kiss) is ONLY 1 point with WW! W/ a kiss they're 2 points-still amazing! Who said "dieting" couldn't taste good?! DElish!
prep time
30 Min
cook time
7 Min
method
Bake
yield
36 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup mashed bananas (about 2 medium)
- 1/4 cup truvia brown sugar blend
- 3/4 cup hyvee delecta sugar substitute (or anything similar like truvia, splenda, swerve, erythritol, etc)
- 1 - large egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 3/4 cup powdered peanut butter (i used pbfit)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- - cooking spray
How To Make powdered pb cookies; low fat & sugar with banana
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Step 1In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, peanut powder, soda, and salt. Set aside.
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Step 2In a large bowl beat together the bananas and sugar.
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Step 3Add in egg and vanilla. Beat until well blended. It's ok if there's s few small chunks of bananas that haven't blended in.
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Step 4Gradually STIR in the flour mixture. I split it into thirds to be sure it all got mixed in.
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Step 5Optional: refrigerate for about an hour. I found the dough much easier to work with this way and the cookies were a bit more moist. I did also make some without refrigerating first and they still came out delicious!
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Step 6When ready to bake: preheat oven to 350. Cover cookie sheet with parchment paper.
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Step 7Drop dough by rounded teaspoons onto the cookie sheet
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Step 8Now to make the classic peanut butter cookie checker marks! Lightly spray the top of each cookie with cooking spray. Grab a fork and spray it too. Then you'll press the fork down onto the cookie and then pick up the fork and rotate it to cross the first lines and press down. Voila! Checkers! **This dough is very sticky so you may have to spray the fork a few times.**
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Step 9Bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes. If you are topping with Hershey's kisses, now is a good time to unwrap them (no one will see if one accidentally jumps into your mouth).
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Step 10Once the cookies come out of the oven, immediately move them from the cookie sheet to paper towels. Once you have them all on the paper towels (do that as quickly as possible!) place a Hershey's kiss in the middle and gently push down.
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Step 11This is important! The Hershey's kisses will *almost* melt at first. So don't touch them! They will hold and keep their shape as long as they don't get touched. Once the cookies have completely cooled and the chocolate has solidified you are safe to move the cookies to a container....or your mouth
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Step 12Enjoy!
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Category:
Cookies
Tag:
#For Kids
Tag:
#Healthy
Diet:
Vegetarian
Diet:
Low Fat
Diet:
Dairy Free
Keyword:
#holiday
Keyword:
#Weight-Watchers
Keyword:
#low-sugar
Keyword:
#substitutes
Method:
Bake
Culture:
American
Ingredient:
Flour
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