Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

Craving for something sweet? Cookies?

If you are craving craving for something sweet and yummy. And you don’t know how to do it without mixing around with your diet and feeling guilty after it… no problem, there is an easy way to do it, some Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies!

Bake your own healthy and tasty cookies. Just switching some ingredients you can have your own fit version, which will suit your diet.

They have an irresistible balance of sweet and salty and they long days in the fridge. So you can take them to work and give you the pleasure of something sweet with your coffee, after lunch or even as a pre-workout snack.

Today we are going to prepare some delightful peanut butter protein cookies with chocolate on top.

Ingredients

Cookie dough

• 200gr 100% Smooth Penaut Butter. *You can use either smooth or crunchy peanut butter.
• 40gr coconut sugar. *Coconut sugar is clean eating friendly.
• 60gr protein powder(vanilla flavour). *Optional.
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
• 2 eggs.

Toppings

• Grated coconut.
• 20gr of dark Belgian chocolate.

Preparation

• Preheat oven to 180°C.
• Combine all ingredients for the Cookie dough in a food processor and process them until finely blended. You will need a rubber spatula to help with the dough until well-blended; use your hands if necessary.
• Shape the dough into balls and place them on the the prepared baking sheets. Flatten to the desired thickness and width gently pressing with your hands or with a fork if you prefer.
• Bake at 180°C for 15 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Remove the cookies from the oven and let cool in their baking sheets.
• Melt the dark Belgian chocolate and dip the cookie into the chocolate until cover half of it or even full cover (up to you).
• Leave them drying on the baking sheet again. But before is fully dry and ready to eat sprinkle the grated coconut over the chocolate side.

Tip: the dough is quite sticky so wet your hands before shaping them into balls. 

They are ready to enjoy!

Remember, they are gluten-free, low fat & low calorie cookies. The prefect treat to calm down any sweet craving and to keep your diet on track.

M.

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