August 2, 2009: A Healthier Peanut Butter Cookie

peanut butter cookies. But this recipe, from 101 Cookbooks, distinguishes itself every bit a healthier, veganer version - something I'm happy to pack for my mid-afternoon munchies at work. H5N1 fiddling olive stone oil augments the peanut butter for the fattiness, sweetness comes from maple syrup, together with the flour is 100% wholemeal.

If naught else, these cookies direct hold demonstrated how my eating preferences direct hold influenced Michael over the years; when I origin met him he had minimal involvement inward dessert. Yet on Mon nighttime afterward dinner it was he who rummaged through the kitchen seeking something sweet, ultimately lamenting that these cookies tasted "too healthy". I don't know most that, but they're non quite every bit sweetness every bit your typical American-style cookie (which I don't intend is anything to locomote ashamed of) together with the wholemeal flour for sure adds or together with thence weight together with chew to them (which I desire when mild mid-afternoon hunger strikes).

The dough comes together easily yesteryear mitt together with is a fiddling glutinous (though the 5 infinitesimal residual allows it to dry out out a little). It expands quite a flake inward the oven together with thence spoon modest together with locomote out enough of infinite on the tray! These cookies are moist together with only a fiddling crisp on the outside. They're real nearly fantastic. The i affair that doesn't quite sit down correct alongside me is the run of maple syrup to sweeten the peanut butter - they mellow together with intermingle over a few days, but it's non the same every bit the peanut butter-brown saccharide partnership I'm accustomed to together with volition belike revert to. Regardless, it's a excellent recipe together with i that Heidi has taken a lot of time, patience together with flour to perfect - whatever improvements volition locomote incremental together with serve exclusively my real specific, personal peanut butter cookie expectations.

A healthier peanut butter cookie
(a recipe from 101 Cookbooks)

2 cups wholemeal flour
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 loving cup crunchy peanut butter
1 loving cup maple syrup
1/3 loving cup olive oil
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 180°C together with job a baking tray or 2 alongside paper.

In a smallish bowl, stir together the flour, bicarb soda together with salt. In a larger bowl, stir together the remaining ingredients until good combined. Stir the flour mixture into the peanut butter mixture until only combined together with permit the dough to residual for 5 minutes.

Drop spoonfuls of the dough onto the baking trays, leaving enough of infinite for expansion betwixt them. Bake for most 10 minutes, keeping a closed pump on them from the 8 infinitesimal grade onwards. Allow the cookies to cool on the tray for 5 minutes earlier transferring them to a rack.