Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies to satisfy those peanut butter cravings. These are easy peanut butter cookies are made with almond flour for a quick healthy option.
(Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Low-Sugar)
It was Sunday morning. R was making his lunches for the week and next thing I see he’s pulling out ingredients for these healthy peanut butter cookies.
Turns out he was having a major craving for cookies. He couldn’t decide if he want peanut butter cookies or chocolate chip cookies.
I suggested, “Why don’t you just add chocolate chips to the remaining batter of the cookies?”.
According to him, I’m a genius. Yes, baby I know. I am the one who came up with these healthy peanut butter cookies to begin with. Why not make them into chocolate peanut butter cookies also.
Baking Tips for these Peanut Butter Cookies
- Add a handful of chocolate chips to these healthy peanut butter cookies for that delish chocolate and peanut butter combo.
- You want to let these cookies FULLY cool before removing from the pan. If you remove too soon they will crumble on you.
So in reality, you can thank my husband for these. They were developed ALL because R loves cookies and if he’s going to devour cookies he’s by gosh darn going to be eating healthy cookies. ALLLLL the cookies.
Meanwhile, I’ll sit over here eating my homemade peppermints. Yes, I will choose peppermints over peanut butter cookies. R says I’m crazy. What would you choose?
How do you make healthy peanut butter cookies? With simple ingredients.
- Peanut Butter
- Egg
- Almond Flour
- Honey
- Baking Soda and Salt
Are healthy cookies on your horizon? You betcha.
R made that mistake the first time he made these. Don’t be my husband and actually read the instructions.
And if you’d like more healthy cookies check out our round-up of our favorite healthy cookies over the years.
check out just how easy this is to make!
Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
Dessert
Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Low-Sugar
American
Yield: 12
Prep Time:15 min
Cook Time:10 min
Total Time:25 min
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (natural peanut butter will not work well)
- 1/3 cup almond flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 cup honey (or cane sugar will work if not paleo)
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 egg
Directions:
- 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- 2. Mix all ingredients together in a medium sized mixing bowl.
- 3. Form cookie balls with hands, about 1 inch in size each. Place onto a cookie sheet prepared with parchment paper.
- 4. Flatten each cookie to about 2 inches in diameter and 1/4 inch thick.
- 5. With a fork, indent the tops of cookies with crisscross pattern.
- 6. Bake 7-9 minutes.
- 7. Let cookies fully cool on cookie sheet before removing.
Author: Linnie
Recipe Video:
Nutrition Information:
Calories: 94
Other nutrition information: Total Fat 7g Saturated Fat: 1g, Unsaturated fat: 0g, Trans Fat: 0g, Carbohydrates: 6g, Sugar: 4g, Sodium 51mg, Fiber 1g, Protein 4g
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(45 votes, average: 3.76 out of 5)
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This looks so yummy. We are making it right now. I have a question: The consistency is so liquid and sticky that we can’t really roll the dough into balls and it’s even hard to flatten them. Does it need more almond flour?
Keep stirring it – you need to make sure the almond flour is evenly stirred and it will end up turning into a dough-like mixture. It should not be liquid so if it is there is either too much oil in your peanut butter and you need more almond flour to combat that oil. Hope this helps!
The recipe calls for one egg, but the video shows one egg white…I think that is why the dough is not thick.
I accidentally gave it two stars and couldn’t undo it so I refreshed the page and gave it five stars. I’m so sorry! I’m really excited to make these !
I just made them. I noticed in the video you added salt and only egg white but the recipe does not mention salt, nor does it mention to separate the egg.