Peanut Butter Date Cookies
These Peanut Butter Date Sweetened Cookies are easy to make and you won't even know there isn't any sugar in them!
Servings 12 regular cookies
Calories 260kcal
Ingredients
- 1½ cup plain flour
- ½ cup almond meal
- ½ teaspoon bicarb soda
- pinch of sea salt
- ¾ cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup natural peanut butter
- 1 cup medjool dates (pitted, room temperature)
- 2 tabelspoons milk
Instructions
- Preheat fan oven to 180℃, 350℉.
- To a medium bowl, add 1½ cup plain flour, ½ cup almond meal, ½ teaspoon bicarb soda, and pinch of sea salt. Mix together thoroughly with a spoon until combined.
- In another mixing (large) bowl, add ¾ cup unsalted butter (room temperature). Use an electric hand beater on high to beat until fluffy.
- Add ¼ cup natural peanut butter and1 large egg to the butter and mix again with the electric beaters until all combined.
- Finely chop 1 cup medjool dates (pitted, room temperature) and add into the dry ingredients, stirring through. Then add the dry ingredients into the butter mixture, stirring until combined.
- Add 2 tabelspoons milk to the cookie mixture and use your hands to knead it into a cookie dough. If it’s not moist enough, add 1 more tablespoon of milk to form a firmer cookie dough.
- Break the cookie dough in half, then in half again to make 4 pieces. Divide each of those into 3 smaller pieces, giving you 12 in total. Roll each piece into a ball and place 6 on one baking tray and 6 on another, making sure both trays are lined with baking or parchment paper.
- Use back of fork to push down and flatten cookie balls to ½cm thick in the shape of a round disk. Use your fingers to push together the dough around the edges of the disk if it starts to split. Use fork in a crossways/crosshatch pattern to achieve flat level discs.
- Bake cookies for 13 minutes in oven at 180℃, 350℉, then remove, let sit for 5 mins. Use a spatula to transfer each cookie to a wire rack to cool to room temperature.
- Store cookies in an air tight container at room temperature for 3 days.
Nutrition
Calories: 260kcal | Carbohydrates: 24g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 6g
