Sugar-free Low-carb Peanut Thin Cookies

Start the year right with sinfully sweet diet desserts.  Below is Rozanne Gold's recipe (Amazon link to recipe book) for yummy peanut thins that are sugar-free and low carb.  Her recipe creates about 2 dozen small cookies at 70 calories, 2.6 proteins, or 2.5 carb counts each depending on what you choose to measure fro dieting.  

Recipe below uses chunky peanut butter, but if you prefer to not have the nut peices or you want to make less cookies, try the 1/2 dozen recipe for 3 Ingredient Keto Peanut Butter Cookies.  The Keto recipe measurements are hidden in the video, but the blog post provides tips for ingredient swaps and what goes well with the cookies.  

Not interested in diet or sugar free recipes?  Try Chocolate-Peanut Butter-Oatmeal Cookies for fast and simple treats.  Or if you want something for the kids to get creative with, try Chocolate Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies or Chocolate-Caramel-Pecan Turtle Cookies. 

Peanut Thins

Makes 24 cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup granulated sugar substitute
• 2 Tablespoons cold water
• 1 extra-large egg
• Pinch of salt
• 1 cup natural (no sugar or oil added) super-chunky peanut butter

Steps:

1. In a bowl, using an electric mixer, mix together sugar substitute and water until smooth.
2. Add egg and salt to mixture in bowl, mix well.
3. Pour any excess oil off peanut butter in jar, then stir it in jar to mix contents well.  Measure out the needed peanut butter for recipe and blend into the bowl.  Store any remaining peanut butter per jar directions.
4. Wrap the dough mixture in bowl in plastic wrap.  Important: Refrigerate mixture for 1 hour.
5. Afterwards, preheat oven to 375 degrees.
6. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
7. Scoop 2 teaspoons of dough and roll into an 1-inch ball.  Place balls onto baking and using tines of a fork, flatten the balls into 1 and 1/4 inch diameter cookies.  
8. Bake for 10-11 minutes or until firm to touch.  Cookies will spread slightly while baking.  Caution: Do not let cookies bake too long or they will burn!
9. Remove from the oven and let cookies cool and set on the baking sheet.
10. After remving from baking sheet, store in tightly covered container for up to 2 days