Healthy Dessert Challenge: Peanut Butter Cookies

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In the first 2025 issue of Fermenting Solutions I laid out a goal for creating a “Healthy Dessert“.  Ultimately, I plan on actually creating several, but the first one that I am trying to perfect are Peanut Butter Cookies.  This recipe isn’t quite yet perfected, but I consider it good enough to share at this point.  I will update this page as I iterate on this healthy dessert.

Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

So what makes a healthy peanut butter cookie?  For me, it’s all about increasing the protein content and decreasing the carb content.  This isn’t a low calorie dessert.  It is also sweetened, but using a sweetener that I find to be better than others.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup No Sugar Added Peanut Butter (I like to keep it local and use Nutty Novelties’ Classic Crunchy Peanut Butter)
  • 1/2 cup Real Maple Syrup
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1 cup finely ground Almond Flour made from blanched almonds
  • flaked salt to taste

Is Maple Syrup Healthy?

Why Maple Syrup?  There is more and more research coming out showing that real maple syrup has benefits over many other forms of ‘sugar’.  I specifically chose it for the recent studies showing that it helps reduce abdominal fat.

The Process

  • Mix Peanut Butter, Maple Syrup and Vanilla Extract until well blended
  • Mix in Almond flour until it’s a consistent mixture
  • Use a spoon to drop mixture onto parchment paper placed on a baking sheet
  • Lightly smash down cookies with a fork
  • Sprinkle flaked salt on top of cookies
  • Bake at 350° F for 15 minutes

Jason

Jason Donmoyer is Co-Founder of Threddies. He spends his day applying technology to any aspect of Threddies where it can improve operations and help in growing the business. Jason is also responsible for research and development ensuring that Threddies is prepared for future changes and market needs. Jason has been involved in organically growing several organizations from small startups into medium sized businesses and ultimately onto acquisition. Jason is a small business and technology education advocate. He uses his experiences as Threddies co-founder and a long time software engineer to specialize in giving your small but growing business advice and the tools that deliver results! Jason enjoys the outdoors with his family from his home in southeastern Pennsylvania where he enjoys pursuing side gigs and being an all around sound, light, electronics and chemistry tinkerer. You can always see what he is up to now.

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