Healthy Peanut Butter Power Cookies

Good morning from back in DC! I know most of us are ready to focus on healthy eating and workouts after a lot of holiday travel (did you see my Tips for a Healthy New Year post?), so I thought today I would share a healthy recipe! These peanut butter power cookies are delicious but so packed with nutrition that they are healthy enough to eat as your breakfast or morning/afternoon snack. In fact, I encourage it!

Sweetened only with maple syrup, gluten free (with GF certified oats) and vegan, these cookies are peanut buttery and sweet without being too sweet, if you know what I mean. And the texture is cookie-like, not cakey like a lot of healthy cookies, despite the addition of healthy fat from ground flaxseed.

They are easy to throw together, too. Simply mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl, and the wet in another…

Then combine!

Then simply place on a cookie sheet and bake! 12 to 15 minutes later and you will have some serious tastiness.

Here’s the full recipe.

Healthy Peanut Butter Power Cookies

by fANNEtastic food

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 12-15 minutes

Keywords: bake snack gluten-free vegan cookie

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Ingredients (12 cookies)

• Ingredients:
• 1 cup old fashioned oats (GF certified if needed)
• 1/2 cup almond flour
• 1/2 cup ground flaxseed
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/3 cup raisins (or other dried fruit)
• 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
• 1/4 cup natural peanut butter (or other nut butter)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a large bowl, combine all dry ingredients (oats through raisins).
• In another bowl, whisk together wet ingredients (maple syrup through vanilla).
• Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir to combine.
• Drop the dough into 12 even mounds on a parchment paper/silicon mat-lined or greased baking sheet.
• Bake 12-15 minutes, until the cookies are just set in the center.

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Love this recipe? Here are a few similar healthy cookie recipes here on the blog that are perfect for breakfast/snacks, too:

• Chocolate Chip Cookies (gluten free)
• Oatmeal Banana Coconut Cookies
• Oatmeal Banana Pumpkin Cookies (vegan)

And now – for the inspiration behind this recipe! My friend, fellow dietitian, and mentor Regan Jones turns 40 today, and a big group of us are hosting a virtual birthday party for her on our blogs!

Regan is the woman behind Healthy Aperture and the Recipe ReDux and has served as a big source of inspiration to me and many other dietitians working in social media/communications. I had the pleasure of getting to know her better this summer on a number of blog trips, including Blog Brulee, which Regan co-hosted with 3 other dietitians. Happy birthday, Regan! I hope it’s a wonderful day!

See below for links to all of the other awesome virtual birthday party recipe posts from my fellow dietitians and friends! All the recipes are either gluten free desserts (or dessert-ish, like mine) or cocktails.

Healthy Peanut Butter Power Cookies originally appeared on fANNEtastic food | Washington D.C. area Registered Dietitian | Recipes + Healthy Living + Fitness on January 5, 2015.

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