This has got to be one of the easiest cookie recipes on the planet! It’s really just a standard flour-less peanut butter cookie recipe, I just replaced the sugar with erythritol and it’s only 4 ingredients, one mixing bowl, one spoon and one cookie sheet! Oh, and if you eat them all in one day then you won’t even need to dirty a container to store them in (although this is not recommended unless you are sharing!).
I am very new to the low-carb baking world so I am limited in my knowledge of sugar replacements…so far I have only successfully used Swerve Sweetener, which is erythritol. It is highly recommended by Carolyn at All Day I Dream About Food, which is my absolute favorite low carb blog…she is a genius in the kitchen and every recipe I have tried has been AWESOME! I like especially like Swerve since it subs 1:1 for sugar in just about any recipe…this takes all the guess-work out of substitutions also, it has no weird after-taste and won’t upset your digestive system! I do also love stevia as a sweetener but I have yet to master using it alone in baking. If you are not interested in a low carb version of this cookie it is easy to sub in your favorite unrefined sugar of choice, I think they would be fabulous with coconut palm sugar.
Low Carb Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup organic unsweetened peanut butter, room temperature
1 1⁄8 cup erythritol (I used Swerve)
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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What about using Natural Peanut Butter?
You could really use any peanut butter you like as long as it’s unsweetened.
I LOVE Swerve… very excited to try this recipe!
Wow! I’ll have to try these! We use sucanat for sweetener. So easy!
SO EASY! Sucanat would be great in this recipe!
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It is wonderful with sunflower seed butter!
what is erythritol? I also do not know what Swerve is. Thank you for your help. Cj
erythritol is a natural sugar substitute and Swerve is the brand I like to use. You can sub your favorite granulated sweetener 1:1.
Would coconut sugar work? same amount? 1 1/8cup? sounds like a lot
Yes, coconut sugar works 1:1, the extra 1/8 is for sprinkling on top…
Can I add chocolate chips to it ?
Of course. That makes them extra tasty!
I loved these, had to share them with my husband else I could’ve polished off the lot. So yummy!!
This recipe looks great. I’m confused how these can be 1 net carb though. By my calculations these are 60-70 carbs/15 which should be 4.5 or so per cookie. Can you clarify how you computed?
It will depend on the sweetener you choose to use… I used Swerve and when I enter my calculations into My Fitness Pal recipe builder with the exact brand ingredients I used it came out at 1.3 net carbs.
the peanut butter alone is 32 net carbs which would be 2 per cookie
I’m sure that depends on the peanut butter brand you choose to use…
I calculated using natural peanut butter…. no sugar added.
I did recalculate it and for most brands of natural peanut butter it does come out as 2 net carbs. I have edited the post.
🙂
Mine fell apart pretty easily, more like crumbled. Did I do something wrong?
mine did that too the first time i made them. roll them into tight balls and then flatten them before baking and that helps a lot
Will stevia work in making peanut butter cookies?
Can I use Stevia?
As long as it’s the granulated I would think it would be ok. I’ve not tried it though.
just made the and omg!! one word: YUM!!! thank you for sharing!!
Can I substitute Monk FRUIT? Will it taste ok?
I would think so, I love monk fruit sweetener.
I have Swerve but it’s the powdered kind. Is that ok?
I have only used the granulated Swerve but I think that the powdered would work just fine.
I made these this evening. They are way too sweet. I think I will cut the swerve in half next time.
I make them tonight and thought they were way to sweet as well. I wish I would have cut the erythritol in half also!