Peanut Butter Cookies (Reduced Sugar)

Name: Peanut Butter Cookies (Reduced Sugar)
Yield: Makes 24 cookies
Ingredients: ½ cup, unsalted dry-roasted peanuts; ⅔ cup plus ½ cup, Sucanat (6⅔ ounces; 189 grams); 1 cup (5 ounces; 142 grams), all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon, baking powder; ¾ teaspoon, baking soda; ½ teaspoon, salt; ⅔ cup, extra-crunchy peanut butter; ¼ cup, milk; 1 , large egg plus 1 large yolk; 3 tablespoon, unsalted butter, melted and cooled; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract

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We wanted a naturally sweetened peanut butter cookie that would be bursting at the seams with peanut flavor and have an appealingly chewy texture.

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SERVESMakes 24 cookies

TIME40 minutes, plus 30 minutes resting and 20 minutes cooling

Sugar8 grams (down from 12)

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We started by using honey as our sweetener; tasters loved the flavor of honey with the peanut butter, but we found it gave the cookies a tough, cakey texture that we couldn’t overcome. Switching to Sucanat was the best solution: Because a g...

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