High-Protein Cookies Recipes
Cookies built around peanut butter, protein powder, and almond flour — dessert that doubles as a snack you'll actually log.
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Dessert3 Ingredient Peanut Butter cookies
this Recipe is from 1948 originally called the Magical Peanut Butter cookies
Lee FarrarIngredients
- 1 cup Peanut Butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
Instructions
- 1cream the peanut butter, sugar and egg together.
- 2role into 1 inch balls and place on a baking sheet.
- 3take a fork and make a criss cross pattern on the cookies
- 4Bake in a 350 degree oven for 10 minutes. cool and enjoy
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Open in Pepper →Why a Good Protein Cookie Beats a Protein Bar
A homemade protein cookie costs about 30 cents to make and contains ingredients you can pronounce. The packaged bar costs $3 and tastes like the wrapper.
Peanut butter does the heavy lifting in most great protein cookies — it's the binder, the fat, and a chunk of the protein all at once. Add a scoop of whey or a handful of almond flour and you're at 8–20g per cookie.
The recipes Pepper's community returns to are often those that fit seamlessly into a healthy lifestyle, offering both satisfaction and convenience. They're the kind of brilliant bakes that transform the three o'clock slump into a moment of pure, guilt-free delight.
Quick Tips
- 1
Underbake by two minutes
Protein cookies set as they cool. Pull them soft and they stay chewy.
- 2
Chill the dough
Twenty minutes in the fridge keeps them from spreading into pancakes.
- 3
Skip the egg if using whey
Whey already binds. An egg pushes the texture into cake territory.
- 4
Roll, don't scoop
Even, round balls bake more evenly and look professional.
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