Keto Peanut Butter Cookies {3 Ingredients & No Eggs} (2024)

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What are the basic ingredients for peanut butter cookies? ›

Peanut butter

Peanut butter cookie / Main ingredient

Use more granulated sugar than brown sugar.

With all of the peanut butter in this cookie dough, however, too much brown sugar made the cookies so soft that they fell apart.

For example, I added a couple tablespoons of brown sugar to a store-bought peanut butter cookie mix and everyone at the event said it tasted home made. I also rolled them in granulated sugar before baking (I would have used colored sugar, but didn't have any).

“Shortening can cause cookies to spread less due to its higher melting point,” Dawn explains. “Substitute it one-for-one by volume in a butter-based cookie recipe.

So it looks like that there are utilitarian reasons for the cross-hatching—to allow for even cooking—but it might have been passed along for nearly a hundred years for primarily aesthetic reasons, where the cross-hatching is more to identify the cookies as peanut butter ones, rather than to cook them well.

If your peanut butter cookies are getting hard, it's likely because they're overbaked or not stored properly. Make sure to take them out of the oven as soon as they're done baking and let them cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Conventional creamy peanut butter works best for peanut butter cookie recipes because it has a smooth and even texture. My favorite creamy peanut butter brands are Skippy or Jif. Natural peanut butter, made up of just peanuts and salt, is typically very oily and hard to get even.

Peanut butter can definitely be part of a keto diet, but it's best to stick to plain options that are free of extra flavors and sweeteners. Almond butter is a good choice, too, and it's slightly lower in carbs. Additionally, you should be mindful of your portion size if you're trying to lose weight.

If you're serious about keto, make sure you're reading labels for peanut butter with no added sugars. Important note: Peanuts naturally contain sugars so it's incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to find a peanut butter with no sugar—it's the added sugars that you need to watch out for.

How much peanut butter will kick you out of ketosis? ›

You can enjoy two tablespoons of this popular spread at a time, even up to five tablespoons, without going over 50 grams of carbs in a day (the upper limit for the standard keto diet) and getting kicked out of ketosis. Also, this amount should leave room for other foods even after eating peanut butter.

When you skip this step, your cookie dough may spread too much in the oven, resulting in thin and crispy cookies instead of the desired soft and chewy texture. For the best results, chill your peanut butter cookie dough for at least 30 minutes before scooping and baking.

Baking soda and baking powder are powerful leaveners, but even they can't do their job properly in the face of so much fat. If you don't press down peanut butter cookies, they will stay in the exact same shape they were in when you started to bake them.

Dry – “Dry” or “Crumbly” dough is a product of over-mixing or using too much of any ingredient during the mixing process. This can be reversed by adding one to two tablespoons of liquid (water, milk or softened butter) to your mix.

From a simple list of ingredients such as flour, liquids, fat, sugar and sweeteners, eggs, leavening agents, and flavorings, you can make and endless variety of baked goods.

ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDISCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRAIL, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, PEANUT BUTTER (PEANUTS, FULLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [RAPESEED, COTTONSEED AND SOYBEAN OILS]), CANOLA AND/OR SOYBEAN AND/OR PALM OIL WITH TBHQ ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, GRAHAM FLOUR ...

Peanut butter chips (sugar, palm kernel oil, partially defatted peanut flour, non-fat milk powder, salt, soy lecithin), enriched wheat flour (wheat, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), peanut butter (roasted peanuts, dextrose, hydrogenated cottonseed and canola oils, salt), brown sugar, ...

INGREDIENTS: PEANUT BUTTER (PEANUTS, SUGAR, HYDROGENATED PALM OIL, SALT), SUGAR, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, VITAMIN B1 [THIAMIN MONONITRATE], VITAMIN B2 [RIBOFLAVIN], FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OIL (PALM KERNEL, PALM AND SOYBEAN OIL), COCOA, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF INVERT SUGAR, CORNSTARCH, SALT, ...