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Peanut
Butter Diabetic Cookies - My Favorite Recipe
If you love peanut butter as much as I do, then this is a treat.
Diabetic cookies can be a marvelous way to
raise the spirits when a person is feeling miserable about
the restrictions of living with this serious but manageable
condition. Having diabetes is often not much fun and we cannot
cheer ourselves up with normal chocolate and sweet treats the
way we may have done in the past when we needed a boost.
Most diabetic cookie recipes involve using artificial sweeteners.
Just about all of the artificial sweeteners available on the
market today have raised some concerns about health risks.
Often this is to do with what happens to laboratory rats who
are fed on very high quantities of the sweeteners. Whether
you want to let this worry you is up to you, but it may be
a good idea not to indulge in huge amounts of artificial sweeteners.
Instead, let your taste buds return to enjoying the natural
sweetness of whole foods, as they did before sugar corrupted
us to expect a very high level of sweetness.
When choosing a sweetener, check that it is suitable for baking.
Aspartame loses its sweetness at high temperatures so avoid
any products that are based on aspartame. You should stay away from aspartame anyway. It's a highly controversial sweetener. Do a quick search on Google and you'll see why. Others are fine.
The packet will tell you. Depending on your diet plan you may
be able to use a blend which may be 50% sugar.
I love this recipe for diabetic peanut butter cookies with
its mix of sweet and savory tastes. You can try it with less
or more sweetener according to taste.
Peanut Butter Diabetic Cookies
- 0.5
cup sugar free peanut butter (experiment with creamy or
crunchy styles)
- 1.25
cup whole wheat flour
- 1
tsp baking powder
- 0.5
cup margarine
- 1
egg
- 1
tsp vanilla extract
- equivalent
of 0.5 cup sugar
Margarine should be soft (not straight from the refrigerator).
Mix all ingredients except for the flour into the margarine,
then slowly add the flour. The dough should be crumbly but
you can add a splash of water if it is too dry.
Make 1 inch balls of dough and place them on a baking sheet.
Press down with the base of a glass to flatten them to about
a half inch thickness. Bake in a preheated oven at 375 degrees
F (190 degrees C) for 10-15 minutes.
If you have diabetic kids, why not teach them to make these
diabetic cookies for themselves? That way they will have a
treat that they can prepare themselves and share with others
in the family if they choose to. It is going to be important
that your diabetic child understands how to prepare the right
kind of food to manage his or her condition, so starting to
learn to cook is important for both boys and girls. Just be
sure that all food consumed, including diabetic cookies, is
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: 2009
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