No-Bake Peanut Butter/Choc Oatmeal cookies

[brianjg 1]

My mom always used to make these no-bake peanut butter/chocolate Cookies at home, and they were one of my favorites. I just switched the recipe up a little bit to make it LB friendly. The recipe is half of the "normal" and makes about 16 cookies, feel free to double it. Use no-sugar added cocoa (Hershey's makes it or look for baking cocoa). Also, I used reduced fat Peanut Butter and instead of butter I used Brumblen Brown (spelling?) yogurt butter spread (1/2 the cals of butter). All in all, these are pretty tasty and not terrible for you.

Ingredient/Cals/Prot:

24 pckts Truvia/0 /0

1/4 c skim milk/22.5/2

4 tbsp cocoa/80/4

1/4 c PB/760/28

1/4 c yougurt butter/180/0

1 1/2 c oats/450/15

Total/1492.5/49

Per cookie (16): 93 calories and 3 grams of Protein

Boil sugar, cocoa, milk, butter and salt for 1 minute. Remove from heat and add peanut butter and oats and vanilla. Use a tablespoon to place dough out on waxed paper. **If you want, you can go ahead and add the PB and the vanilla before you boil it, it doesn't make a lot of difference.

Tip: 24 pckts of Truvia = 1 cup of sugar (For those that don't know, Truvia is a zero-calorie natural sweetner derived from the Stevia plant, I like it better that Splenda.

Tip 2: Instead of cocoa powder, you could try choco Protein Powder to make these a little more guilt-free.

Edited April 19, 2009 by brianjg

[HappyHomeCC 2]

Brian... sounds yummy. I was thinking about adding the Isopure protien powder, maybe the chocolate or the clear one.

where do you buy yougurt butter I don't think I ever heard of it before?

[redthread 0]

what is pb?

[HappyHomeCC 2]

what is pb?

Peanut Butter

[jollygreen1955 0]

That looks yummy...I use Stevia also...but I would add the stevia once the mixture is off the stove..then I would put into a cold glass bowl..stevia must be used under 325 degrees.

I married peanut boy...so this will definitely be an addition in my home

Thanks for the post and sharing

[jollygreen1955 0]

What is yogart butter?

Sometimes I add plain yogart into baked items, in place of butter or oil.

[blueangelkc80 0]

I think you can usually find it in the section with the butter and marg spreads, I think the name of what the OP was referring to is Bumble and Brown