Mine is not diet friendly either, but I love to make them and everyone raves about them
3/4 C peanut butter 1/2 shortening 1 1/4 c brown sugar 3 T milk 1T vanilla 1 egg 1 3/4 c flour 3/4 t baking soda 3/4 t salt
preheat oven at 375. combine the peanut butter, shortening, brown sugar, milk and vanilla; beat at med speed until well blended. add the egg and beat just until blended. Combine the flour, salt and soda; add to the cream mixture and beat at low speed till well blended. drop by teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. with tine of fork, flatten cookies into a crisscross pattern. I dip my fork in sugar to make it easier. Bake 7-8 min
ELAINEHN 3/30/07 11:09 A
I don't have a 'diet' recipe ... but the easy one that I have is one cup peanut butter, one egg and one cup sugar. Mix it well ... refrigerate and then spoon onto cookie sheets and bake till golden brown.
I know you could substitue Egg Beaters for the egg and I would guess that Splenda for Baking would work in place of the sugar, but I've never tried it.
A good peanutbuttery chocolate cookie recipe is to melt 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips and stir in 1 TBSP of peanutbutter ... then mix in as much fiber one cereal as the chocolate/peanutbutter will coat. Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper and chill till firm. I was suprised at how much you taste the peanutbutter and how far you can make it go in this recipe.
My mom made soft spice cookies by mixing a can of pumpkin (just PLAIN pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling) and a spice cake mix. I'm guessing it might also work with a can of pumpkin and a box of peanutbutter cake mix ... but I don't know if they'd taste more peanutbuttery or more pumpkiny.
