Peanut Butter Cookies With Splenda Sweetener

Yep, I did it. I substituted Splenda Sweetener, in a peanut butter cookie recipe, instead of sugar. It took all my will to do this, because I am a big believer in real sugar (just like I am about real butter), but I realized that not all people can eat the sweet goodness that is sugar, and need a substitution for it. Splenda Sweetener fits that bill.

Using Splenda Sweetener reduce added sugars and calories in your diet, controls calories from sugar to help manage body weight, and controls carbohydrate intake from sugar to help manage conditions like diabetes.

The Splenda Brand has teamed up with celebrity Mom chef, Katie Brown, to offer exciting tips on how to use Splenda in more ways than ever imagined, and to provide new recipes for favorites such as cookies, cakes, breads, and smoothies. Visit the Splenda Tastebook website for more fabulous recipes using Splenda. This is the one I tried. Tasty!

Peanut Butter Cookie Bites

Photo courtesy of Amayu. (I totally forgot to take a pic for this post, argh!)

Ingredients

• ¼ cup margarine, softened
• 1 cup creamy style peanut butter
• ¼ cup egg substitute
• 2 tablespoons honey
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener, Granulated
• 1½ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Beat margarine and peanut butter in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer until creamy, approximately 1 minute.
3. Add egg substitute, honey and vanilla. Beat on high speed for approximately 1½ minutes.
4. Add SPLENDA® Granulated Sweetener and beat on medium speed until well blended, approximately 30 seconds.
5. Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a small mixing bowl. Slowly add flour mixture to peanut butter mixture, beating on low speed until well-blended, about 1½ minutes. Mixture may be crumbly.
6. Roll level tablespoons of dough into balls and drop onto a lightly oiled or parchment lined sheet pan, two inches apart. Flatten each ball with a fork, pressing a crisscross pattern into each cookie. Bake 7-9 minutes or until light brown around the edges. Cool on wire rack.

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I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Splenda and received products necessary to facilitate my candid review. In addition, a donation was made in my name to the Meals on Wheel organization to thank me for taking the time to participate.