BellaOnline Forums Food and Wine Low Carb Low Carb Peanut Butter Cookies

I just sampled these cookies at my friend's tonight and thought I would post this easy recipe.

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup Splenda
1 egg

Mix all ingredients. Bake and prepare as usual peanut butter cookies.
The only difference, is that they will be very crumbly. They are wonderful.

Wow those are INCREDIBLY easy!! I'll have to give that a try! Thanks for posting <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Normally our quick-n-easy dessert is low carb ice cream, but that requires owning an ice cream maker. Which I think everybody should own but of course not everybody does <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Showing my ignorance.
What is Splenda?

Splenda (also called Sucralose) has got to be one of THE most wonderful creations of the 20th century <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I have information on it here -

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art10621.asp

in essence it is a modified form of sugar that tastes just like sugar (no aftertaste at ALL) and can be baked with but has pretty much no calories. You can stir it into your coffee, bake cookies with it, make pudding with it, anything you would do with sugar in the same amounts. It has a great texture so it holds up well.

If you look at diet sodas and products, especially candies and cookies, many if not most of them now use Splenda. The taste is truly perfect. I feed Splenda-sweetened chocolates and candies to my various testers and they literally cannot taste the difference between them and the sugared version. There's really no reason any more on these products to eat a sugared version any more. Not that you should eat a lot of candy or chocolate no matter what it's made of <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> But if you want to satisfy that sweet tooth, you can do it with the Splenda version, it will taste *incredibly* delicious and gourmet, and it's not full of sugar. Which dentists love, too.

Also in a safety sense, this is not a rat poison like saccharine is. The more I read about saccharine (Sweet n Low) the scarier it is. Splenda has been tested for years and years and there aren't any problems with it. Which is a good thing <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Now I know why I didn't know about Splenda! I regularly disregard any artificial sweetners since when they first came out (showing my age) they gave me a headache. I suppose I would have been the one to develop brain tumors if I had continued to use them!
I try to avoid any of the new fake foods, being a natural food addict from way back.

I read your article about Splenda and I'm going to try it!

Someone in the weight loss forum was saying that when she drank diet sodas with aspartame in them, she had such bad reactions that her doctor thought she was developing MS!! So definitely some of those older sweeteners are nasty. And if you're weaned off of sugar / sweeteners entirely that of course is the best solution of all! Our bodies should definitely not be consuming as much sweet stuff as we do.

But if you want an occasional sweet item, Splenda is definitely the way to go. I'm weaning my boyfriend off of sodas, and the first step was to get him 100% from sugar sodas to Splenda sodas. He's done that step very easily and loves drinking the Splenda sodas just as much as he liked the sugar version. So there'd never be a reason, even taste wise, for him to go back to the sugar kind. Now I just have to wean him slowly off of soda. But at least right now the soda is decaffeinated and sugar-free, so all it is is a flavor sensation for him. It's not like it's "hurting" him right now, while we focus on him losing weight.

When I started carying bottled water with me all the time and making an effort to drink more water, I found that I couldn't drink sodas (we call it pop in Indiana! <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> ) any more. No more addiction!

That was definitely true for me too. I used to drink diet coke as my soda of choice and at some point I just decided that drinking corrosive chemicals, cola that harms bones and strange sweeteners as a 'casual daily drink' wasn't a good idea. So instead I kept water by my side and you really do get quite fond of it very quickly! Now if someone put a glass of water or a glass of diet coke in front of me I would just not want that coke at all. I've lost all desire for it. I do drink them occasionally when we go out for fast food and I'm reminded of how ... "unfresh" they taste. When I drink water it's clear and fresh and refreshing. But when I drink sodas they are ... I don't know, heavy and sludgy tasting. And bubbly. The last thing I need is a bubbly tummy <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

OK, so i tried the peanut butter cookies.. they turned into a plate of crumbs.. (i had to eat them w/ a spoon)... but definately good.

LOL I got a chocolate cupcake 4-pack from the store (low carb) and they were super crumby. I ended up eating them in a bowl with ice cream (also low carb) and it was REALLY delicious that way. But when I was trying to eat them like normal cupcakes I was covering everything around me with brown crumbs <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />