A great way to keep your hand mindless out of the cookie jar is to bake up a single serve cookie — when it’s gone, it’s gone! My Giant Peanut Butter Protein Cookie for One tastes nostalgically amazing, yet is packed with protein so that it fills you up and you CAN be satisfied with just one.
Actually, you may even be happy and your sweet tooth satisfied with just half a cookie — it’s HUGE! I typically eat half and save the other half for later in the day, for double the yum time!
In order to avoid heating up a big oven to bake just one cookie, I made this protein peanut butter cookie in the toaster oven — I use the Instant Oven™ 18L Air Fryer Toaster Oven which is an air fryer and multi-purpose toaster oven. Only a few minutes to put the batter together and about 9 to 10 minutes to bake. In less than 15 minutes you’ll be enjoying a fresh-from-the-oven protein dessert.
Ingredients are natural peanut butter (you could swap for almond butter or, better yet, homemade sunflower seed butter), butter, egg white, coconut flour, baking soda, granulated stevia blend and a plant-based protein powder.
In terms of the best plant-based protein powder, I like the Clean Lean Protein Powder from Nuzest –it has a great nutrient profile and works for vegan, vegetarian and paleo diets. I love it for this protein powder cookie recipe and smoothies and other uses too! You can save `15% with my discount code: FITFORK .
Before baking the cookie, you want to press the dough ball out into an approximate 5″ diameter circle, and then make the fork marks which as SO nut butter cookie important. Because this protein cookie is bigger that an standard old fashioned peanut butter cookie, you can’t really to the criss-cross hatch marks. Instead, I used the tins of the for to go around the edges of the cookie with points of for going up almost to center of cookie, but not quite — this made a “center” that I then used the tips of the fork to make a bunch of little pock marks. It all looked like a flower to me in the end and didn’t puff out the design during baking either!
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A delicious, low-carb peanut butter that will make you feel nostalgic for the treats of your childhood, but offers 20g of protein and only 7g net carb. Bake it in a toaster oven! Big enough to share, but you may not want too!
- 2 tbsp. butter softened
- 2 tbsp natural-style peanut butter
- 2 tbsp granulated stevia blend baking sweetener
- 1 tbsp liquid egg white
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1 scoop Nuzest Lean Clean Protein Powder (chocolate or vanilla) or 2tbsp other protein powder
- 1 tbsp coconut flour
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Mix together butter, peanut butter, stevia and egg white.
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Stir in baking soda, protein powder and coconut flour. Shape into big dough ball. Press out into thick circle with clean hands.
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Use tins of fork to press out remainder of way to about 1/3” thickness and approx. 5” diameter.
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Bake for 9 to 10 minutes. Let cook for 5 minutes on baking sheet
