Sugar Free Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

These Sugar Free Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are made with almond flour and milk chocolate for the perfect dessert. I like to sprinkle them with a little flaky sea salt for an added dose of flavor!

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Nothing beats the combination of chocolate and peanut butter. Growing up Reese’s cups were my favorite candy. Here’s a low carb way to add something similar to a soft cookie!

What Peanut Butter Cups to Use

I like to use the peanut butter cups from ChocZero. The cups are available in milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate. For this recipe I like to use milk chocolate or a combination of milk chocolate and dark chocolate.

The cups have no-added-sugar, no sugar alcohols, and no artificial sweeteners. The cups are sweetened with monkfruit and have 1 net carb per serving.

Cookie Texture and Taste

These cookies are soft, warm, and gooey at the center and crisp along the edges.

How to Make Sugar Free Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream butter and sweetener in a mixing bowl.
3. Add egg, vanilla, and lemon juice. Use the mixer and blend.
4. Add in half of the almond flour and beat.
5. Add in the remaining almond flour, salt, and baking soda. Beat.
6. Fold in the peanut butter cups.
7. Roll the dough into balls or use a cookie scoop.
8. Bake.

What Sweetener to Use

I like to use granular monkfruit sweetener Monkfruit is zero calorie, zero carb, and is made without the use of artificial sweeteners.

Why Lemon Juice and Baking Soda Are Used

When combining lemon juice and baking soda, it creates a chemical reaction that will add a puff to the cookies and make them softer and chewier as they cool. The cookies will not taste like lemon at all.

You cannot substitute baking powder for baking soda. You can omit the lemon juice, but the cookies will not be as soft and chewy.

Baking Tips

Watch these closely while they are in the oven. You want it to appear as though you have under-baked the cookies at first. The cookies should never look fully baked while they are in the oven.

Once the bottom of the cookies begin to turn dark brown and the cookie has taken shape and appears somewhat firm, remove the cookies from the oven. Almond flour bakes fast. If you leave the cookies in too long you will end up with burnt cookies.

Every oven bakes differently. I notice that items toward the back of my oven brown faster than food toward the front. Sometimes I have to rotate the positioning of sheets and pans to take this into account, otherwise, some cookies would turn out done while others were way too soft. Become familiar with how your oven bakes. 

Cooling is Important

The longer the cookies cool, the firmer they will be. Patience is crucial.

How to Store

Store these tightly sealed in the fridge (up to a week) or sealed on the counter for 3 days.

Additional Toppings/Add-in Ideas

• Walnuts
• Pecans
• Macadamia Nuts
• Sea Salt
• Peanut Butter

Freezer Tips

You can freeze the cookies after baking and you can also freeze the dough. Defrost the dough in the refrigerator prior to baking.

More Sugar Free Recipes

Sugar Free Cheesecake
Sugar Free Vanilla Cupcakes
Sugar Free Pound Cake
Sugar Free Cookie Dough
Sugar Free Blueberry Muffins
Healthy Lemon Blueberry Bread

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Sugar Free Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

These Sugar Free Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are made with almond flour and milk chocolate for the perfect dessert. I like to sprinkle them with a little flaky sea salt for an added dose of flavor!

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Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword healthy peanut butter cup cookies, sugar free peanut butter cup cookies

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 12 minutes minutes

cooling 15 minutes minutes

Total Time 42 minutes minutes

Servings 24 cookies

Calories 115kcal

Author Brandi Crawford

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Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
• 3/4 cup zero calorie sweetener
• 1 egg
• 1/8 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups blanched almond flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup peanut butter cups This was one package for me. Use 1 1/2 cups if you want more chunks of the peanut butter cups.

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cream the butter and sweetener in a mixing bowl using a stand or hand mixer on medium speed for about 2 minutes.
• Add egg, vanilla, and lemon juice. Use the mixer and blend on low for 30 seconds. And then blend on medium for a couple of minutes or until light and fluffy, scraping down bowl.
• Add in half of the almond flour and beat.
• Add in the remaining almond flour, salt, and baking soda. Beat.
• Fold in the peanut butter cups.
• Line a sheet pan or cookie sheet with a silicone baking mat. This will prevent the cookies from over-browning.
• Roll the dough into balls or use a cookie scoop. Flatten the top with your hands or with a spoon. (A cookie scoop is a tablespoon and will result in smaller cookies, 24 total. For larger cookies, you can make them into 2 tablespoons, 12 total.)
• Bake for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown. When checking in on the cookies they should look really soft, but golden at the edges when ready. They will harden up as they cool. You don’t want them to look firm in the oven. That will result in burnt cookies. Mine were ready right at 12 minutes.
• Remove the cookies and cool on the silicone baking mat and cookie sheet for 5 minutes before moving them to a cooling rack. This is important. If you move the cookies too soon, they will crumble. Give them a chance to firm up.
• Cool on the cooling rack before serving.

Notes

• The nutrition facts noted are for the smaller cookies using 1 tablespoon of dough. If you make larger cookies using 2 tablespoons the macros are as follows: Cals:230  Fat:20G Net Carbs: 4G Protein: 6G
• The combination of lemon juice and baking soda is added for texture. These cookies taste nothing like lemon.
• You can make these dairy-free by substituting coconut oil for the butter. There will be a difference in taste.
• Watch these closely while they are in the oven. You want it to appear as though you have under-baked the cookies at first. The cookies should never look fully baked while they are in the oven.
• Once the bottom of the cookies begin to turn brown and the cookie has taken shape and appears somewhat firm, remove the cookies from the oven. Almond flour bakes fast. If you leave the cookies in too long you will end up with burnt cookies.
• Every oven bakes differently. I notice that items toward the back of my oven brown faster than food toward the front. Sometimes I have to rotate the positioning of sheets and pans (halfway through) to take this into account, otherwise, some cookies would turn out done while others were way too soft. Become familiar with how your oven bakes.

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Nutrition (displayed with net carbs)

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 115kcal | Carbohydrates: 2g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 10g

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