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Ask anyone in my family what cookie they have to have during the holidays, and every one of them will answer peanut butter kiss cookies. Some of you may know them as peanut blossoms, but we’ve always called them peanut butter kiss cookies in our family. Forget the sugar cookies and gingerbread, we want some peanut butter and chocolate at our holiday parties! Okay, to be honest, I want peanut butter and chocolate year-round.
One of the really tough parts of the holiday season is not eating too many calories. For me, those extra calories are usually coming from all of the sweets I eat. But, I’m not alone. I recently found out that the average American eats more than 22 teaspoons of added sugar every day. Okay. Think about that. Picture 22 teaspoons filled with sugar lined up on your counter. That is crazy! That is more than triple the recommended amount of sugar for women and more than double the recommended amount for men!
I love me some sweets, so I need to start thinking of ways to reduce my sugar intake; therefore reducing my calorie intake. This is one time I want to be one of those below average Americans. Yea for underachievers!
Sweet Swaps™ Ideas
We’ve all heard of SPLENDA® before but have you heard of their Sweet Swaps™ Ideas? They are all about making smarter decisions for a healthy lifestyle. Like swapping full sugar for SPLENDA® Sweetener Products in order to save calories. For example, if you swap one cup of sugar for one cup of SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener, Granulated, you can save over 600 calories.
Once I heard about this, I knew I wanted to try some of their products with my holiday baking. What did I think of first? Peanut butter kiss cookies of course! I headed over to Walmart to see what SPLENDA® Sweetener Products they carried. They had them all! I picked up some SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend and the rest of my cookie ingredients.
Lower Calorie Peanut Butter Kiss Cookie Recipe
Add in the chocolate kisses, and you have all of the peanut butter kiss cookie ingredients!
Blend together the butter, SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend, sugar, peanut butter, egg and vanilla extract.
Sift the flour and baking soda in another bowl.
Mix all of the ingredients to form a dough.
Roll the dough into 1-inch balls and coat with sugar. Put on a cookie sheet and bake for 7 minutes at 375°.
Add a chocolate kiss to each cookie and press down a little bit. Put back in the oven for 3 minutes. Let cool and enjoy!
Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies (Peanut Blossom Cookies)
These classic cookies are made lower calorie using SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup margarine or butter
- 1/4 cup SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ~ 60 chocolate kisses
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- In a bowl mix together first 6 ingredients.
- Sift the flour and baking soda in a separate bowl.
- Add peanut butter mixture to the flour & baking soda.
- Mix everything until it forms a dough.
- Put some extra granulated sugar in a small bowl.
- Roll 1 inch balls of dough and coat with sugar in the small bowl.
- Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and repeat.
- Bake for 7 minutes and remove from oven.
- Add an unwrapped chocolate kiss to each cookie pressing down lightly.
- Put back in the oven for 3 minutes.
- Let cool on cookie sheet for a minute or two and then remove with spatula to finish cooling on the counter or on a cooling rack.
- Enjoy!
Notes
You have many options to make these even lower calorie:
- Swap out granulated sugar for SPLENDA® Granulated No Calorie Sweetener or SPLENDA® Sugar Blend
- Opt to not roll dough in sugar before baking.
- Swap out butter for a lower calorie butter substitute.
- Swap out the egg for egg substitute.
If you do one of these swaps but keep regular brown sugar, you will need 1/2 cup.
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Nutrition Information
Yield 60 Serving Size 1 cookieAmount Per Serving Calories 75Total Fat 4gSaturated Fat 1gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 2gCholesterol 5mgSodium 38mgCarbohydrates 9gFiber 0gSugar 5gProtein 1g
Nutrition information provided by Nutritionix and may not be complete. Please feel free to double check using your favorite nutrition calculator.
What is your favorite holiday cookie? Can you make it with less calories?
I honestly have never cooked or baked with Splenda, but I will keep this recipe in mind in case I need something with less sugar sometime.
I never thought to make them with Splenda, but I will now! Those look as delicious as they could possibly be!
I am a nut for baking with Splenda and… *shhh Truvia. Being diabetic I have to cut the sugar where I can. These look so dang good and can’t wait to try it! Thanks for posting this!
These look so good. I am going to have try them. I like Stevia in the Raw too though. Thanks for the tips on how to lower our daily sugar intake.
That’s really lovely! I like the low calorie part, lol. I always see sugar cookie versions of these, peanut butter is definitely more like it.
You can bake for me any time. These look perfect. I bet they taste incredible. #client