My daughter showed me Granny Guns on Instagram and I wanted protein cookies. Her recipe is a bit too focused for me. Restate: I wanted cookies with protein in them. I searched in some of the recipes on protein powder brand websites, then as usual went away and did something different.
This is the easy-to-remember recipe I use all the time, with just a few things changed.
Some of the need for sugar in cookies is to overcome the taste of the wheat. It’s so much nicer if you start off nice, with yummy, mild, spelt flour or oat flour.
Ingredients:
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter
1/2 c honey
1 c peanut butter
1 c protein powder
1.5 c flour (spelt or oat)
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
big handful chocolate chips
It comes out the consistency of play dough and really can’t be mixed with a spoon. Put on a glove and knead it.
About that time, I gave up sugar again. How many times does this have to happen? Will it never end? Probably not, and there’s some peace in acceptance. I give up sugar, and some time later I’ll have to give up sugar again, and suffer the cravings for a while, and get all the way past it again, and feel so good, again, and later, I’ll have to quit sugar again.
I don’t do moderation. That’s not how I roll. Quitting sugar means quitting sweetener, or else it’s a slippery slope straight back.
Last time I quit sugar, I made some chocolate chip cookies for my dear husband and watched him eat them, and then realized how stupid I was being.
I only want to give up sugar! I don’t want to give up chocolate chip cookies.
Unsweetened desserts. Pie, cake and cookies without sugar. Is that even a thing? Don’t see it on internet. They all have alternative sweeteners. How about just forget the sweetener. Spelt flour tastes nice, butter tastes nice, cooked eggs are all right, and mixed together and baked, they still taste nice. With some warm tea and a crossword puzzle, I want nothing more.
Those protein cookies without the sweetener goes like this –
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter
1 c peanut butter
1 c protein powder
1 c flour
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda.
big handful chocolate chips (those 90% cocoa ones are about as unsweetened as you can get)
And look like the same basic deal. They are unavoidably sweetened a little bit by the stevia in the protein powder, and you’d have to do backflips to find affordable unsweetened protein powder. Stevia doesn’t hurt.
When you detox from sugar, unsweet things start to taste better. These taste satisfying. They taste like, “This is me, eating thick cookies in the morning.”
Next try was unsweetened pie. Here’s two pies. Husband’s one is canned peaches, flour, sugar, cinnamon, with flour, sugar and butter crumbs.
Mine is canned peaches and pineapple (because that was all the canned peaches), flour and cinnamon, and flour and butter crumbs on top.
Whipped some cream. Fresh cream with a little vanilla is DELICIOUS and satisfying.
Howzat for food photography XD
And then some leftover whipped unsweetened cream with crumbled unsweetened cookies and a can of mandarin oranges. They were in a sugar syrup. Draining them is the best I can do right now.
There’s my “as little sugar as possible” lifestyle!