Are Peaunut butter cookies good for you?

Question

if they're not, why?

Answer 1

No, they have a lot of butter and sugar in them. try this healthy recipe:
Healthy Peanut Butter & Honey Cookies

2 cups dry roasted peanuts
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour or oats
1/2 cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon salt (omit if peanuts are already salted)



1. Place peanuts and flour in a food processor and whiz for about 1 minute until nuts and flour are about the same texture.
2. Microwave honey. This is a critical step. The honey is the liquid in the recipe. It needs to pour like water or the mix will seem dry and if too much water is added, the cookies will be tough.
3. Place flour-and-nut mixture in a mixing bowl and add the salt if the peanuts are not already salted. Mix in the honey and vanilla. Stir together and then mix with your hands. (If your food processor is large enough, you can mix the honey and vanilla in the processor. Turn on briefly to mix.).
4. Note: The dough should hold together without being dry and crumbly. If needed, add a tablespoon of water, but be careful not to get it so wet that it sticks to your hands. It should be like piecrust. If it is too dry, the cookies will crumble and not hold together, but if too wet, they will be hard to handle and the baked cookies will be hard. A little extra flour can be worked in if the dough is too sticky!
5. Pinch off pieces of dough and roll into balls the size of walnuts. Place on a cookie sheet and press flat with hands. Then press flatter with fork, dipping the fork in water as needed to keep it from sticking to the dough (or use a plastic fork - it won't stick even if dry, but will break unless you press on the tines).
6. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 10 minutes. Watch them carefully. They are done when just beginning to brown on the edges. I can think of nothing that burns so easily as peanut butter cookies, so take them out before it looks like they're done!
7. Let them cool on the cookie sheet before removing.


OR this one too!
These cookies have some staying power from the oatmeal and the natural-style peanut butter. In addition, they use whole wheat flour and less sugar and fat than usual.

Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies

Makes 24 bakery-sized cookies

1/4 cup less-fat margarine (with 8 grams of fat per tablespoon)
1/4 cup lite pancake syrup
1/2 cup natural-style smooth peanut butter
1/4 cup SPLENDA sweetener
1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 large egg (higher omega-3 egg if available)
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup unbleached white flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup quick-cooking oats

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add less-fat margarine, pancake syrup, peanut butter, SPLENDA sweetener, brown sugar and vanilla to large mixing bowl and beat until creamy (scraping sides of bowl and beaters at least two times). Add egg and beat well.
2. In an 8-cup measure, combine the flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt with whisk. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the peanut butter mixture in mixing bowl while beating on lowest speed just until blended. Add oats and beat on lowest speed just until blended.
3. Using a cookie scoop, drop about 1/8 cup of cookie dough for each cookie onto a cookie sheet lined in parchment paper (or coat a nonstick cookie sheet with cooking spray). Use a fork dipped in lowfat milk to make the peanut butter marks on top of the dough if desired. Bake for about 10 minutes or until cookies are just turning brown.

Per cookie: 109 calories, 3 g protein, 14 g carbohydrate,
4.5 gram fat (.8 gram saturated fat, .6 g monounsaturated fat, 1 g polyunsaturated fat), 9 mg cholesterol,
1.5 gram fiber, 99 mg sodium. Calories from fat: 37 percent.
Omega-3 fatty acids = .2 g, Omega-6 fatty acids = .8

Answer 2

I hate sugar or butter. Some oatmeal cookies are ok even with raisins but I agree most I do not like. Well my granny used to make chocolate ones without raisins they were good. I like some peanut butter cookies. believe it or not I dislike most chocolate chip cookies unless I dip them in milk. Now there are probably many others I hate but I cannot think of any right now.

Answer 3

Nope! They have too much sugar and calories to be good for you. The amount of peanut butter in each cookie is trivial. Only enough to give it that yummy peanutty taste, but not enough to give you the benefits of the protein. Enjoy them anyway. It's the holiday season!

Answer 4

If it has the word cookie after it it ain't good for you doll. Just like Oatmeal cookies, not good for you. We all might like to delude ourselves because of the healthy part, but when you add all the butter sugar and other stuff., nope.

Answer 5

Depends on how they are made. The peanut butter can be good for you, but shortening, butter, sugar, etc, etc, is not good for you. Sometimes, they are made with whole wheat flour and raisins, and that's a smidge better for you.

Answer 6

peanut butter, regular butter, sugar, white flour = fat & calories. Sure tastes good though!

Answer 7

No but they sure do taste good , especially the Girl scout sandwich ones

Answer 8

Not if you are one of the poor souls allergic to nuts

But im sure the are full of fat and sugars

eat up and enjoy

Answer 9

they are not good for you if you eat alot but theyare not bad for you if you eat a little it just depends on the amount you eat.

Answer 10

i say yes. cause i love peanut butter!!