Wellness

No bake Peanut Butter Cookies

I am trying.. to prepare more food that I can bring on the go, as my new workplace is horrendously inaccessible and far, with

not many food choices that suits me. (There is only one canteen.)

Close-up texture of the cookies

Anyway, I found this recipe on Tone It Up. If u are female and trying to “Tone It Up”, u won’t regret popping over to take a look. The site is managed by two gorgeous women who are fitness trainers and decided to start a community where women can encourage each other to become healthy and fit. There are plenty of FREE articles for exercise routines, recipes, motivation, etc.

The recipes they provide are pretty simple, delicious and healthy. I have reached an age whereby I can feel it if I drank too much the previous night, or if I don’t sleep properly for 2 days. I just feel, I can’t go on living the way I lived. I NEED to CHANGE. So, I found their site by chance and it has become my new hobby. Hope things turn out well 🙂

I was just lazy to sift the cocoa powder, so I had to do extra work trying to let it all well mixed using two spoons (refer to next picture). Recommended: Sift the cocoa powder first.

Make sure everything is well mixed.

Mix well, and fast, as the oats “soak” peanut butter dry too fast.

After 20 minutes??

Ingredients

    • 1/3 cup honey
    • 1/2 cup almond milk
    • 3 to 4 tbsp cacao powder
    • 1/2 cup peanut butter (no-sugar added, natural peanut butter)
    • 3 cups oats
    • 1 scoop vanilla or chocolate Perfect Fit protein powder

Method

  1. Heat honey, milk, cacao powder over medium heat till boiling.
  2. Add peanut butter, oats and protein powder. Mix well.
  3. Form into cookies, place on wax paper. Refrigerate until set.

Notes

  • Sift the cocoa powder first, so that it can mix well with the other ingredients.
  • Shaping into energy balls or bars is easier, I find. It’s really up to u. What shape and size, it doesn’t matter.
  • Used skimmed milk instead of almond milk
  • Rolled oats were used.
  • The end product was just sweet enough for my liking, but maybe not sweet enough for general public who are desensitized by too much sugar in the daily food. (Plus, I added extra cocoa powder so it is even less sweet. It did not turn out too crumbly because I only add a little extra.)
  • It is good to know that the peanut butter should not be too dry otherwise it will be harder to mix. (I did not mix properly and took some drier portions of the peanut butter).