Healthy Baking Lover

              Hi! It's been a while since I posted a recipe, and I decided to make these today and share them.  My husband and I agree that these are the best peanut butter muffins we have ever tasted, they are so wonderfully wholesome and fluffy and bursting with authentic peanut butter flavor. And it's no secret that peanuts are one of the loves of my food life, as I never cease to have either peanuts or natural peanut butter in stock. Well, except when I use it all up to bake with, or for my oatmeal escapades. But I love love love peanut butter, the authentic one, not the modified and artificially-sweetened type. I just got the natural kind about a year ago, and until then I had no clue that there was a healthy version and was satisfied with filling myself with whatever food I found in the aisles of the grocery. But now I feel better knowing that I get the full protein and benefits, while enjoying the gooey deliciousness too.     ...

These cookies are soft and melt your mouth bursting with relatively wholesome, healthy flavor! My friend gave me this recipe, and I halved and chopped it to fit my ingredient availability and amount I can do with. This is less-than-half of the original recipe, and it yielded to 16 on the larger side cookies. See photos below. I always find that my quantity of cookies come out to be a far cry less than the estimated count is, and I think this is because I make my cookies way larger than supposed to? Lol. I did not grow up around cookie bakers, my mom just haphazardly baked chocolate cakes weekly and that was the extent of our baked goods. I took over that job in my house when I became a teenager, and then came to learn the ratio the butter/flour make to create either soft or crunchy cookies. Anyway, I used to stress out over not having butter or margarine in the house to make cookies, but I saw in this recipe that oil worked just fine in their place! So, my health diet can continue to ...