Recipe
Peanut Butter Cookie with Flax
Who doesn't love a peanut butter cookie? But you've never had a cookie like the one created by Courtney Werp, Founder of Ballard Extracts. These delicious cookies have the added benefit of ground flax seed. Flax seed is a good source of dietary fiber, protein, Omega-3, Vitamin B-1, Manganese, Magnesium, Phosphorous and Selenium, along with other trace vitamins and minerals. So, go ahead! Whip up a batch of these cookies and consider them to be a healthy indulgence!
Ingredients
- ¾ cup peanut butter
- ½ cup butter (at room temperature)
- 1 ¼ cup brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons of milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 1 ½ cup flour
- ½ cup ground flax seed
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
Directions
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Combine peanut butter, butter, brown sugar, milk and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at until well blended
- Add egg to mixture. Beat just until blended
- Mix flour, ground flax seed, baking soda and salt in separate bowl
- Add dry ingredient mixture to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended
- Roll balls of dough into sugar. Crisscross with a fork
- Bake 8-9 minutes. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove cookies to cooling racks to cool completely
Recipe and Photo reprinted with the permission of Courtney Werp