{"id":1144,"date":"2011-08-05T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2012-08-22T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T18:30:00","slug":"healthy-peanut-butter-freezer-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Peanut Butter Freezer Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1145\" title=\"Peanut Butter Odies 01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Peanut-Butter-Odies-01-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"Peanut Butter Odies 01\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Peanut-Butter-Odies-01-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Peanut-Butter-Odies-01.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m really getting a hang of this protein thing. I\u2019m even putting it in my healthy snack foods. Take these cookies. I\u2019m kind of crazy about them\u2026this lovely month of August one of my goals is to avoid sugar and, of course, keep eating lots of protein. This lovely snack\/dessert helps me <!--more-->manage both of those resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>My first bite reminded me of a healthy peanut butter version of Chocolate Odies, which are one of my many weaknesses as far as cookies go. These are super quick to whip up and there\u2019s no baking involved which makes me enormously happy. I don\u2019t like baking in summer, not at all. These make around 16 cookies.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"recipeTitle\">Health Peanut Butter Freezer Cookies<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"recipe\">\n<li>\u00bd cup organic peanut butter<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd cup raw honey<\/li>\n<li>\u00bc cup chopped, dried organic figs<\/li>\n<li>\u00bc cup chopped, raw almonds<\/li>\n<li>1 \u00bd &#8211; 2 \u00bd cups old fashioned oats<\/li>\n<li>Pinch of sea salt<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Melt the PB and honey on low heat until it\u2019s melted. Stir in the figs and almonds. Now add the oats until you have a nice thick batter. Place on a wax paper lined cookie pan in tablespoon sized portions. Freeze for about 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a really flexible recipe\u2026you can substitute any nut or dried fruit for the almonds and the figs\u2026or use agave nectar if you\u2019d like this to be a vegan recipe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1146\" title=\"Peanut Butter Odies 03\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Peanut-Butter-Odies-03-510x340.jpg\" alt=\"Peanut Butter Odies 03\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Peanut-Butter-Odies-03-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Peanut-Butter-Odies-03-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Peanut-Butter-Odies-03.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now try to share!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1147\" title=\"Peanut Butter Odies 02\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Peanut-Butter-Odies02-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Peanut Butter Odies 02\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Peanut-Butter-Odies02-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Peanut-Butter-Odies02.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nutritional Info:<\/span><\/strong> Cals: 116, Fat: 5g, Sodium: 68mg, Carbs: 16g, Sugars: 11g, Protein: 3g<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so excited about tomorrow&#8230;we&#8217;re having a big slow-pitch tournament in our hometown! Every year our church forms a couple teams for the big tournament. It&#8217;s always such a fun day with lots of sunburns, competition, and friends&#8230;totally worthy of all the stories we end up with at the end of the day. That&#8217;s my workout for tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Is there a cookie recipe you&#8217;d love to see a healthy makeover for? What is your favourite summer sport?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m really getting a hang of this protein thing. I\u2019m even putting it in my healthy snack foods. Take these cookies. I\u2019m kind of crazy about them\u2026this lovely month of August one of my goals is to avoid sugar and, of course, keep eating lots of protein. This lovely snack\/dessert helps me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,3,225,1066,8,57],"tags":[278,276,1145,273,275,277,1144,25,1146,274,1143,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}