Recipe: All Natural, No Refined Sugar Peanut Butter Cookies Made with Honey (2024)

FAQs

What does honey do in baking cookies? ›

What Does Honey do in Baking? Honey is a 'humectant'. This means that it retains moisture- great news for baking as it helps keep biscuits and cake moist. Honey compared with traditional refined sugar, also means you gain a richer colour and fuller flavour.

Yes, you can use natural peanut butter in this dough!

Here are my notes: Processed: The cookies truly taste perfect with great texture. They spread less and aren't as crumbly. Natural-Style: The cookies spread a bit more and are somewhat sandier/crumblier.

Main ingredients

Unrefined golden caster sugar: Just a couple of tablespoons go into this batch of cookies. I found adding golden caster sugar helped the cookies to spread a little bit less and produce crisper edges. However, you could use all coconut sugar if you would prefer; the cookies will just be a little softer.

Honey is sweeter than sugar, so you need to use less. Decrease other liquids in the recipe by 1/4 cup, because there's water in the honey too. Lower the baking temperature by 25°F. Honey makes baked goods brown faster.

"Honey's advantages over sugar include a slightly lower glycemic index (i.e. it doesn't affect your blood-sugar levels as much)," Dr. Dixon says. 10 "It also contains more vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, such as calcium, potassium, vitamin C, zinc, phenolic acids, and flavonoids."

Eating peanut butter and honey together can be a healthy snack option. Both ingredients are full of nutrients, such as protein and healthy fats from the peanut butter and antioxidants from the honey. However, if you are watching your calorie intake, it is important to keep portion sizes in check.

This will give a big energy boost for someone who needs to go and do some hard physical work. The peanut butter and honey go to together very well.

Scoop out your peanut butter, for every ½ cup add about 2 teaspoons of honey. Mix it up and store in an airtight container. If you like it sweeter add more honey. Enjoy!

Many baked goods like peanut butter cookies actually call for conventional peanut butter, since the looser consistency of natural peanut butter may cause them to spread in the oven.

Why are my peanut butter cookies crumbling and falling apart? ›

Why are my cookies dry and crumbly? This is most likely a classic case of using too much flour. It's crucial to properly measure the flour in this recipe, as even 1 extra tablespoon of flour can completely change the structure of the cookies. You also might have over baked them!

Bakery or homemade cookies can be stored at room temperature two to three weeks or two months in the refrigerator. Cookies retain their quality when stored in the freezer for eight to 12 months.

Turbinado sugar, also going by the names “demerara”, or raw cane sugar, is much less refined than granulated table sugar. Turbinado is known for its large crystals, and is often used to sprinkle over hot cereals, baked goods, desserts, and other products where the sugar needs to hold up well to heat.

For basic baked goods like sugar cookies or pound cake, using maple syrup or honey instead of sugar lends the finished product a little extra flavor. You'll need a little less of these sweeteners for your recipe—just ¾ cup of maple syrup or honey replaces a full cup of granulated sugar.

When you decrease the sugar in a cookie recipe, you won't just get a result that's less sweet. You'll get cookies that are harder, drier, crumblier, and spread far less. It was also interesting to note that decreasing the sugar also yielded 1 less cookie dough ball.

Cooking honey at 40 degree Celsius or more can cause negative chemical change that makes it taste bitter. Cooking destroys the potent health benefits of honey.

Research determined that honey at a level of as little as 4%, improved frozen dough strength, increased volume, reduced staling and produced a loaf of bread that was rated significantly better than breads without honey.