Description
Homemade sugar-free date cookies offer a healthy alternative to traditional sweets. Packed with natural sweetness and wholesome ingredients, these treats provide delightful flavor without refined sugars you’ll crave.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1.5 cups (360 ml) pitted dates
- 1.5 cups (360 ml) quick oats
- 0.5 cup (120 ml) natural peanut butter
- hot water (for soaking dates)
- 1 fresh jar of peanut butter (for best quality)
Instructions
- Preparation: Pulverize rolled oats in a food processor until achieving a fine flour-like consistency for the cookie foundation.
- Date Preparation: Extract excess moisture from softened dates, ensuring a compact texture for optimal dough formation.
- Dough Mixing: Blend processed dates with peanut butter in the food processor, creating a cohesive, malleable mixture that binds smoothly when pressed.
- Shaping: Mold the mixture into uniform tablespoon-sized spheres, positioning them symmetrically on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Flattening: Delicately press each dough ball with fingertips, crafting rustic circular shapes that will maintain their form during baking.
- Baking: Slide the cookie sheet into a preheated 350°F oven, rotating midway through the 10-12 minute cooking duration to ensure even golden-brown edges.
- Doneness Check: Examine cookie bottoms for a rich golden color, recognizing the top surface may not dramatically transform during baking.
- Cooling Process: Rest cookies on the baking sheet for 10 minutes, allowing initial stabilization and structural integrity development.
- Final Cooling: Transfer cookies to a wire rack, enabling complete cooling and achieving the perfect texture for consumption and storage.
- Storage: Secure the baked delicacies in an airtight container, preserving their quality at room temperature for up to 10 days.
Notes
- Precision Grinding: Pulse oats into ultra-fine flour for smoother, more consistent cookie texture.
- Moisture Management: Completely drain dates to prevent soggy or overly dense cookies.
- Dough Consistency Check: Ensure mixture holds together when gently pressed, indicating proper ingredient integration.
- Cooling Technique: Allow cookies to rest on baking sheet first, then transfer to wire rack for optimal structural stability and crisp edges.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Snacks, Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 13
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 5g
- Sodium: 0mg
- Fat: 6g
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 22g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 0mg