Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Here’s a recipe from my new book, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor. Undoctored carries on the Wheat Belly tradition of providing recipes that allow you to indulge without paying a health or weight price. I learned long ago that asking people simply to eat real, whole foods like meats and vegetables quickly backfired. Someone would be doing great, for example, until Thanksgiving rolled around, and they’d return 14 pounds heavier, inflamed, with disastrous labs (sky-high small LDL, increased insulin and blood sugars, etc.)–a metabolic mess–from indulging in pumpkin pie, biscuits, stuffing and other off-limit foods. That’s when it became clear that I needed to show people how to create such treats using benign ingredients that yielded none of these adverse effects. It meant that people could entertain, enjoy holidays, and keep the kids and grand kids happy by serving goodies without health problems. In Undoctored, I also provide a number of what I call “prototype recipes,” i.e., recipes meant to illustrate some method useful in grain-free, no-added-sugar, only-healthy-ingredient cooking and baking. (This is not one of them; this is just a simple recipe for some delightful cookies!) Peanut Butter Cup Cookies There’s something magical about the flavor combination of peanut butter and chocolate, here combined into a chewy cookie that kids will love. Just don’t tell them they’r...
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