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    Sour on Sweets?: 7 Better-for-You Cookies

    In the mood for a cookie? Baking cookies with your kids is a time-honored tradition, but sometimes you want to make them without quite so much sugar and butter. By Janssen Bradshaw

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      No-Bake (and No Sugar!) Peanut Butter Cookies
      Ingredients:
      1/2 cup unsalted almonds
      1/2 cup pitted dates
      1/4 cup creamy peanut butter or almond butter
      3/4 teaspoon vanilla

      Notes: Yields 12-15 small cookies

      Directions:
      In a food processor, blend almonds until they are ground into a coarse meal.

      Add remaining ingredients and blend until it comes together in a moist crumb. (If it's not sticky enough to hold together when you... more 
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      No-Bake (and No Sugar!) Peanut Butter Cookies
      Ingredients:
      1/2 cup unsalted almonds
      1/2 cup pitted dates
      1/4 cup creamy peanut butter or almond butter
      3/4 teaspoon vanilla

      Notes: Yields 12-15 small cookies

      Directions:
      In a food processor, blend almonds until they are ground into a coarse meal.

      Add remaining ingredients and blend until it comes together in a moist crumb. (If it's not sticky enough to hold together when you pinch it, add a bit more peanut butter).

      Roll dough into balls a little smaller than golf balls. Press the tops with a fork twice (once going east/west and once north/south) to flatten.

      Refrigerate about 30-60 minutes, until firm. Devour! less 

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