Rachel's Soy Butter Cookies
Soy butter cookies - alternative to peanut butter
This recipe for soy cookies is tried and true and has a great peanutty taste that children love.
Rachel's Soy Butter Cookies
With the growing number of children developing peanut allergies, most grocery stores, including Wal-Mart, now sell jars of soy butter in their regular peanut butter section or in the health foods departments. Soy butter can also be purchased at health food stores. It is made of ground soy beans and is very nutritious. The protein makes a good addition to a child's diet.
Soy butter tastes very much like peanut butter. Many children, who have food allergies, eat it with no problems. It is creamy and the same brown color, although a bit lighter. It can be substituted in most peanut butter recipes, using the same measurements.
List of ingredients:
1 cup softened butter or margarine.
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup soy butter
2 teaspoons vanilla flavoring
2 whole eggs
2 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 tablespoons granulated sugar ( for pressing the cookie tops)
Directions for 3 dozen cookies:
- Grease cookie sheets.
- Set oven to preheat at 350 degrees.
- Cream together the butter and sugars till soft and light.
- Add soy butter, vanilla and eggs.
- Mix thoroughly until smooth.
- Sift together the dry ingredients.
- Add slowly to the creamed batter.
- Form the dough into one-inch balls.
- Place on a greased cookie sheet.
- Press the top of each with a fork dipped in granulated sugar in a criss-cross pattern.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
Serve these cookies with milk in teacups for a toddler girls' tea party. See tea party ideas for little girls. Remember boys and dads love them too! The cookies tend to be more crumbly than cookies made with peanut butter, so try making them thicker and smaller than usual.
Even if children can eat peanut butter, they will benefit from learning about new foods that have nutritive value. Introducing these foods adds options to the child's daily diet. Try baking and serving these cookies as a lesson about food allergies. Students can help keep other children safe by understanding the seriousness of food allergies.
Try another peanut-free recipe for a no-cook candy made with tahini butter.
