My parents' generation has the perception that peanut butter is for kids, but it's totally shifted now that people know about healthy fats," she says. Oreos might be the more famous cookie, but peanut-shaped Nutter Butters still have a passionate fanbase. However, Grassby says a small amount of added sugar isn't necessarily bad if it means people eat nut butters instead of sugary snacks. I read that this soaking method helps to deactivate some enzyme inhibitors and make the nuts more digestible. You also can’t go wrong serving these sandwich cookies with a glass of plain, plant-based, or chocolate milk.

Peanut butter: To give these cookies the best possible texture, add 1 cup of peanut butter to the dough.

An earlier population study from 2015 found that eating nuts was linked to lower levels of diabetes, whereas peanut butter wasn't. Plus, making your own nut butter allows you to create your own blends, add fun mix-ins, control salt content, AND save money!

I did a mix with everything I had: almonds, cashews, pecans, walnuts, and hemp hearts, then added vanilla extract and cinnamon for the mix-ins. In the end, the outrage didn't seem to have much of an effect since round Nutter Butters are still available today, per Snackworks.

Besides break room vending machines, if there's one place you're sure to find a package of Nutter Butters, it's anywhere there's a blood donation site.

Nutter Butter cookies are one of my favorite guilty pleasures — but I had no idea they were so easy to make yourself at home! It might come as a surprise, therefore, that a study in 2019 found no such benefits with peanut butter.With it’s crunchy texture, a graham cracker crust goes perfect with this Nutter Butter Pie against its smooth filling as opposed to traditional flaky pie crust. I have roasted my own fresh raw pecans (nothing added during roasting) and then blended into pecan butter. Step 6 Make filling: In a large bowl, cream together peanut butter and butter until light and fluffy. But some of these cells are broken down in the process of becoming nut butter, releasing the nut's nutrients before we eat it.