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I do not mess around with cookie ingredients. The few healthful cookies I've tried haven't been very good. However, I do like to reduce the amount of sugar in most baking I do, and I think the result doesn't suffer.
I do not mess around with cookie ingredients. The few healthful cookies I've tried haven't been very good. However, I do like to reduce the amount of sugar in most baking I do, and I think the result doesn't suffer.
I do also...same with muffins and loaf breads. Most recipes have way too much sugar to begin with.
I do also...same with muffins and loaf breads. Most recipes have way too much sugar to begin with.
Yes, especially the old recipes that I tend to use the most. My banana bread calls for 1 1/2 cups sugar, and my old 3 bean salad, for 3/4 cup sugar....eek. I cut the sugar in half for both of them.
Make carrot cookies with walnuts for some nutritional clout. I add dried berries to my applesauce-based oatmeal cookies -- they're almost a meal in themselves.
Now, I've tried to make those healthy cookies, those ones with applesauce instead of oil or whatever. They tasted like drywall. (Or what I assume drywall tastes like.) I made them again, but I added chocolate chips and dried cranberries. Still disgusting. I tried it a third time, with more chocolate chips. It didn't help. I tossed the rest of the applesauce, ate the chocolate chips from the bag, and called it a failed experiment.
I'm not a baker. I just don't enjoy the process. So when I want to make homemade cookies, these are the ones that I make. You don't even need a mixer (I don't have one) -- I've recently done it a couple of times just with a spoon and it works perfectly. They're a very forgiving cookie. Are they healthy? No, but they're a good treat and very surely not the worst-for-you cookies.
The best way to make nutritious cookies is to make them low carb and high fat, no grains, no sugars. I use xylitol for sweetening, and real butter. Here is a link for 50 great cookies. https://www.lowcarblab.com/best-low-carb-cookies/
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