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We are stuck in the snow and DH is wanting to bake cookies. But he's on a strict calorie controlled diet...he can eat anything as long as he stays under his calorie limit. So I need a low cal yummy tasting cookie recipe.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Hi Holly,
There is a thread over on CI about sugar substitutes and cookies, someone posted a bunch of splenda cookie recipes that look pretty good, I copied them for the future. Let us know what you think if you try them.

Here's the link: http://www.americastestkitchen.com/ibb/posts.aspx?postID=268847&postRepeater1-p=1#269557

Spritz are sort of calorie controlled just by their size. It's easy to have just one or two.

Good luck stuck with your "husband who wants to make cookies" dilemma.....mine has been getting sudden culinary epiphanies (do we have spell check?) that are really logistically impossible without some preplanning.

Lynn

Thanks for pointing me to the CI thread. They have a lot of fat -- I'll have to think about ways to lighten them. I told DH that "cookies" and "low cal" was an oxymoron.

I found that simply keeping a log of calories, http://caloriecount.about.com/ works fine, helped me lose weight.

In 1985 Jane Brody published Jane Brody's Good Food Book, which is still (IMHO) the best good-for-you cookbook ever published. Here's her recipe for Carrot-Oatmeal cookies, which are really good. She notes that you can reduce the brown sugar and molasses to 1/4 cups of each and still produce an acceptable cookie -- maybe, but your carrots have to be really sweet. And don't skip the salt.

Makes 3-4 Dozen

1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup cup unsulphured light molasses
1 egg
1 cup unbleached white flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 cup nonfat dry milk
1/2 teaspoon salt, if desired
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup grated carrots (2 medium-large)
1/2 cup raisins
1 1/4 cups quick rolled oats

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
2. In a large bowl, beat together the oil, brown sugar, molasses, and egg.
3. In another bowl, sift together the flour baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, dry milk, salt, and cinnamon. Add the flour mixture to the oil mixture.
4. Add the carrots raisins, and oats to the flour-and-oil mixture, and stir the ingredients to mix them well. Drop the dough by the rounded teaspoonful about 2 inches apart onto lightly oiled baking sheets (I'd use parchment paper here -- remember this was printed in the 80's).
5. Bake the cookies for 10 minutes or until they are lightly browned around the edges. Remove the cookies to a rack to cool.

Lindsay, Thanks! This looks good!