| One of the things that most low carb eaters miss | | | | in chips. |
| is cookies and deserts. These days, however the | | | | Drop dough by level teaspoons onto greased |
| low carber need not go without as there are new | | | | cookie sheets. I find they come out better if I |
| ingredients you can use for baking that have few | | | | flatten the dough down on the sheet. Bake at 350 |
| or even no carbs. | | | | for 12 minutes, let cookies cool on trays for 2 |
| Here's a couple of recipes for low carb cookies | | | | minutes, then transfer to wax paper or wire |
| that you might enjoy: | | | | racks for further cooling. |
| Low Carb Chocolate Chip Cookies | | | | Makes 5 dozen cookies |
| I reduced some of the fat in this recipe by | | | | Serving size = 1 cookie |
| eliminating 1 egg yolk and replacing oil with apple | | | | Carbs = 5.5 gramscalories = 40 |
| sauce. You can reduce the fat and calories by | | | | Ginger Spice Cookies |
| about another 25% by using lowfat margarine | | | | These cookies are only mildly spicy, but if you |
| instead of butter, but watch out for the trans | | | | want more zing just add more of the spices! |
| fats in whatever you decide to substitute. | | | | Ingredients |
| Ingredients | | | | ½ cup butter softened |
| 1 ¾ cups Atkins Bake Mix | | | | ½ cup Splenda |
| 1 ½ cups Splenda | | | | 1 1/3 cup Atkins Bake Mix |
| 1 teaspoon baking soda | | | | ½ tsp baking soda |
| ½ teaspoon salt | | | | 1/4 tsp salt |
| ¾ cup butter | | | | 1 egg |
| 1 egg | | | | 1 tbsp vanilla extract |
| 1 egg white | | | | ½ tsp ginger |
| ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce | | | | ½ tsp nutmeg |
| 1 teaspoon vanilla extract | | | | ½ tsp cinnamon |
| ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips | | | | Preheat Oven to 375 degrees F. |
| Preheat oven to 350. Combine Bake mix, Splenda, | | | | Beat butter and Splenda until creamy. Add egg |
| and baking soda in a bowl and set aside. In | | | | and vanilla and mix well, until light and fluffy. Add |
| another bowl combine margarine and sugar | | | | Atkins Bake Mix, baking soda, salt and spices and |
| beating until creamy. Add eggs, applesauce, vanilla | | | | mix until well blended. |
| and mix well. Combine wet and dry ingredients | | | | Drop by rounded teaspoons onto baking sheet. |
| and use a mixer on low speed to blend well. Fold | | | | Bake 7 to 8 minutes. |