Baking lower-fat cookies
Apr 18, 2005 by purity control | 0 Comments| Share it:
Ingredients
- 2 heaping cups of all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup of white sugar (can be a mixture of brown/white if you don't have enough of white. To make it ultra vegan, you can use any turbinado #1)
- 1/4 heaping teaspoon of baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract (not necessary. I like using it though)
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips (add as much as you want)
- A tablespoon and a half of water (if the dough is too sticky)
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/8 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup applesauce
Step 1
For the last three ingredients, you can alter it around. You can do half oil, half margarine or half oil, half applesauce, or 1/2 cup butter and 2 eggs, whatever you desire. The more applesauce you use, though, will create a rubbery dough and a chewy, cakey cookie. This recipe is really easy to work with if you don't have eggs and butter.
You're going to need to pre-heat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Get a nice big bowl and drop in your stick of margarine. The vegan-friendly brand I used was Nucoa. You'll want it soft, so you can nuke the stick for about 15-20 seconds until it's squishy.Step 2
Now, measure out a bit of oil and add in your applesauce. Enlist the help of someone else to be your spotter in case if your oil bottle is larger than you.
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If you're like me and you ran out of normal sugar, you can combine it with cane sugar. It won't make the cookie as crisp, if that's what you like but it's great when you don't have enough normal sugar to go around.
Now, if you used brown sugar, tap your spoon down to pack it all in. Toss it in with the applesauce/oil/margarine blob.Step 7
I didn't melt my margarine enough, so the mixture looks revolting. It'll look better though.
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Get a nice scoop of baking powder to toss onto the flour cup before you mix it in with the margarine.
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Instead of greasing cooking sheets, you can just lay a piece of foil over a pan. Makes for easier cleanup.
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Grab a small glob of dough and roll it in between your hands. Squeeze it between your palms to flatten it.
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Set the flattened spheres of cookie dough a bit apart from each other. Bake them for about 10 minutes, give or take a couple. All depending on your oven and how quickly they will lightly, lightly brown.
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If you use less applesauce, your cookies will turn out looking like my last night's batch (flatter, and a bit browner and softer):
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Give it some time and you should have some soft, chocolate cookies!
Now that you have learned how to make baking lower-fat cookies, please be sure to view these other cookies recipes. Also, you will love these American recipes.
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