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Baking lower-fat cookies

Baking lower-fat cookies recipe picture
Prep Time: 30 minutes or less | Cook Time: 30 minutes or less | Serves: 15
Dessert » Cookies » American
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Ingredients:

Baking lower-fat cookies recipe picture 12 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 margarine (or butter)
1/8 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup applesauce


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.


I have enlisted the help of Ice Mulder and Snappy Suit Mulder. (Scully was AWOL, let's pretend all of this happens during season 2)

Step 1:

Baking lower-fat cookies recipe picture 2Get 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:

Baking lower-fat cookies recipe picture 3Now, 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.

Step 3:

Baking lower-fat cookies recipe picture 4And then the applesauce...

Step 4:

Baking lower-fat cookies recipe picture 5Drop this abomination in with the margarine.

Step 5:

Baking lower-fat cookies recipe picture 6Pour out your sugar next.

Step 6:

Baking lower-fat cookies recipe picture 7If 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:

Baking lower-fat cookies recipe photos 8I didn't melt my margarine enough, so the mixture looks revolting. It'll look better though.

Step 8:

Baking lower-fat cookies recipe photos 9The time to add the vanilla and the almond is upon us.

Step 9:

step-by-step recipe photos 10You'll want a generous 2 cups of flour:

Step 10:

Baking lower-fat cookies recipe photos 11Get a nice scoop of baking powder to toss onto the flour cup before you mix it in with the margarine.

Step 11:

Baking lower-fat cookies recipe photos 12Slowly add in about half of the flour.

Step 12:

Baking lower-fat cookies cooking image 13Add in the rest. Now it doesn't look like that pile of barf anymore.

Step 13:

cooking image 14Get your chocolate chips.

Step 14:

cooking image 15Add in however many you want. I used the whole bag for my batch.

Step 15:

cooking image 16Digging right in is the best way to thoroughly mix in those chips.

Step 16:

cooking image 17Instead of greasing cooking sheets, you can just lay a piece of foil over a pan. Makes for easier cleanup.

Step 17:

cooking image 18Grab a small glob of dough and roll it inbetween your hands. Squeeze it between your palms to flatten it.

Step 18:

cooking image 19Set 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.

Step 19:

If you use less applesauce, your cookies will turn out looking like my last night's batch (flatter, and a bit browner and softer):

Step 20:

cooking image 21Give it some time and you should have some soft, chocolate cookies!

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