Cookie Diet Recipes

A cookie is small, sweet and a thin cake. Cookies are often considered as a variation of cakes and their crispiness makes them interesting and delicious. Cookies are usually a popular snack food. Initially these cookies were meant to be miniature cakes and these cakes were called koekje which meant little cookie in the Dutch language. With time this word changed into what we call a cookie. Ordinarily cookies are loaded with calories but diet cookies can allow you to enjoy their wholesome taste without the calories. A diet cookie recipe tries using ingredients that are low in calorie content. Here are some cookie diet recipes just for you:

Diabetic Diet Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 2/3 cup plain flour
• ½ teaspoon salt (salt substitute)
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1 cup diet butter
• 2 teaspoon apple pie sauce
• 6 tablespoon sugar substitute
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 2/3 cup raisins
• 1 cup All Bran cereal

Process

• Sift the flour together with the salt and soda. Beat the butter and mix it well with vanilla, sugar substitute and egg so that it is well blended. This mixture will look rough and crumbly because of the butter.
• Now add the dry ingredients to the mixture together with the applesauce. Mix well and add the cereal and the raisins. You can pat the dough slightly thin on a pan. You can bake it on a 9 x 13 inch pan for 15 minutes at a temperature of around 375 degrees. Once it is cooled you can cut it into blocks. This cookie diet recipe contains only 23 calories per cookie.

Diet Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 8 ounces diet butter
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 ¼ cup sifted flour
• ¾ cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
• ¾ cup sprinkle sweet
• 2 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup chocolate chips (alternately 1 cup chopped nuts)

Process

• Beat the eggs and the diet butter together and add all the ingredients in it except chocolate chips. Beat this till you get a well blended mixture. This batter will be thick. Add in the chocolate chips.
• Take a teaspoonful of this batter and put it in an Teflon ungreased cookie sheet. Bake it in a preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes at a temperature of 375 degrees. This is a wonderful low calorie cookie diet recipe and each cookie will have only 33 calories.

Diet Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

Ingredients

• ¼ cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs (beaten)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ½ cup flour
• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 cup rolled oats (quick)
• ½ cup seedless raisins
• ¼ cup milk.

Process

• Sift the flour along with the salt, baking powder. Beat the eggs and mix it with the sifted flour along with rest of the ingredients so that it is well blended.
• Now using a teaspoon drop the mixture on a baking sheet that is greased and put it in the oven for baking for a period of 8 to 10 minutes at a temperature of 375 degrees.

Diet Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• ½ cup diet butter
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup sugar
• ¼ cup egg substitute
• ¾ cup peanut butter (unsalted)
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 ¼ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 ½ cup flour

Process

• Beat the butter and sugar in a container. Now stir in the egg substitute. Add the rest of the ingredients while stirring well.
• Divide the mixture and put it on a pan. Bake this for 12 to 15 minutes at a temperature of 350 degrees.