I love cookies. I could eat cookies for breakfast. In fact, in my young and skinny days I did eat cookies with my morning coffee while sitting at my desk at work. I didn’t see it as a problem but obviously that is not the breakfast of champions. As I got older, metabolism slowed, and weight began to pack on, I had to give up on my love for cookies. Yes, Cookie Monster lost a cookie eating companion. But it doesn’t have to be so cut in dry in the realm of baking. It is possible to have your cookie and eat it to. You simply have to be careful with serving size and ingredients.
I was given this recipe quite some time ago and have always enjoyed it. The cookies are low far and contain no eggs. Best of all they taste great even with a coffee with fat free half and half or just a glass of super cold skim milk. You may forget the sacrifice of fat you are making in the cookies and your milk!
Low Fat and Egg Free Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup applesauce
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F ( 175 degrees C ). Grease a cookie sheet.
In a medium bowl, stir together the brown sugar, white sugar, and applesauce. Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon; stir into the applesauce mixture. Add the rolled oats, raisins and chopped nuts (if desired); stir until combined.
Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool slightly before removing from the baking sheet.