Recipe - Low-Fat Cookies

2 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
Three fourths cup Apple sauce (sweet; not
savoury)
2/3 cup Apple or pear juice
concentrate; or less
1 cup Wholemeal flour
1 cup Rolled oats
1 cup Wheatgerm
1 cup High protein baby cereal
(heinz) or
1 cup Barley bran
1 teaspoon Bicarbonate of soda (baking
soda) dissolved in:
1 teaspoon Hot water

OPTIONS
2 cup Choclate chips or sultanas
or raisins or other dried
fruits (tropical ones are
nice too) or nuts of your
choice or preserved ginger
or anything you fancy or
any combination

From: Viviane Buzzi viv@physics.unimelb.EDU.AU

Date: 25 Nov 1994 18:04:43 0500
I don't know if what follows is really low in calories but they are low in
fat if you leave out the chocolate chips and use some sultanas/raisins
instead which is very nice too. A recipe follows for low fat cookies, a
recipe I modified from a great recipe for chocchip cookies. Apart from
being low in fat (how low depends on whether or not you include chocolate
chips and how much if you do) they are also very high in fibre and are very
nutritious.

Beat together eggs, vanilla, apple sauce and pear juice concentrate. In a
separate bowl, mix together the flour, oats, wheatgerm and cereal or bran.
Stir these into the egg mixture until well combined. Mix in the bicarb of
soda mixture. This is the point at which you can add whatever you like:

2 cups choclate chips OR sultanas OR raisins OR other dried fruits
(tropical ones are nice too) OR nuts of your choice OR preserved ginger OR
anything you fancy OR any combination of the above.

Stir the chocolate chips or other additions into the mixture. Drop
tablespoons of the mixture onto greased and lined baking trays and bake in
a preheated 190C/375F oven for about 10 12 minutes.

Let cool on a rack and store in an airtight tin. Makes about 40.

Note: These cookies have no added cane sugar....I personally think they
would be better if you use 1 cup of brown sugar or 2/3 cup honey instead of
the juice concentrate...I think this is better for the taste and the
texture although they are delicious either way. Whatever you use, you
aren't adding any fat so it's OK. This makes them higher in calories though
but in any case, they are very nice if you want nutritious, high fibre
cookies.

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