DIET COOKIES!!!!

17th Dec 2009

Last week during my radio show, “Seth and Kitty Weighing In”  (which is every Thursday morning at 8:00 am on WONA in Winona, MS with Seth Kent) I had a listener call in to see if I could convert a family peanut butter cookie recipe to a lower calorie version of the same thing. The original recipe was 118 calories per cookie so it was pretty high. These are 90 per cookie so almost saved 30 calories per cookie. And HERE IT IS! I call them CashNut Brown Sugar Cookies! Check out the pic above!

They have, per each cookie - 90 calories - 10.4 grams of fat (but that’s only 2g Saturated Fat) - 1.3g of fiber and 8.5 carbs. And this is how you make them:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees - then mix together -

1 Cup creamy peanut butter

1/2 Cup Splenda brown sugar blend

2 Medium eggs whites

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

1 tesp baking soda

And you’ll need 12 whole cashews to top them for baking. 1/2 for each cookie..

Once everything is mixed well drop by spoon onto a nonstick baking sheet (Don’t use any cooking spray. I tried it on a few and they burnt on the bottom.) I got 24 cookies out of the recipe. After they are all on the sheet take a cashew half and press it down in the cookie. The original recipe for these cookies says they will melt down and become more cookie shaped but this recipe they didn’t do that so you’ll need to press them down slightly. Bake for 25 minutes but check after 20 to make sure they are not too done.

Then enjoy. In my mind 28 calories saved on a cookie means I can have 4 cookies instead of 3. I mean who in the heck eats one cookie?! They probably aren’t reading this blog because they more than likely don’t have food or weight issues…like I do.