low fat low cal cookie recipes

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yes, they exist - courtesy of the lovely Crescent Dragonwagon and her book Passionate Vegetarian.

When making those recipes and passing them on, please acknowledge Crescent. She is very good about acknowledging her sources!



Crescent Dragonwagon's Excellently Reasonable Brownies

Ingredients:

• 5 tablespoons butter


• 1 1/2 oz unsweetened chocolate


• 1 cup sifted white unbleached flour
  
• 1 cup + 1 1/2 teaspoons unsweetened Cocoa powder
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
  
• 1 large egg + whites of 2 large eggs
  
• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  
• 2 tablespoons semi sweet chocolate chips
  

Procedure:

1. preheat oven to 350 Fahrenheit


2. prepare 8 inch baking square pan
   
3. melt butter and chocolate over very low heat
   
4. whisk together flour, cocoa, salt, and baking powder
   
5. take butter chocolate mix off the heat
   
6. stir in sugar, egg, egg whites and vanilla
   
7. mix liquid and dry ingredients with a wooden spoon. don't overbeat
   
8. stir in choc chips
   
9. pour into pan and bake for 20-25 minutes, until firm outside and still slightly gooey inside
   
10. let cool, cut, enjoy
    

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Crescent Dragonwagon's Pecan-Cinnamon Triangles

Ingredients:

• 1 3/4 cups unbleached white flour


• 1 cup semolina flour
  
• 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
  
• 1/3 cup sugar
  
• 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  
• 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon warm water
  
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  
• 1/2 cup pecans
  

Preparation:

1. preheat oven to 450 Fahrenheit (very hot oven essential)


2. make a dough out of flours, sugar, cinnamon, salt, vanilla and water
   
3. divide dough into 16 small pieces, dust with flour, let them rest for 10 minutes
   
4. chop pecans into medium fine meal (food processor; NOTE: I can't replicate this with my equipment; for me the pecans always come out as a sticky slodge)
   
5. for each ball:
   
   
   
   • sprinkle with pecan meal
   
   
   • roll out
     
   • sprinkle second side with pecans
     
   • roll out until you have see-through disc
     
   
   Don't worry, this dough can take it!
   
6. cut disc into 8-10 triangles
   
7. bake 3-6 minutes until cookies start to bubble. then flip and bake another 2-4 minutes until golden. The critters burn easily.
   
   

Rolling the dough is very therapeutic, I can tell you.


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Crescent Dragonwagon's Maple Oatmeal Cookies

I took these to GEEXMOOT.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter, softened


• 3/4 cup grade B maple syrup (dark)
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  
• 2 cups rolled oats
  

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 325 Fahrenheit


2. prepare cookie sheets
   
3. cream butter
   
4. beat in maple syrup, 1/4 cup at a time
   
5. add vanilla
   
6. place flour in new bowl, sift in baking powder and salt
   
7. add oats to flour and toss well
   
8. combine liquid and dry ingredients with wooden spoon, don't overbeat
   
9. drop batter by rounded teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets; leave 2 inches between cookies
   
10. bake until firm (15 minutes)
    
11. remove, let cool, then remove to wire rack
    

I made the brownies today. V. yummy.

Oh, and before I forget:

I am SCARIER than angua9!

YAY!

She is an Atheist, but me, I'm a DEMOCRAT. Go eat hot cookies, Georgie. And then we'll go talk a bit about those long words ...


Threat rating: High. The Bush administration is
concerned that it may not get a second term.
Therefore, we are going to change the rules so
that each Democrat vote only counts as 0.2
votes because Democrat is a shorter word than
Republican


What threat to the Bush administration are you?
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