Less-Sugar Sugar Cookies
The recipe Less-Sugar Sugar Cookies can be made in roughly 45 minutes. This recipe serves 12 and costs 23 cents per serving. One serving contains 102 calories, 3g of protein, and 3g of fat. It works well as an inexpensive side dish. 1282 people have made this recipe and would make it again. It is perfect for Christmas. Head to the store and pick up almond extract, ground nutmeg, sugar, and a few other things to make it today. It is brought to you by Green Lite Bites. With a spoonacular score of 5%, this dish is very bad (but still fixable). Cranberry Sugar Free Chewy Sugar Cookies with Pistachios, Happy Sugar Cookie Day — Amish Sugar Cookies, and Whole Wheat Refined Sugar Free Sugar Cookies are very similar to this recipe.
Servings: 12
Ingredients:
1 tsp vanilla or almond extract
1 tsp baking powder
Decorating Glaze (recipe below)
2 tbsp butter (28g)
1 egg
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
2 tbsp low fat Cream cheese (28g)
1 tbsp skim milk
1/3 cup sugar (66g)
1 1/2 cups White Whole Wheat Flour (180g)
Equipment:
oven
hand mixer
bowl
cookie cutter
baking sheet
wax paper
Cooking instruction summary:
Preheat oven to 350ºF.Weigh out the flour.Combine the flour, baking powder, and nutmeg. Set aside.Mixing with a whisker is an easy way to combine dry ingredients.Add the butter, cream cheese, sugar and extract to another bowl.Using an electric hand mixer, cream the butter, cream cheese, sugar and extract.Beat the egg to the sugar mixture for 1 minute extractAdd about 1/3 of the flour mixture to the bowl.Mix on low speed until just combined the add another 1/3.Finally add the last 1/3 and 1 tbsp of milk to help incorporate everything. It will be thick.My poor $10 beater got a workout!At this point you can add some food color if you like. We went with green since we were making mostly trees.Gather all the dough and form a flat ball.Cover in saran wrap and refrigerate while you make the glazes.Decorating Glaze2 tbsp powder sugar1 tsp water (or 1/4 tsp extract + 3/4 tsp water)squirt of food coloringPlace everything in a small bowl.Mix well.Now let the fun begin!I created a little cookie decorating station.Sprinkle a little flour on the counter to help the dough not stick. Let the kids roll!Shoot for about 1/8 of an inch thick.Have fun with your favorite cookie cutters.Lay on a cookie sheet. They shouldn’t stick but a little non-stick spray never hurt anyone. ;)Bake for around 10 minutes until the bottom just starts to brown. Remove them from the cookie sheet and let them cool on some wax paper.This will make clean up from the decorating a cinch!Have fun!Don’t forget sprinkles they stick wonderfully to the glaze.Let dry.Then enjoy all your hard work!Both times I’ve made this receipe I ended up with 31 cooking but it will depend on the size of you cookie cutters. One of ours was small so I’m estimating the recipe to make 2 dozen. That makes 12 servings of 2 cookies each at normal size.
Step by step:
1. Preheat oven to 350ºF.Weigh out the flour.
2. Combine the flour, baking powder, and nutmeg. Set aside.
3. Mixing with a whisker is an easy way to combine dry ingredients.
4. Add the butter, cream cheese, sugar and extract to another bowl.Using an electric hand mixer, cream the butter, cream cheese, sugar and extract.Beat the egg to the sugar mixture for 1 minute extract
5. Add about 1/3 of the flour mixture to the bowl.
6. Mix on low speed until just combined the add another 1/3.Finally add the last 1/3 and 1 tbsp of milk to help incorporate everything. It will be thick.My poor $10 beater got a workout!At this point you can add some food color if you like. We went with green since we were making mostly trees.Gather all the dough and form a flat ball.Cover in saran wrap and refrigerate while you make the glazes.Decorating Glaze2 tbsp powder sugar1 tsp water (or 1/4 tsp extract + 3/4 tsp water)squirt of food coloring
7. Place everything in a small bowl.
8. Mix well.Now let the fun begin!I created a little cookie decorating station.Sprinkle a little flour on the counter to help the dough not stick.
9. Let the kids roll!Shoot for about 1/8 of an inch thick.Have fun with your favorite cookie cutters.Lay on a cookie sheet. They shouldn’t stick but a little non-stick spray never hurt anyone. ;)
10. Bake for around 10 minutes until the bottom just starts to brown.
11. Remove them from the cookie sheet and let them cool on some wax paper.This will make clean up from the decorating a cinch!Have fun!Don’t forget sprinkles they stick wonderfully to the glaze.
12. Let dry.Then enjoy all your hard work!Both times I’ve made this receipe I ended up with 31 cooking but it will depend on the size of you cookie cutters. One of ours was small so I’m estimating the recipe to make 2 dozen. That makes 12 servings of 2 cookies each at normal size.
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