Although having a healthier cookie may not sound as enticing as eating a cookie filled with sugars, fats or delicious chocolate, a nutritious cookie may be made that still tastes amazing. Fathoming can be a little complicated, but there are healthier ingredients and alternatives that can be added to cookies and they retain their flavour, so they’re not as bad for you. Implementing quick improvements in your new recipe for family cookies will help you stick to your diet and give you the little bit of sugar you want to make for your next dinner.
With so many people moving to health-conscious diets, sweets don’t need to be taken completely out of your diet. Alternatively, find some of the following tips to help make those delicious cookies for your kids.
1. Add Dried Fruit
For recipes that include chocolate chips or other additional sugar-based ingredients, try adding to your cookies bits of dried fruit. Dried fruits are safe to eat and contain natural sugars that will also add a sweet flavouring to your cookies. You can select fruits that complement the other flavours in your sweets, or you can easily play with various fruits you can find in the grocery store. Here are some dried fruits that are widely used in cookie baking and can be bought on the local market for groceries or farmers.:
Cherries
Raisins
Figs
Prunes
Cranberries
2. Think Whole Grains
Fiber is an important part of a balanced diet, so why not use fibre in your cookies? When baking your cookies from scratch, replace your all-purpose meal with much healthier wheat flour. And if you substitute half of the total amount of flour prescribed for a whole wheat flour recipe then you make a better cookie. The wheat flour makes the cookies denser than they will be for all-purpose flour, thereby holding more nutritious content and only a bit more fitting for the diet.
The addition of oats to the mixture is another trick some bakers use to add nutritious value to cookies. The oats will provide a crunchy texture to the cookie and can add extra fibre to the cookies.
3. Substitute your other Ingredients
Think of all the ingredients used to make your typical recipe for cookies. Now think about better ingredients that can make your cookies a little healthier but taste as good as usual. Replacing just a few different ingredients that you can make into a healthy cookie. Find any of the following ingredient alternatives for your safe batch of cookies:
Remove the oil and butter from your applesauce cookie recipe
Replace the eggs for an egg paste or even even egg whites
Replace milk chocolate chips with half-sweet bits of chocolate instead
Replace white sugar with sucanate or stevia (sugar cane).
Know you have to remember to make good food if you want to stay better. You can transform what would otherwise be an unhealthy, sugar-filled, fattening cookie into a healthier, lightly sweetened cookie snack with these simple tips.
