Lower Fat Double Chocolate Chip Raisin Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil or melted butter, cooled (any shortening)
• 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or more to taste)
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract (optional)
• 2 large eggs room temperature
• 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips (or milk chocolate)
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup chopped nuts (optional- will change fat and calorie content)

Directions

This recipe takes the fat content to about 1/4 of any original chocolate chip cookie recipe. The cookies are a bit lighter in texture, but still soft and delicious.

1. Preheat oven to 375
2. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper
3. Cream sugars, apple sauce and shortenings together (if using liquid shortening, beat with electric mixer for 5 minutes to break down the sugar)
4. Add eggs, 1 at a time, and extracts, beat well until thoroughly combined
5. Add salt and baking soda, beat well
6. Slowly add flour, beat well
7. Stir in chips, raisins and optional nuts
8. Drop with cookie scoop onto parchment, bake 10-12 minutes

Nutritional Information (without nuts)

60 Servings

Amount Per Serving

• Calories 60.7
• Total Fat 2.4 g
• Saturated Fat 1.5 g
• Polyunsaturated Fat 0.1 g
• Monounsaturated Fat 0.5 g
• Cholesterol 7.7 mg
• Sodium 42.8 mg
• Potassium 37.4 mg
• Total Carbohydrate 10.5 g
• Dietary Fiber 0.6 g
• Sugars 5.8 g
• Protein 1.0 g

I bake Pedro cookies every day. It’s part of his Brazilian culture to eat a little something sweet after meals. If I bake 12 cookies at a time, 12 will be eaten at a time. So…I have learned a trick:

Use the cookie scoop and ball all of the dough. Place in a container with a good fitting lid, and bake as you need. I use my toaster oven and they come out just fine!

For specific nutritional information, I used Spark People nutrition calculator:
https://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp

Regular recipe has:

110 calories per cookie and 7g. fat (with nuts)

Happy Baking to YOU!

Shereen Rios BAS, CPT

• January 16, 2020
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