Old-Fashioned Ice-Box Cookies
These truly do taste much like Old-Fashioned Ice-Box Cookies only with a lot less sugar. Pecans add a nice crunch.
By Fitness and Freebies
Recipe Ingredients
1/2 cup margarine
1/3 cup granulated sugar replacement
1/4 cup granulated fructose
2 tablespoons skim milk
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-3/4 cup all-purpose flour
Dash salt
1/4 cup finely chopped pecans
Recipe Directions
Using an electric mixer, thoroughly cream together margarine, sugar replacement, and fructose. Beat in skim milk, egg, and vanilla. Gradually add flour and salt. Stir to completely blend. Divide dough in half.
Shape each half into a 6-inch roll. Roll dough in the chopped pecans. Wrap each roll in wax paper. Chill dough in refrigerator overnight.
Cut each roll into 18 slices. Place slices on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.
Remove from cookie sheet, and cool on rack.
Nutrition information per cookie:
Recipe makes 18 servings
Serving Size: 1 cookie
Calories: 42;
Carbohydrates: 4g;
Exchange: 1/3 bread, 1/2 Fat
Variation: Diabetic Drop Cookies
Ingredients
1/2 cup margarine
One egg
2 tablespoons Sweet 'n' Low
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup buttermilk/sour cream
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup grated apple
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1 tablespoon vanilla
Recipe Directions
Cream shortening, egg, sugar substitute and butter. Add buttermilk. Mix in flour and baking soda, apple, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, soda, cloves and vanilla. Drop on greased cookie sheet.
Bake seven or eight minutes at 375-degrees.
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