Low Fat Sugar Cookies
Healthy Christmas Recipe
By Fitness and Freebies
These sugar cookies are SO good considering they are healthier and much lower in fat than the original versions. Olive oil replaces the butter, egg substitute whole eggs.
Recipe Ingredients
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 egg whites or egg substitute equivilant to 1 egg
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup skim milk
Recipe Directions
Whisk together first four ingrediants.
Stir in remaining ingrediants until thoroughly mixed.
Chill dough at least 1 hour or overnight.
Roll out on floured surface to 1/8th inch thick. Cut with cookie cutters. Place on cookie sheet sprayed lightly with non-fat cooking spray and bake at 375 degrees 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned.
Note:
Recipe yield may vary depending on dough thickness and the cookie cutter used.
Frost with powdered sugar with milk stirred in until desired consistency and colored sugars or other decorations of choice.
Number of cookies depends on the size of cookie cutters used, as does the amounts in the nutrition analysis.
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Christmas Fact
At Christmas, Ukrainians prepare a traditional twelve-course meal. A family's youngest child watches through the window for the evening star to appear, a signal that the feast can begin.
