Thursday 8 October 2015

How to Keep Cookies both Tasty and Healthy?

Baking Cookies can be easy and healthy. In restaurants they add an excess amount of butter in the cookies and these contains between 6 to 47 g fat almost. The cookies in some popular restaurant contain as much 50gm saturated fat in a single cookie. That’s why there is shortage of healthy cookies. These homemade cookies will make the best Cookie Gifts for your loved ones.

There are some easy tips that any cook can take to make delicious and restaurant style cookies. There are only some simple replacements that will make your cookie recipe healthier and tastier. So grab that recipe book and make some delicious cookies at home. You can also make healthy and delicious Brownie Gifts for celebrations by using these steps.

First of all there is the classic butter or margarine trade off. It is made from vegetable oil.  So it contains no cholesterol and highly saturated form of fat. It’s  better if you can choose the lighter color margarine. Margarine helps to reduce 80% fat in the cookies. By making these cookies, lose their fluff. It is because of the excess amount of water in margarine. To sort out this problem you can add brown sugar instead of white into the dough, this removes some amount of water while baking.

Another simple way for making healthy cookies as a Cookie Gifts is the removal of high saturated fat elements. Look at your recipe and search each fat item in this. You can replace the butter with applesauce or plain yogurt. You can also exchange peanut butter with peanut spread. You need to avoid and replace big calorie items like shortening butter and lard. So, just think of something that makes your cookies tasty and delicious.
So, a few making differences in your favorite recipe can make a world difference. On this plus point is that you get avoid that fat saturated restaurant cookies. Do this adventure of finding the perfect mixture by trying simple ways to make them healthy and tasty.