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The holiday season is upon us and that means delicious and sometimes not so healthy treats. Laurel Hudson, culinary instructor at Wellspring Academies, gave Marvelous Girl a tasty cookie recipe that your family will love:
Gingerbread Cookies
Yield: 3 dozen cookies
Ingredients:
½ cup Fiber One original bran cereal
1 package whole wheat gingerbread cake or cookie mix
1 tbsp cinnamon
1 tbsp ginger
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
¼ tsp baking powder¼ cup granulated Splenda
Pinch of salt
½ cup canned pure pumpkin
¼ cup warm water
3 tbsp molasses
1 tsp vanilla
6 packets of Truvia no calorie sweetener
Pam spray
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Line a baking pan with parchment paper and spray lightly with Pam.
- In a food processor, grind the cereal until it looks like flour, then pour into a bowl.
- Add the gingerbread mix, all the spices, the baking powder, Splenda, and salt and mix well.
- In a small bowl, combine the pumpkin with the warm water, molasses, and vanilla and mix well.
- Add the pumpkin mixture to the other bowl and stir until blended.
- Knead the dough to combine.
- Roll the dough into 1/2” balls, making 36 cookies dough balls total, and place them on the cookie sheet.
- Flatten balls or scoops with the back of a spoon dipped in the Truvia, so the dough doesn’t stick to the spoon.
- Bake in the oven for 10-20 minutes, or until the edges are firm.
- Let cool for 5 minutes, then place in the refrigerator to cool completely.
- Remove from the pan and enjoy!
Approximate Nutritional Information:
54 calories/0.1g per cookie
Eggnog cookies recipe
Posted on: December 5, 2009
The holidays are here and who isn’t looking for a festive snack to celebrate the occasion? When my good friends, Brinton and Charlotte Colburn, said these cookies were fantastic and their three kids loved them, I knew I had to share the recipe with Marvelous Girl readers. Here’s the recipe from About.com:
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups flour, all purpose
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
3/4 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup purchased eggnog
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 large egg yolks
2 to 3 teaspoons ground nutmeg
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 300°. In a bowl combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg. Blend well with a whisk and set aside. In a large mixing bowl cream sugar and butter with an electric hand-held mixer. Add eggnog, vanilla and egg yolks; beat at medium speed until smooth. Add the flour mixture and beat at low speed just until dry ingredients are moistened. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased baking sheets, about 2 inches apart. Sprinkle lightly with nutmeg. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until bottoms are lightly browned. Remove to a flat surface with a spatula.
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Makes about 3 dozen
If your family isn’t into nutmeg, Charlotte substituted cinnamon on her cookies instead. Another option is using canned icing. Whatever you do, make the recipe your own. Then you’ll have a special treat your family will look forward to every holiday.
Thanks again to the Colburns for this marvelous recipe!!
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