Jan 25 2008
This is the one with sugar-free oatmeal cookies.
I took my old oatmeal cookie recipe and made it diabetic friendly. I think that is how I need to start looking at baking. In the recent past I’ve been searching for sugar-free or diabetic recipes, and I’ve been pretty disappointed. Instead I just need to tweak the recipes that I know work.
Here’s how to make these incredibly easy and amazingly scrumptious sugar-free cookies:
1 cup of margarine (2 sticks of butter) softened
1 cup of brown-sugar substitute
1/2 cup of Splenda
2 eggs
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of salt
3 cups of oatmeal* Heat your oven to 350°.
* Beat together margarine and sugars until creamy
* Add eggs and vanilla; beat well
* Add combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; mix well
* Stir in oats; mix well
* Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet
* Bake 10 minutes (until golden brown)
* Eat a few at a time…these aren’t carbohydrate free!
Catching up on some tv.
I’d take regular the sugar cookies too! But that sounds easy to make; I just wish I wasn’t so lazy.
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The biggest mistake people tend to make is assuming that replacing the sugar with an artificial sweetner somehow makes these foods “diabetes friendly”. The reality is that sugar is not really the enemy — flour is just as bad (if not worse) — on the glycemic index, bread rates 100, making it one of the fastest metabolized foods anywhere on earth (pure dextrose is about the only thing which is substantially faster). There is no reason to avoid certain foods altogether, and eliminating sugar does reduce unnecessary carbohydrates, but based on my own experience, the key is to minimize unnecessary carbs and when possible, include whole grains and fiber (oatmeal is a perfect example of this).