Question:
Anyone have a good low fat low sugar receipe for chocchip cookies?

   — Rich H. (posted on January 20, 2002)

January 20, 2002
I baked some chocolate chip cookies at Christmas following the from Crisco sticks (just my preferance of the best recipe) I substituted the brown sugar with Twin Brown Sugar and the sugar with fake sugar from Fifty/50, you could use Splenda or whatever you like. I didn't substitute the fat as I was experimenting with the sugar but they do make fat substitutes you can buy at the grocery store. The cookies were great and no one knew the difference. There was a slight difference in taste to me but that could just be me postop and it was really slight.
   — Elizabeth A.

January 21, 2002
Not an answer...SORRY! I was wondering the same thing. Isn't there massive sugar just in the chocolate chips? I looked for sugar substitute choc. chips but didn't find any. In the diatetic section of my grocery store they had a bag of no sugar added choc. chip soft n chewy type cookies by Sorbee. I haven't tried them yet. They are made with mannitol which is a sugar alcohol. It was reasonable w/ fat and 100 cals for 1 large cookie. When I'm on solids next week I will have 1 as a treat. If anyone knows where to get those sugar free choc. chips...let us know.
   — Karen B.

January 22, 2002
I haven't tried it yet, but I was told that you can use unsweetened applesauce instead of oils or other fats in baking and a good sugar substitute instead of natural sugar.
   — Melissa S.

January 22, 2002
I don't know about the chocolate chips--surely there are some available out there somewhere!--but the applesauce thing DOES work great! You can use any kind of baby food fruit puree for different tastes. Banana nut bread is great because the bananas make it really moist. Prune puree is really good in baked chocolate stuff. I know it sounds gross but it tastes really rich, not pruney. I have also used apricot for some things where you want a more distinct taste. I don't know about for cookies, but definitely for breads and cakes. Somebody also had said there was a protein powder you could cook with. I am envisioning a banana-nut loaf with protein powder for a high-protein, carb-tasting snack. YUM!
   — ctyst

October 17, 2002
There is a company called Sunspire that makes grain-sweetened chocolate chips, peanut butter chips and vanilla chips. I've only found the chocolate chips, but they are PHENOMENAL. I've used regular cookie recipes, and substituted turbinado sugar for the white sugar, and also turbinado sugar plus sugar-free syrup for the brown sugar. See my profile for more recipe information.
   — Lynette B.