This evening, Steve and I were baking some low-carb cookies - that sort of experimental baking that you
do when you are feeling a little tired of Carb-Smart ice cream after every dinner.
I fished out a new low-carb cookbook and whipped up a batch. I baked a couple to see if the recipe needed adjusting. It did. They were pretty "short" - downright crumbly, not very interesting, and not nearly sweet enough for anyone's taste.
So, I adjusted the recipe. Steve watched with great interest as I added more Splenda and some peanut butter (one fast way to change a sugar cookie). For good measure, I added a tiny sprinkle of cinnamon.
We baked up a full batch (Steve being out of patience and needing any sort of cookie BADLY at this point), and set them aside to cool a bit.
Steve couldn't wait any longer and bit into one. He said "They're still pretty crumbly".
I asked, "How do they taste? Do we need to add anything?"
He replied "Elmers".
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LOL!! Cute post, thanks for the laugh.
That's very funny and some low-carb receipt's just don't work and taste very well!
Looks like you have fun with your blogs. Enjoy.
Sounds like they were missing the glue that holds them together... butter!
Maybe molasses? Seriously, there should be a law against healthy cookies...
Hi Sara: Wait just one minute! Low-carb cookies? Isn't that an oxymoron. Can they possible be any good?
:)
I eat a gluten free diet, try flours without gluten (a protein I think ) if for some reason you wanted crumbly, tasteless cookies. I think gluten holds thing together, I wonder if you can buy gluten. In commercial foods that have no reason to have gluten sometimes wheat gluten is added in. To make it hold together? As a thickener?
People will sometime mistake ordering gluten free as ordering carb free. A local pizzeria has a carb free pizza which is GF because it has no dough, it is served on crumbles.
Steve & Sara, I'm there with Rick on this one...healthy cookie is a bit of an oxymoron.
I think that I'm going to have to try a new recipe - and start with 1/2 of a batch! Wishing all of you baking sucess! --Sara
They sound good but probably more carbs than I can have yet.
LOL...sounds like a cake my Mom made last week. A new recipei and she forgot a couple of items.
You know when I hit middle age I realized I could no longer eat a whole row of cookies in 1 sitting,because if my Dry Cleaner found out he would become jealous and shrink my clothes !!!
My cookies never did turn out even when I used the good recipes --- just buy them!