Cottage Cheese Cookies from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

Cottage Cheese Cookies Recipe

Recipe Ingredients:

1 cup whole-wheat flour
1/4 cup nonfat powdered milk
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp salt, (optional)
1/4 cup bran
1/4 cup wheat germ
1/2 cup raisins
1/4 cup reduced-calorie margarine, softened
1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese
1/4 cup sugar
2 tbsp honey
1/4 cup egg substitute
1 tsp vanilla

Recipe Instructions:

Sift the flour, dry milk, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Add bran, wheat germ, and raisins.

In a large mixing bowl, beat margarine and cottage cheese until smooth. Add the sugar and honey and beat until fluffy. Add the egg substitute and vanilla and beat the mixture again.

Stir the reserved flour mixture into the cottage cheese mixture until they are just blended.

Drop dough by the rounded teaspoonful about 2 inches apart on cookie sheets coated with nonstick vegetable cooking spray.

Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes or until the edges of the cookies turn golden. Remove the cookies from the pan to a rack to cool.

This recipe yields 30 cookies. Serving size: 2 cookies.

Exchanges Per Serving: 1 Fat, 1 Starch/Bread.

Nutrition Facts: Calories 132; Calories from Fat 27; Total Fat 4g; Saturated Fat 1g; Cholesterol 1mg; Sodium 180mg; Without Added Salt 142mg; Carbohydrate 19g; Dietary Fiber 2g; Protein 5g.

Comments: These soft, cakelike cookies are packed with nutritious ingredients.

Source:
"American Diabetes Association at http://www.diabetes.org"
S(Formatted for MC6):
"07-14-2002 by Joe Comiskey - jcomiskey@krypto.net"
Copyright:
"© American Diabetes Association, 1998"

Servings: 15

“Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.”

~ Pearl Buck (1892-1973) American Nobel Prize winning author.

 

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