Friends...

[gerisullivan]

...research recipes and make you oatmeal-cherry-cranberry cookies with Sunsweet Lighter Bake in place of the butter so the warm-from-the-oven cookies have just a quarter gram of fat each.

And what are those three grams of fat doing in a half cup of dry oatmeal, anyway? Especially when the recipe calls for 3 cups of the grain?

Many thanks, Elaine! For the cookies, for your presence, and for all of the help these last two weeks. Much appreciated!

Comments

[parsleigh.livejournal.com]

I've never seen this before. Does it taste pretty good? And where do you find it. My mom is diabetic and this might be a good option.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

It was on a top corner shelf next to all of the oils and shortening at my grocery store.

lesliet_ma is right. A tablespoon of Sunsweet Lighter Bake has 9 grams of carbs, 5 of them from sugar. I love how the label says "dried plums" to avoid the "ewww, prunes" contingent. It also has dried apples.

The cookies do taste good. They don't have that greasy, buttery goodness that adds so much flavor to oatmeal raisin cookies, but they're chewy and tasty. The dried cherries and cherry-flavored cranberries Elaine used instead of raisins add a nice extra boost of tangy flavor.