Low Calorie Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies
These Low Calorie Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies are just 36 calories each, they make the perfect Christmas cookies, and yes Santa loves these!Special Tip: If you don't have candy canes, but have candy peppermints, you can use 4 of those instead.
Equipment
- 2 Bowls
- Whisk or Fork
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour (or Gluten Free Flour)
- ⅔ cup Zero Calorie All-Natural Brown Sugar (or regular brown sugar)
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1 large candy cane (or 3 mini)
- ⅓ cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- To a large bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl combine the apple sauce, vanilla extract and water. Whisk together.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix together until just combined.
- Add the candy cane to a bag, and use a rolling pin to mash it into small pieces.
- Add 1/2 of the chocolate chips and fold into the batter, along with the candy cane pieces.
- Scoop out 16 cookie balls and place on the prepared baking sheet.
- Wet your hands a little and then press the cookies down a bit to form cookie rounds.
- Top with remaining chocolate chips.
- Bake for 7 minutes, then remove from the oven and let cool completely on the baking sheet (they will continue to cook on the sheet while they cool.)
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookieCalories: 36kcalCarbohydrates: 6.8gProtein: 0.8gFat: 0.5gSaturated Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 52mgPotassium: 10mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 1.4gCalcium: 1mgIron: 0mg
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