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Do you need to bake holiday cookies? Are you interested in making healthier cookies? If so, try some of these Healthy Holiday Cookie Recipes...
- Angel Delights
- Nicki's Healthy Cookie Recipe
- Healthy No Bake Cookie
- Double Dark Chocolate Biscotti
- Whole Grain (gluten free) Gingersnaps
Do you have a favorite healthy holiday cookie recipe?
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Contributing Editor Catherine Morgan
at Catherine-Morgan, Capessa Health, Women4Hope
This is just so wrong.
Alanna Kellogg December 20, 2008 - 6:19am<rant>On two counts.
There really is no such thing as a healthy cookie. Combine butter and flour and sugar and well, whatever you think, it's still a sweet something. You can use 'more healthful' ingredients, a little whole wheat here, a little fruit there. But the recipes you've linked to nearly all rely on faux ingredients like 'vegetable oil spread' (which will have 50 chemical ingredients) or rely on portion size to make them 'healthy' (which is a great idea, by the way) but truly, ingredient-wise are no healthier than anything else.
Why would we want there to be a healthy cookie? Eat your broccoli, have a salad, drink your milk, eat well overall and then sit down and savor a really good cookie, one made with real butter, in all its sweet goodness.
< / end rant>PS Back to getting ready for my cookie swap, where for 12 years my friend Ann has attempted to bring 'healthy cookies' and year after year, they've been complete duds, so much so that our friend Jim, identifying Ann's cookies among all the others, tosses them in the dustbin, without a single taste. Now she brings red and green rice krispie bars -- a huge hit with kids and grown-ups alike.
Alanna Kellogg
Kitchen Parade &
A Veggie Venture