Recipe Makeovers: Low-Cal Holiday Cookies

By the editors of FITNESS magazine; Additional recipes by Emily Dorn

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We took our favorite holiday cookies recipes and sent them to our Healthy Test Kitchen for a makeover. The challenge: Keep each cookie's yummy taste while lowering fat and calories. The result: sweet success!

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Test-Kitchen Fixes: Reduced butter by a third, added cream cheese as a butter substitute, replaced half of flour with white whole wheat flour.

Healthy Savings: We cut 18 calories and 3g fat; added 1g protein and 1g fiber.

New Nutrition Facts: 184 calories, 2g protein, 18g carbohydrate, 11g fat (7g saturated) 1g fiber

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Too many of the recipes do not state how many servings it makes, so the nutrition information is not usable.

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cg880 wrote:

I tried a few of these recipes: sand tarts, snickerdoodles, pumpkin spice cookies, and the whole wheat oatmeal cookies for some of my Christmas cookies this year. Never again! I spent a lot of time making these only to have them not turn out. I use high-quality ingredients and proper baking techniques, to no avail with these recipes. If you're going to have a cookie-- eat one, enjoy it, and move on.

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redsoxqueen0312 wrote:

Thank you!! Looks yummy

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divaquach1 wrote:

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