Hey all,
I’m new to baking but I want to try make some cookies that are diet friendly/lower cal. I have this recipe and since I don’t know much about baking I also dont know what I can swap out in these received for their lower calorie alternatives. Thought I’d ask here if anyone has any device or tips. This is a recipe for banana bread cookies because I’ve been craving banana bread like crazy
by Severe_Standard_3201
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You can try applesauce to replace yolk and butter/oil, oat fiber to sub *some* of the flour, and allulose or other sweetener to cut back or out the sugar.
Keep in mind, it won’t be as good. Cutting back on the oil and sugar would be the safest bets for reducing overall calories, but if it doesnt taste good anymore then what’s the point, right?
Sometimes you just gotta eat the real deal dessert and skimp on calories elsewhere in your day/week.
For the oil/butter you should be able to use unsweetened apple sauce, for the sugar you can use like monk fruit sweetener or a stevia of sorts, flour is a bit weirder cause of their conversions so try that one out at your own risk, and the choco chips you can just use dark choco chips, or none at all! 🙂 happy baking!
Seek out a lower calorie recipe honestly. I’m sure they exist.
Baking is science, you can easily ruin it with the wrong substitutions.
Even replacing the sugar with zero cal sugar replacement can mess it all up.
Otherwise please post the results on r/ididnthaveeggs lol
I have had great success replacing butter for unsweetened apple sauce, artificial sweeteners (specifically allulose) for sugar and brown sugar (that i use truvia’s artificial sugar – i think its an erythritol/stevia blend), and sugar free yogurt or cottage cheese for vegetable oil.
For flour I use this:
https://fibergourmet.com/products/flour-blend
Less than half the calories of all purpose flour, and i can’t taste the difference. It is pricey but Amazon occasionally has it for free shipping. Also its a lot of fiber so make sure you can handle that before you eat a whole loaf of bread or anything.
Here’s something I made with these ingredients :
https://www.reddit.com/r/Volumeeating/comments/1fx47j8/apple_cinnamon_raisin_bread_820_cal58g_of_protein/
I do this all the time, and most of the time it turns out well, but don’t expect the same cookies you would have with butter and sugar. I’ve made the recipe you posted with subs, and the cookies are pretty good, but the original one are way, way better!
Oil=applesauce
Flour= mix of oat flour and protein powder
Sugar=Swerve, and not too much either, the banana is sweet already
Whole eggs=egg whites
Always unsweetened chocolate chips, and much less than what is called for in most recipes.
I would seek out low-cal recipes other people have already tested and perfected. Substitutions often work but they also often don’t.
You might also try pivoting to pancakes. They more forgiving and require fewer ingredients. You can also make really small batches.
Two-ingredient banana pancakes might scratch your itch, for example.
Try this recipe but bake it in a loaf and add chocolate chips https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYw41JWj/
Or u can try the diet soda+cake mix trick w pilsbury banana quick bread mix. Add choco chips