Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Low-fat Pumpkin Cookies

Easy version:

Ingredients
1 spice cake mix
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 cup chocolate chips

Instructions: mix cake mix and pumpkin together and drop by teaspoosnfull onto cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 5 to 8 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. One cookie equals one weight watchers point.

OR

1 cup flour -- all-purpose
1 cup flour -- whole-grain wheat
3/4 cup light brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cloves -- ground
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
15 ounces pumpkin -- canned
1 egg
1/4 cup maple syrup

Preheat oven to 325Grease large baking sheet with non stick cooking spray; set aside. Stir flours, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and ginger in largemixing bowl until well combined. Add pumpkin, egg and syrup in a small bowl and mix together well. Add to flour mixture and beat until well combined, but do not over mix. Scoop 2 tablespoons dough onto baking sheet. Flatten with moist spatula or fork. Continue with the rest of the dough. Bake 15 minutes or until browned.

Yield = 30 cookies Per cookie 81.4 calories, .3 g fat, 1.4 g fiber = 1 weight watchers point

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