thanks for that suggestion....yeah I too have read many times on this forum about the difficulty of getting the "cookie texture".
i've used the Smart Balance Light as a subsitute for margarine/butter before and didn't have any ill-effects when i made sugar cookies at Christmas. BUT of course, everyone is different....
the Smart Balance Light Nutritional facts:
Serving Size 1 Tbsp.
Total Fat 5g (8 %DV)
Sat Fat 1.5g (8 %DV)
Trans Fast 0g
And there is no hydrogenation.
Plus Smart Balance Light is Lactose Free.
8 ounces (1 cup) of Smart Balance converts to 16 Tbsps.
16 Tbsps "evenly separated" over 30-48 cookies = about 1/3 to 1/2 tbsp of Smart Balance Light in each cookie.
Thus the nurtitional information regarding the Smart Balance is only 1/2 or 1/3 of that for each cookie.
And if you count the remaining ingredients: the sugars and spices and flour and strawberries and egg whites and oats I don't think it it adds up to much more. As far as I could see on the packages of ingredients...only the Oats have fat (3 grams pers 1/2 cup)...
...so that all converts to:
18 g of fat through the whole 3 cups of Oats in the recipe 80 g of fat through the whole 16 tablespoons of Smart Balance Light in the recipe
= 98 g of fat in the entire recipe
= 2 to 3.3 grams of fat per cookie (depending on how big you make the cookie.)
And, as mentioned, the nutritional facts on the Quaker Oats box said there are 3 grams of fat per serving (1/2 cup being a serving). So each cookie has as much fat as one serving of oatmeal.
but i've also used unsweetened applesauce before too, so others may use that too.
i don't know if Heather might have anything to say on it?
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