Vanilla Chewies Lower Fat Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275 degrees F and place oven racks in the middle positions.
• Line one or two sheet pans with foil or kitchen parchment. Set aside.
• Beat the egg whites with the salt to a soft peak stage (when the tops of the peaks fall over when whip is removed).
• Add the sugar slowly, beating until the mixture is very thick.
• Stir in the cocoa powder, vanilla, and chopped chocolate.
• Place walnut-size mounds of the batter on the sheet pans and bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes until dry on the surface but still soft inside.
• Slide the foil or parchment with its cookies onto a cooling rack and cool for 5 minutes.
• Peel the foil or parchment off the still-warm cookies and cool them completely on rack.

Steps:

• Warm marzipan in microwave for 30 seconds to soften it.
• Cream marzipan and butter so they are mixed.
• Add sugar; mix.
• Mix in whole egg and egg whites.
• Mix in vanilla and almond extracts.
• Mix self-rising and regular flour together and add in thirds into the mix. At this point I hand mix as it gets thick and I don't want to overmix the flour.
• Drop onto cookie sheet.
• Bake at 375°F for 9-12 min for chewy cookies. Add 5 min for crunchy cookies.

Steps:

• Melt butter in a small sauce-pan.
• In a big bowl cream the cream cheese, butter and egg.
• In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder and vanilla. Gradually add this to the cream cheese mixture.
• Form dough into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Now either take small lumps of dough (aobut 1 ts) and roll between your fingers to form a long thickish string. Shape this into a pretzel or a curly loop. Or simply form into balls (size of a walnut).
• Place on a paper-lined cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes at 180°C/390°F or until tester comes out clean.
• If using the glaze, mix together icing sugar and enough water to make a paste. Spread onto cooled cookies.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Mix prunes & sugar until smooth. Blend in egg & vanilla. In separate bowl combine dry ingredients. Add dry ingredients to the sugar mixture. Mix in cherries & walnuts (note: I use a stand mixer & don't bother to chop the cherries. If you stir by hand you may want to chop the cherries before mixing).
• Drop by spoonful onto baking sheet. Cook for 8-10 minutes. These should be a bit soft in the middle so they turn out brownie-like in consistency.