Uh, yeah. You read that right:
Low-Fat Chocolate Cookies
But nobody has to know they’re low fat. They’re THAT GOOD.
These things are BRILLIANT. They use low-fat yogurt and come out tasting like chewy chocolate brownies in the shape of a cookie. They are Weight Watchers-friendly (as long as you don’t eat, like, a dozen at a sitting as I am prone to do) and just amazing.
I just don’t even know. They are SO GOOD.
Plus, the fact that they use the yogurt makes them low fat. IN FACT, I tried them using full-fat yogurt (because it’s what I had lying around) and THEY WEREN’T AS GOOD.
It makes me all CAPSLOCKY. But I think a cookie that is BETTER with low fat ingredients than full-fat ingredients is WORTH a little INTERNET SHOUTING!
Don’t you? 😉
I whipped these up as sandwich cookies over at Tea Nibbles with some stabilized whipped cream. Whoamygosh. To die for.
Go make these now. You can thank me later.
Ridiculously yummy low-fat chocolate cookies that taste like a chewy brownie in cookie form.
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 5 T butter
- 7 T unsweetened cocoa
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/3 cup plain low-fat or fat-free yogurt
- 1 tsp almond extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour, soda, and salt; set aside. Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Remove from heat; stir in cocoa powder and sugars (mixture will resemble coarse sand). Add yogurt and almond extract, stirring to combine. Add flour mixture, stirring until just combined. Drop by level tablespoons 2 inches apart onto baking sheets coated with cooking spray or parchment paper.
- Bake at 350° for 8 to 10 minutes or until almost set. Cool on pans 2 to 3 minutes or until firm. Remove cookies from pans; cool on wire racks.
- Adapted from Cooking Light, January 2002
Notes
Regular or Greek yogurt works in this recipe. You can use full-fat yogurt, but the cookies don't get as thin and crispy around the edges, which is part of their charm.
Oooh, I'm going to have to try these.
I did make these, and they were delicious.
But “mixture will resemble coarse sand”? Maybe I did mine wrong, but the mixture resembled thick mud. 🙂
Ha! No, thick mud is apt, too. I just meant, it will look grainy, like sand, before you add in the yogurt and stuff.
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