Sugar Free Cookies

[browngirl]

Today is Pi Day, and in its honor I'm writing about... sugar free cookies. Although I suppose I could probably make a no-sugar-added pie, if I worked at it.

So far, I've found some pretty good kinds of sugar-free cookies (ok, no-sugar-added for many of them, and yes, in the end starch is metabolized into glucose. Moving right along...) The cookies from Joseph's were the least delicious; I've tried several kinds, of which the oatmeal were the worst (tossed the bag) and the lemon so far the best, but all were small, hard, and floury. Still, the lemon and peanut butter have been better than No Cookies At All.

Decent Packaged Cookie Analogues include the Sorbee Oatmeal (softish), the Lite Harvest Enchantments Snickerdoodles (hardish) and the Keebler Sugar-Free Vanilla Sandwich Cremes (just as good as regular sandwich cremes). These were a better size (2 inches in diameter for the sandwich cookies, 3 for the others) and didn't taste odd. I bought all of these off of Amazon, and in the quantities shipped they were reasonably priced per unit (as long as one doesn't mind getting six bags of cookies at once).

The best are the cookies from http://www.perfectlysweet.com/ (which sell products from fake honey to a wide range of chocolates) which simply are the bakery-style cookies with maltitol, sorbitol, and/or Splenda switched in for the sugar. (I think all the cookies I've listed have one or more of those sweetners in them; I don't currently have packages in front of me to be sure.) The Pineapple Pockets (think pineapple hamentaschen) were rich, if not as crisp as they could have been, but the rugelach and oatmeal cookies are wonderful, not only not inferior to their regular counterparts but superior to many examples I've had of both -- the oatmeal cookies especially, with their brown sugar flavor. These are a bit pricey, but they've been deliciously worth it.

Now to dole out my cookies a bit less lavishly (they're sugar-free, not calorie-reduced), but it's nice to have baked goods again.

Comments

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

I'll have to check into those and see which of them don't have maltitol. Adam reacts extremely badly to it, and he really misses cookies.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Perfectly Sweet is really good about listing the ingredients; I'm sure by rummaging their site you can find some without maltitol.

If I find bakeable artificial sweetners that aren't maltitol I'll definetely tell you about them.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

...Is this a good time to mention the sugar-free maple-flavouring-flavoured "syrup" I saw at the supermarket today. Boggled my mind, it did.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm torn between cringing like a good New Englander, and being glad for the day when I'll need it.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Someone brought "Sugar Free Honey Substitute" to the kitchen at work a while back. I was a bit puzzled, but hey, if you like the taste of honey but can't tolerate the sugar, go for it, I guess.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

The pie is the truth

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I've heard of Schadenfreude Pie (http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004492.html); I'm trying to envison Truth Pie...

[wren13.livejournal.com]

I have converted my cheesecake recipe to sugar free, let me know if you want a copy. I also converted some of my mom's christmas cookie recipes, happy to share

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would definetely love copies of all of those recipies! Thank you!