This recipe provides a lower-fat cookie made with raisins, water, oil, sugar, eggs, and whole wheat and white flours. The raisins are boiled for 5 minutes in water and then cooled before being added to the wet ingredients which are then mixed with the dry ingredients and dropped onto a cookie sheet to bake for 10-12 minutes at 400 degrees. Each cookie provides 90 calories, 17g of carbohydrates, 1g of protein, and 2g of fat along with 1g of dietary fiber.

1. Chewy Raisin Cookies
This is a lower-fat cookie than most that pairs nicely with a class of milk or calcium fortified
soy/rice/almond milk.
Makes 30 cookies
What you need:
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup oil
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup unbleached white flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
How you prepare:
In a pot combine raisins and water. Bring to a boil for 5 minutes, then cool. In a separate
bowl cream together oil, sugar, egg, and vanilla. Add cooled raisin mixture. Add
the remaining ingredients and blend thoroughly. Drop from a spoon onto cookie
sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 10-12 minutes. until done.
Per serving:
Calories 90
Carbohydrates 17 g
Protein 1 g
Fat 2 g
Dietary Fiber 1 g
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