Hey, Chick, are you skinny?
Sorry, the holidays are not a time to restrict. Traditions are traditions.
I will use my real butter, real fat, real lard, real everything bad for my holidays.
Save the “skinny stuff” for the rest of the year. Besides, if you did the “skinny stuff”, except for the holidays, there would be NO reason to skimp on the holidays.
I’d rather eat small portions than “diet-y” recipes. Putting whole wheat flour in sweet baked goods has never worked for me, and why would you bother with soy milk instead of milk when you already have butter and cream cheese?
There are some really good recipes which replace fat with applesauce; sometimes that works. But fake sugars can disagree with some people mentally and physically.
Custards are fairly low fat and can usually have the sugar reduced by as much as 75% IMO, as the milk and egg base is bland and sweet already.
You can put some clementines and strawberries out with your cookies, and some nuts too - not low fat but very healthy fat. Put them out with their shells on and that slows down the eating. Of course you can end up with shells all over.
Meringue cookies - no fat, unless you put some finely chopped nuts in. They might work with Splenda, too.
Any adult who likes coffee without sugar might just like hot chocolate without sugar. Float 2 Tbs (1/8 c) of ice cream in it - sybarism. Milk and cocoa, none of your nasty add-water mixes. Spike it - Kahlua, Amaretto. Or home-made vanilla extract.
here is a good one my kids love and VERY simple
APRICOT CREAM-CHEESE COOKIES
2 sticks butter
2 pakakges of cream cheese
2 cups flour
kneed and roll or form into shapes with RAISED EDGES
top with spoonful of apricot preserves
cook 325-350 for 12 minutes
All the sweetness comes from the apricots preserves.
You gotta make a circle with raised edges, or the apricot runs off the sides. My gramma used to make folded over triangles, but I like a lot of apricot on them.
And top them with a decorative line or two of extra cookie mixture or they will not ‘stack’ - the apricots will get all over the bottom of the one on top of it. I usually don’t bother because they are gone before I can even think about storing them
I can’t do soy milk, low fat anything or just use egg whites and i’m a skinny chick. I can change a few of the recipes around to make them good though!