Reduced Sugar Halloween Sugar Cookies!

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Reduced Sugar Halloween is a perfect time to whip up a batch of fun-shaped cookies! Grab yourself some themed cookie cutters, such as pumpkins, ghosts, bats, and more, and get ready to serve up some sugar Cookies without the Reduced Sugar Halloween. This recipe is based on using a sugar substitute in the form of granular sweeteners made specifically for baking.

Just look in the sugar and sweetener section of your grocery store and select a brand and package that states it is an equal measurement to sugar. Meaning, that 1 cup of your replacement sweetener is equal to one cup of sugar and looks the same when filling a measuring cup.

Reduced Sugar Halloween Cookie Ingredients:

1 cup butter (Light butter if desired)
1 cup no-calorie sweetener, Granulated (type for baking)
1 tablespoon vanilla
1/4 cup egg substitute (Eggbeaters)
1/4 cup water
3/4 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
3 cups all-purpose flour (sifted)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder

Halloween Sugar Cookie Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees (F). Next, blend the butter, Granulated Sweetener, and vanilla in a medium mixing bowl with an electric mixer, or by hand. Next, add the egg substitute, water, and apple cider vinegar. Mix gently before adding in the flour, salt, and baking powder. Continue to mix until your dough is formed Reduced Sugar Halloween.

CHILLING THE DOUGH – Place the dough on a floured work surface and divide it in half. Wrap each half in cling wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour. This helps set the dough for a firmer and workable texture that’s perfect for making cookies! It’s also a great tip for making pie crust!

When ready, prepare a floured surface and roll out the dough to a thickness of approx. 1/4 inch. These cookies will only rise a slight amount so go with the thickness you want your cookies to be. Make your cookies with your themed cookie cutters and place cookies on a prepared baking sheet.

Reduced Sugar Halloween Bake in your preheated oven for about 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned on the back. Allow them to cool on a wire rack.

The Halloween Themed Cookie Tip

This recipe is perfect for any season including Christmas. But what can set these tasty treats apart from other holidays? The answer is the color of the cookie! You can add a drop – or several – of food coloring to your cookie dough when mixing. You can make them orange like a pumpkin, yellow like corn, blood red, or even black which is perfect if you have a bat-shaped cookie cutter Reduced Sugar Halloween!

Adding Icing Without the Guilt!

Here is a great tip for those who enjoy a frosted cookie or one with sweet icing on top. You can make a low-sugar cookie icing using the same granulated sugar substitute that you used for making your cookies. Or, you can use a powdered version! Here’s all you need to do. Put some of the sweeteners in a bowl and add a few teaspoons of almond milk along with a drop of vanilla flavoring. Mix the ingredients adding sweetener and almond milk until you get the thickness you desire.

Now, add in a drop of food coloring of your choice! Add to your cookies as you normally would with regular sugar cookies! If you want to keep your cookies natural in color then this is a perfect way to add that Halloween Touch! For instance, you could make orange icing for your pumping shape, and black icing for your bat shape! Mix up small portions of several colors and let imagination take over!

This is a great recipe for making a cookie that has less sugar than a normal sugar cookie. It has all of the flavor, texture, and sweetness of a sugar cookie and it does not matter what shape of cutter you choose to make your cookies with Reduced Sugar Halloween. Enjoy the recipe and have a ghoulish time making them with a Halloween theme in mind.