Fit Christmas bakery: 5 Tricks to reduce the Calories when baking cookies
In the Christmas season, you have to resist some temptations, not even a ball around like a Rumkugel to.
Where to hinstieht, everywhere sweet temptations, which could provide the turn of the Year, and for additional winter bacon curls.
Especially the cookie variety has a lot of the water in the mouth together. Who can say in the case of gingerbread, cinnamon stars and macaroons no to that?
Bake cookies yourself
Less calories, less fat and less sugar is the new currency for Christmas cookies – the pleasure and the taste is, but, of course, fully preserved.
Who has stood the last few weeks, bravely on Display with the Christmas sweets at the supermarket cons: way to go! Because the finished cookies often contain almost 50 percent of sugar comes to neat fat.
Calories save when baking cookies is quite simple: most of The calories come from fat and sugar. Most of the time you can save, especially on sugar, but the result suffers from it.
To sticky a lot and to be able to sweet calorie bombs can be avoided if one assumes self-control on the ingredients list.
Therefore, ran to the cookie cutter, now you can bake Yourself!
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Five Tricks to bake healthier
Baked Christmas cookies themselves, laid the Foundation for a healthier treat.
You need for delicious cookies but not the chocolate, sugar, honey and Succade and a bit of cinnamon, as it is called in the Christmas classic “the Christmas bakery” by Rolf Zuckowski so beautiful? Yes, that’s true.
But With a few tweaks a few calories, even in your own kitchen at cinnamon stars, rascals and vanilla croissants save.
1. Dark chocolate instead of milk
Dark chocolate calories is technically not just a easy weight – often it has even more calories than your lighter milk chocolate counterpart.
But dark chocolate has entscheidenene advantage: The Jieper chocolate is eaten by the intense cocoa flavour much faster. In addition, substances curb bitter the appetite. And: dark chocolate is rich in cell-protecting antioxidants.
The macro dark chocolate passes nutrients clearly full of milk: More than 50 grams of carbohydrates, and sugar, put in milk chocolate, dark chocolate (cocoa content of 85 percent) to trumps, however, with less than 30 grams of sugar, but 9 grams of protein.
Therefore, in the case of chocolate cookies, gingerbread or dominoes prefer to put on the dark variant super suitable varieties with a cocoa content of at least 70 percent.
2. On the dough put
The fit cookie baking can work well on lower calorie recipes, set about with yeast or biscuit dough. Shortcrust or puff pastry, however, a very fat by nature content.
Macaroons (for example, coconut macaroons) contain no flour and are low carb. Also you have a favorable calorie balance.
3. Sugar substitute
To save calories, you can screw in your favourite cookie recipe easy on the sugar and quantity of Butter or the flour completely with protein powder to replace. Should large deviations from the recipe you hold dear.
You take in too little Butter, the dough is dry and crumbles. And also the sugar you should not delete completely – otherwise, the taste fades so.
But Natural sugar substitute is sweet and has less calories.
Date syrup has less than 300 kcal per 100 Millilter. However, the viscous mass can not be used in any recipe as a substitute for sugar.
Better erythritol is A sugar alcohol, the carbohydrate – and calorie-free. Best of all, It can be used in baking, such as sugar, and has about the same sweetening power.
4. Narrower cheating
It can be difficult to nibble on instead of six, only three of Vanilla to the Cup of Chai tea in the afternoon. Then, it is now: Hello sham. Cookies narrower cheating can, in fact, quite simple: will rolls to a baking of the dough thinner than usual.
On the other, just smaller Spoon or small cookie cutters, use shapes. The biscuit plate remains as full as before, is feeding less calories.
5. Cookie plate colorful design
Just the variety of colorful cookies makes the Advent season so tempting. A colorful plate with different Treats you can enjoy without a guilty Conscience.
Important: the plate only chocolate coins and cinnamon are not part of stars, but also a large Portion of fruit.
Oranges, Apples and pears look great with Christmas spiced cookies, and fill the stomach much healthier – so the nicely dressed sweet tooth straightened in the truest sense, a great figure.
Annika Big Krüger
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