Hey Mamas!!
My husband and I recently took our 5-y-o off of processed sugar for behavior issues and he is doing great! With the holidays coming up and him loving to bake with me, I'm trying to see if there is such a thing as a sugar free sugar cookie recipe or cut out cookie recipe that isn't gingerbread, he doesn't like it :(
I seem to be finding a lot of recipes that suggest replacing the sugar with splenda and stuff like that, which we would also like to avoid. I've also tried a diabetic website, but all of those recipes still have sugar in them, which I thought was weird....
I don't know if this exists or if I'm looking for a unicorn here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks all :)
My kids have as much fun making playdough, and then using cookie cutters on it, as they do making cookies.... They don't get the fun of eating it later, but they do get to have more fun smushing & shaping it, so I think it evens out! And it's the same amount of work/fun measuring & mixing the ingredients. I just made red & green playdough last night so we could have a little Christmas fun. : )
You could cut out pie crust w/ cookie cutter shapes. I would normally top w/ cinnamon sugar. I wonder if just cinnamon, nutmeg, and/or clove lightly sprinkled (or mixed in the dough) would be good. Oooh, how about grated cheese? You could flatten pie crust dough and put on nuts and/or fruits and roll it up. Cut into rounds or leave as a log and bake until lightly brown.
Good luck,
J.
I love pie crust cookies. I've always preferred desserts that were only lightly sweetened, and so I brush my "cookies" with a very light glaze of maple syrup and sprinkle with nuts. I also use one-third to one-half whole wheat flour, or one-quarter almond meal. Yum.
There are lots of other natural sweeteners you can use as alternatives to processed sugar, too. Investigate agave syrup, amasake, barley malt, brown rice syrup, molasses, honey. And stevia, available in both powdered and liquid form, is extremely sweet, but its sweetness is protein-based, not carbohydrate. A little in any cookie dough would do the trick.
Here's one website describing a few of these alternatives: http://www.truestarhealth.com/Notes/1841005.html
Don't use splenda or any other artificial sweeteners. stevia is healthy and not a sugar but it's sweet and can be bitter. I use xylitol or birch sugar... i buy it from theultimatelife.com It's natural and has no affect on blood sugar or insulin levels. I make my little boy cookies and I replace the flour with sprouted spelt flour and some almond meal and I replace the sugar with xylitol... you can also do the same with brownies. You can get sprouted flour at shilohfarms.net or .com Sprouted flour is really healthy and tastes great! Good Luck
Natural is always better. If your child is having behavior issues with sugar then it is, of course, up to you to decide what he can and cannot have. Also watch out for red dye #40. it's a bad one in lots of things.
Diabetics eat things with sugar in them. They just don't make meals out of them or live on them for weeks on end.
Good for you to know that artificial sweeteners are really, really bad for people and should be avoided at all costs. I have a friend who is a very bad diabetic and she got a new doc that told her to cut out every artificial sweetener and only use real sugar and she is not even using insulin anymore. Her blood sugars are normal nearly every time she takes them. Her father died from the type of diabetes she has so I know it is a serious kind. She had worn an insulin pump for years and now hardly ever uses any medications.
You can often replace sugar with honey or other unprocessed sweeteners quite easily.
I stumbled upon this recipe.
http://www.allhomemadecookies.com/recipes/cutout/sugarles...
