There is only one appropriate response to a good chocolate chip cookie: OM NOM NOM NOM.
So if one were to use, say, granulated Splenda or something, it would measure the same as sugar? I always thought artificial sweeteners were a lot sweeter than sugar.
No, it is sweeter than sugar, so you'd have to measure it out. That 2lb granulated Splenda bag you can buy is equivalent to 5lbs sugar. There's a converter tool on their website
most artificial sweeteners have a 1:1 ratio by volume with sugar so you can replace 1 cup/teaspoon/tablespoon/pinch/whatever of one with the other. It's only if you're using a recipe which has weights that you need to work out a conversion. Of course here in the UK all our recipes tend to be weight based so it's more complicated than in the US where recipes use cups.
How awesome of you to go out of your way for a friend! My coworkers are always complaining about calories, I'll have to whip up some of these for them.
Actually it's a sugar substitute. The one that I used has 7,2 calories per tablespoon, which gives roughly 100 calories in total. The butter is about 450 calories in total. 550 calories devided by 30 cookies is about 18,5 calories per cookie. The rest is from the chocolate, flour and egg. I think it's kinda hard to make something sweet with less than 50 calories, so I was very happy with the result.
2 cups of Wheat Flour, White, All-purpose, Enriched, Bleached = 910 calories 1 cup of chocolate chips (depending on the kind) = approx. 320 calories 1 tbsp of butter is about 100 calories, so 8 tbsp is almost double what you estimated.
So, just these four ingredients (the 100 for the artificial sweetener)(910 + 320 + 800 + 100 = 2130) 2130 divided by 30 =71. And that's not including the other ingredients in the recipe.
Just be careful with what you call low fat, diet, or diabetic- friendly. Just replacing the sugar with splenda does not necessarily make it super-healthy.
I appreciate the recipe, but it's important when claiming a healthy product to do your research and double check the math. (again, I used a calorie count site, it's pretty helpful!)
You weren't rude at all. Actually, you were right when questioning it!
I don't know about calories of ingredients in the US (I'm from Brazil), but, counting the calories of the ingredients I used, I got 54,12 calories per cookie (I made 39 cookies).
I did research it before making it and claimming that they were low-fat and I counted the calories myself, I weighted everything and made sure I was right before posting it and, more importantly, giving it to my friend who is trying to lose weight.
Just in case there are still some doubts, here are the calories of the ingredients I used, according to the packing:
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So if one were to use, say, granulated Splenda or something, it would measure the same as sugar? I always thought artificial sweeteners were a lot sweeter than sugar.
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The butter is about 450 calories in total.
550 calories devided by 30 cookies is about 18,5 calories per cookie.
The rest is from the chocolate, flour and egg.
I think it's kinda hard to make something sweet with less than 50 calories, so I was very happy with the result.
These turned out pretty good. You should try!
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2 cups of Wheat Flour, White, All-purpose, Enriched, Bleached = 910 calories
1 cup of chocolate chips (depending on the kind) = approx. 320 calories
1 tbsp of butter is about 100 calories, so 8 tbsp is almost double what you estimated.
So, just these four ingredients (the 100 for the artificial sweetener)(910 + 320 + 800 + 100 = 2130) 2130 divided by 30 =71. And that's not including the other ingredients in the recipe.
Just be careful with what you call low fat, diet, or diabetic- friendly. Just replacing the sugar with splenda does not necessarily make it super-healthy.
I appreciate the recipe, but it's important when claiming a healthy product to do your research and double check the math. (again, I used a calorie count site, it's pretty helpful!)
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You weren't rude at all. Actually, you were right when questioning it!
I don't know about calories of ingredients in the US (I'm from Brazil), but, counting the calories of the ingredients I used, I got 54,12 calories per cookie (I made 39 cookies).
I did research it before making it and claimming that they were low-fat and I counted the calories myself, I weighted everything and made sure I was right before posting it and, more importantly, giving it to my friend who is trying to lose weight.
Just in case there are still some doubts, here are the calories of the ingredients I used, according to the packing:
Flour - 548
Sugar - 100
Eggs - 160
Vanilla - 10
Baking powder - 30
Salt - 0
Chocolate - 813
Butter - 450
...Or maybe the packings were lying and it was more caloric than I thought? It is a possibility...
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