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Low Calorie Oatmeal Cookies - A Recipe

What you need: 160g oat flakes, 120g ground almonds, 120g butter or margarine, 120g brown sugar, 1 egg (size M) and 1 egg white, 1 scarce teaspoon of baking powder, the grated zest of half an unsprayed orange (alternatively: half a teaspoon of orange peel flavor), some drops rum-Aroma (as you like), to decorate: powdered sugar or couverture (if desired).

1. Stir the butter or margarine with a mixer on the highest setting until smooth.
2. Gradually add the sugar and the rum flavoring (if desired) and stir in both until a bond is formed. Stir in the egg and egg white for half a minute.
3. Mix the oat flakes with the ground almonds, the baking powder and the grated orange peel (resp. the orange peel aroma) and stir about two thirds of it into the butter, sugar and egg mixture.
4. Enter the dough on a floured work surface and then knead in the remaining oatmeal and almond mixture with your hands.


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5. Shape the oatmeal dough into two rolls, each with a maximum length of 30cm. Wrap the dough rolls in cling film and refrigerate for a few hours.
6. Before you use the rolling pin to make oatmeal biscuits, you need to line 2 baking trays with baking paper and preheat the oven.
7. Take the dough rolls out of the fridge and cut them into 0.5 cm thick slices, place them on the prepared baking sheets and reshape them if necessary.
8. Bake the low-calorie oatmeal biscuits at 160 degrees hot air or 180 degrees top / bottom heat in the middle of the oven for 10-12 minutes. Pay attention to the degree of browning of the biscuits, they should not get too dark.
9. Pull the finished oatmeal biscuits with a few calories from the baking sheet and let them cool. Dust the cooled oatmeal biscuits with powdered sugar or sprinkle them with melted couverture.
10. Keep the finished, low-calorie oatmeal cookies in a metal tin so they stay nice and crispy.

Recipe variations for the low-calorie cookies

1. The “normal” flour can also be replaced by wholemeal flour: this makes the oatmeal biscuits even “healthier”.
2. An oatmeal cookie has about 29 calories. If you want to save additional calories, consider using a semi-fat butter or yogurt-based margarine. Make sure, however, that the product (according to the packaging label) is suitable for baking.
3. You also have the option of replacing the sugar with liquid sweetener or another diet sweetener. This further reduces the calorie content of the cookies.
4. If you enrich the dough with 2-3 tablespoons of desiccated coconut, the oatmeal cookies get an even finer taste. The calorie content changes only slightly.
5. Those who appreciate the spicy, slightly pungent taste of ginger can use 1 teaspoon instead of the orange peel flavor Ground ginger and / or 2 tablespoons of chopped, candied ginger under the batter of the low-calorie biscuits knead.
6. Replace the almonds with ground hazelnuts or walnuts if you like.