Low-Carb Oatmeal Raisin Cookies uses several low carb and low sugar ingredients to make a healthier cookie treat. Low-Carb Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are my recipe of the day for National Oatmeal Month. It is National Everybody is Trying to Diet month as well, but I digress. Did you make a resolution to eat healthier?
Add the flour and raisins, stirring until well combined. Drop the dough by the tablespoonful onto prepared baking sheets. Using the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar, flatted the dough to a scant 1/2 inch thick. Bake the cookies for 9 minutes, until they are barely set and just starting to brown around the edges.
A reduced carb version of the breakfast favorite cinnamon raisin biscuits. Splenda Chocolate Buttercream Frosting is a tasty and sugar free way to ice or frost your bakery treats using Splenda sugar substitute. Use of a stevia sugar blend reduces the sugar in this cast-iron baked apple pie by 75%- without any discernible loss in flavor.
But you could also add some molasses to the filling or a teaspoon or two of cinnamon. Ground cinnamon is often a beautiful complement to raisins. Use a thimble, or a thumb, to make a small indent in each cookie and that is where you'll put the raisin filling.