Fall always makes me crave pumpkin. Yes, as I so quickly fell prey to those ads from Tim Hortons & their pumpkin muffins (but I did NOT give in to their 9 points of fat & calories!), I gave that tempting devil treat away before I could eat it.
But I did decide it was time to break out the cans of pumpkin and some of my favorite pumpkin recipes.
Here's one of my favorite soft pumpkin cookies. The original recipe used regular brown sugar & a combination of spices. I found that using the Splenda Brown Sugar blend & an easy fix of pumpkin pie spice made it lower in calories (same points as the original but if you eat 2 it does make a difference) & a little easier than measuring out 3 or 4 different spices to get the pumpkin pie spice flavoring!
1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 cup whole grain wheat flour
6 Tablespoons SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/4 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
15 oz. can pumpkin
1 egg (using an egg substitute doesn't change points & makes the cookies harder & less 'fluffy' so just use the egg for best results!)
1/4 cup maple syrup
Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease large baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray; set aside. Stir flours, sugar, baking soda, and pumpkin spice in large mixing bowl until well combined. Add pumpkin, egg and syrup in a small bowl and mix together well. Add to flour mixture and beat until well combined, but do not over mix.
For each cookie, scoop 2 level tablespoons of dough onto greased baking sheet. (I like to use a round style measuring spoon and flatten the dough across with a knife). Flatten with fork. Continue with the rest of the dough until dough's gone.
Bake 15 minutes or until browned.
68 calories, 0 g fat, 1.4 g fiber
Check out this other 1 pt version of Vegan Fat Free Pumpkin Cookies by FatFree Vegan Kitchen: October 2008 Edition
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