Everyone knows cookies are treats that should not be eaten as a staple food. They don’t really have much nutrients that the body can get a decent use out of.

I started cooking cookies a few months ago as both my partner and I had stopped drinking alcohol but still had the sugar cravings.  I took the normal recipe for cookies and substituted some things out of it.

Butter – you always have butter on the list of ingredients with cookies. I chose to replace half of the butter with skim milk which made my cookies a little bit less naughty. With butter, the cookies are supposed to have a more shapely appearance and better binding than milk and I found with the milk added as a low fat partial substitute, I found my cookies were a little more chewy than my previous batch (which I find a great thing) while still having a crunchy outer coating. A little like Subway cookies if you’ve ever had those.

So overall, using milk as a partial substitute or full substitute, the cookies still come out well but with a lower fat content!

Also, make your cookies more nutritious by adding half a cup or a cup of oat fiber/ whole oats to the dry mix when preparing the cookies (this still works really well with choc chip cookies if you like making those). This will also add a little crunchy texture to your naughty healthy cookies!