I am trying to find healthy recipes for cookies, muffins, and breads. I was wondering if I can just take a regular recipe and replace the white flour with whole wheat, the sugar with a sugar substitute, and possibly even the butter with applesauce.
we don't want to blow it for the holidays, but I feel we all deserve a treat.
2007-12-13 06:10:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
With breads the substitutes would be OK. On the sugar substitute box, it should tell you how much of the sugar substitute to use ex 1/2 cup of substitute for 1 cup of sugar.
Not sure about apple sauce for the butter. But, you could always use margarine.
2007-12-13 06:15:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For cookies- try using whole wheat pastry flour. whole wheat flour is more dense than regular flour, so the recipes are going to turn out a bit different, but I like the wholesome taste much better. For breads, it's okay to substitute whole wheat flour. I am not sure applesauce instead of butter would work. Organic butter is much healthier than margarine or butter substitutes. You can replace sugar with honey (but do a little research because you might have to modify the liquid/solid ratio since honey is a liquid and sugar is not).
2007-12-13 08:22:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Regular flour IS wheat flour. And that's what goes in crepes. So, yes. Use it. It'll work fine.
2016-05-23 09:53:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you sub all 3 (fat, sugar, flour), your end result will taste like crap, I promise.
Pick one thing, two max, to modify, and leave the other ingredient intact.
As far as subbing wheat flour for white flour, subbing equal parts will make a VERY tough and dense product. Sub about half the white flour for wheat for best results.
2007-12-13 06:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can find many recipies for alternatives at www.foodnetwork.com
I would see if they might have a few that you'd like to try, they also have instructions for substitutions that are acceptable and ones that are not for specific reasons.
Good Luck and enjoy the holidays!
2007-12-13 06:19:17 · answer #5 · answered by aylatroy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutley ! Most recipes taste better and you feel better knowing your eating heathier !
Plus if there is children , IT'S GREAT , they NEVER know , lol
2007-12-13 06:26:25 · answer #6 · answered by miss_brittanychantal 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes you can..i also read here on yahoo to use pumpkin filling in the place of oil and butter and it will keep brownies moist
2007-12-13 06:21:43 · answer #7 · answered by Julie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋