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This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Truvia® Natural Sweetener for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
You guys know how much I love sugar. And, how much I love cookies. So, the Holiday season is pretty much my FAVORITE time of year. I start dreaming about all the cookies I’m going to make months in advance.
Last year, right after we moved into our new house, one of our new neighbors brought us cookies. Can I tell you how happy that made me? I mean, it was like Christmas came early or something. Let’s just say, at our old house? I was lucky if the neighbors would say hello to us, let alone bring me cookies.
Anyway, my new BFFs brought me some of the best little chocolate mint cookies I’d ever had. They were incredibly moist and SO delicious. I inhaled them like I’d never seen a cookie before and then promptly asked for the recipe. Thank goodness our new awesome neighbor is also a generous one – she shared it with me!
The secret of these cookies is that they contain oil instead of butter. It creates the most moist cookie ever! Who knew? Certainly not me!
Now, those of you who know me know that I’m always looking for ways to lower the sugar in lots of recipes, especially ones around the holidays. My dad isn’t supposed to have sugar, so I always make him special treats that he can eat. I usually end up making him truffles or something like that, because I’m sort of scared of baking with sugar alternatives. But, thanks to these cookies, I’m not afraid anymore!
These cookies are made with Truvia® Baking Blend instead of sugar. Truvia® Baking Blend is a mixture of Truvia® natural sweetener and sugar, making ideal for cutting down on the sugar in holiday baking. Truvia® Baking Blend has 75% fewer calories and twice the sweetness of regular sugar. It’s designed for easy at-home baking and bakes up with sugar-like taste and moistness in baking recipes. And it really does!
These cookies were moist, delicious, minty, and amazing – and they have less sugar than if I’d made them as the recipe called for them. Meaning that, while they are not totally sugar-free, my dad can still enjoy a few of them and not feel like his bloodsugar is going to skyrocket.
Using Truvia® Baking Blend in this recipe was easy. You use less that you would regular sugar, so the 1.5 pound bag goes a long way. I love the easy pour spout – there is nothing I hate more than sugar all over my counter!
And really. That pile of dough and chips. How much do you want to bury your face in it?
After you roll your cookies in to balls, you roll them in more Truvia® Baking Blend and place on the cookie sheets. The only difference in baking was that the cookies don’t spread like they would with regular sugar (and the fact that the recipe uses oil in the place of butter causes that too). I simply pressed my cookies down a smidge before baking. Easy peasy!
This made a lot of cookies. And they were too good! I had to freeze some for Christmas, or they would have all ended up in my tummy. (Like most of the baked goods do this season!)
Now I have something exciting for you!
Truvia® Baking Blend is hosting a contest for one of my readers! One lucky Crazy for Crust reader will win a $25 giftcard to the grocery store of their choosing. Pretty cool, huh? If there is one place I go broke at the holidays, it’s at the grocery store buying all my holiday baking ingredients!
Here is how to enter:
Leave a comment stating what Holiday dessert/cookie recipe you’re most excited to try re-creating with Truvia® Baking Blend. That’s it – just leave that in the comments and you’re entered to win.
IZEA Media (the sponsor of this post) will be picking a winner on December 17th. Click here for all the contest rules.
Good luck!
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup Truvia® Baking Blend
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup Andes Peppermint Crunch chips
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
- Additional Truvia® Baking Blend for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper (if desired).
- Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- Stir Truvia® Baking Blend and oil in a large bowl. Stir in eggs and vanilla. Add dry ingredients and stir until combined. Stir in Andes chips and mini chocolate chips.
- Place an additional 1/2 cup Truvia® Baking Blend in a small bowl. Scoop tablespoon sized drops of cookie dough and roll into balls (dough will be oily). Roll in Truvia® Baking Blend and place on cookie sheet. Dough does not spread much, so you can place a lot on the cookie sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes and cool completely on wire racks.
Want more ideas for how to use Truvia® Baking Blend? Visit the Truvia® website for more tips and information on Truvia® Baking Blend. And then get baking!
Thanks for reading!
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Hi there! I’m Dorothy, the crazy gal behind the blog. If you didn’t already know, I’m crazy for crust…and cookies…and brownies…and pretty much
anything with sugar.
What beautiful peppermint cookies! I never did get around to making a pumpkin cheesecake before Thanksgiving so I believe I’d start there.
I love those peppermint chips! and we could certainly use a little less sugar in our holiday cookies
Heather @French Press recently posted..Easy {no-bake} Gingerbread Treats
I am most excited about recreating cinnamon rolls.
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My husband loves gingersnaps but isn’t supposed to have sugar, so I will be anxious to try these with Truvia.
Let me know how they work! My dad loves gingerbread too.
I would try it with good old fashioned oatmeal cookies!
I’d love to try and make my Chocolate Crinkle Cookies recipe!
If I wanted to make these, but didn’t what to use Truvia/didn’t have it how much sugar would I use?
The original recipe called for 1 1/4 cups of granulated sugar. They are SOOOOOOO good.
Snickerdoodles for hubby and oatmeal raisin for me! Love to bake this time of year.
These look so good Dorothy. I want to inhale all of these now too! Mint and chocolate is a divine combo and perfect for this time of year. I’m weird though, don’t like mint separately but with chocolate.. a winner.
We get Truvia over here too but not the baking blend, will have to keep my eyes peeled for that in the New Year.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted..Dark and White Chocolate Mousse Parfait
Me neither! Only in gum or with chocolate. I’d never eat a candy cane. *Shudder*
I would like to try my moms fruited shortbread cookies using Truvia® Baking Blend.
I’d love to remake my holiday cherry poundcake with Truvia!
Dorothy- these look amazing. And it’s probably a good thing they use Truvia as I can see myself eating the entire batch before I even realize it!
Sarah @ See Sarah Bake recently posted..Peppermint Hot Cocoa Truffles
Plain ol’ sugar cookies. Then I can figure out the taste with Truvia and play around from there.
I would like to use Truvia in gingerbread cookies!
Kim of Mo’Betta recently posted..Perfect Chocolate Cake
I would love to win this, thanks for a great giveaway
Cindy recently posted..Happy French Toast Day
I’d like to recreate sugar cookies!
I LOVE chocolate chip cookies! Yours look yummy! I think I would try your recipe!
Dorothy, these cookies turned out perfect! Love the peppermint and chocolate combo; it’s my favorite this time of year!
Ashley @ Kitchen Meets Girl recently posted..Skinny Eggnog Pie {With a Gingersnap Crust}
I’d like to try it instead of Splenda in my PB Cookies
i have baked a few times using truvia and loved it. one of my favorite desserts for Christmas is peppermint bark cheesecake. would love to make it with truvia
I would like to use Truvia in red velvet cupcakes or cookies!
I would use it in chocolate chip cookies.
My first thing would be Snickerdoodles with butter cream icing, we love them.
I’d love to see how they stand up in cupcakes!
Loretta | A Finn In The Kitchen recently posted..Apple Pear Hand Pies (For Ev, Part I)
I would like to make cinnamon rolls
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i would love to use it in my ultimate chocolate chip cookie recipe! mmmm
Oil instead of butter… I am intrigued!
Katie @ Dip It In Chocolate recently posted..Razzleberry Pie
I do want to bury my face in that bowl of dough and peppermint chips. Yes, I do. I’d like to try these, actually, but also chocolate chip cookies. I always had bad luck with the Splenda baking sugar. Maybe this would work better?
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I would like to try it in my favorite gingerbread recipe
I’d love to make ginger snaps with Truvia!
I’m curious to see how Truvia does with traditional sugar cookies or snickerdoodles!
I would love to try it in the pecan cookies that I make at Christmas time. And I tried the peppermint/chocolate combo in some cupcakes I made for a fundraiser at the Humane Society -loved it! Thanks, Dorothy
Laurie
I would love to try it with some old fashioned choc chip cookies
I would love to make some cookies with the Andes peppermint crunch chips! I’ll have to buy some before they’re all gone!
I would love to try Truvia with some cookies made with Biscoff spread…would help counter the extra sugar that adds! These in this post look super yummy, too!
I’d love to try in my hubby’s favorite- snickerdoodles!
I can’t wait to try the Pepperming Chocolate Chip Cookies! Got to go put the recipe items on my shopping list now!
i would like to try truvia baking blend in my pumpkin cheesecake!
I’d want to redo some sort of peanut butter cookie
I’d love to recreate my grandmother’s delicious dutch apple pie with caramel sauce
Ha! I forgot to enter the giveaway when I commented before, so I’m baaaaaaaack! I would use truvia baking blend in……… some sort of cheesecake I think! Low carb
hahahaha…
Ashton @ Something Swanky recently posted..3 Musketeer Rice Krispie Treats
Oh man. I wonder how different my peppermint stick fudge would taste if I sweetened it with Truvia?! I am definitely up for that challenge.
Shannon Roche recently posted..Everything but the Kitchen Sink
I would like to make my favorite apple pie with Truvia
Love these cute little cookies! So cute and they look delicious!
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gingerbread men please!
I’d try gingerbread cookies.
I’d love to try using in a chocolate chip cookie.
I want to try baking Gingerbread men cookies
I would like to try in my all time fav sweet…brownies…