How To Make Healthy Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies

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INGREDIENTS:

1 cup (s) all-purpose flour
 
1 cup (s) white whole wheat flour
 
1/2 teaspoon (s) baking powder
 
1/4 teaspoon (s) salt
 
1 cup (s) sugar
 
1/2 cup (s) of trans-fat free vegetable oil (60% to 70% oil)
 
1 large egg
 
2 teaspoon (s) vanilla extract

DIRECTION:

On wax paper, stir together flour, baking powder, and salt.
In a large bowl, with mixer on low speed, beat sugar and vegetable oil spread until blended. To increase the speed is high; beat until light and creamy, about 3 minutes, scraping side of bowl occasionally with a rubber spatula. Reduce speed to low; beat in egg and vanilla, then beat in the flour mixture just until blended.

Divide dough in half; flatten each half into a disk. Wrap each disk in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours or until dough is firm enough to roll.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. On a lightly floured surface with floured rolling pin, roll 1 dough 1/8 inch thick with a piece. 2-inch cookie cutters, cut out cookies as possible; wrap and refrigerate trimmings. 

With lightly floured spatula, place cookies, 1 inch apart, on ungreased large cookie sheet.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. With a thin metal spatula, transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool. Repeat with the remaining dough and trimmings.
The size of the cookie = 1 serving

Berry-Orange Linzer Jewels: Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies Prepare a 1-step and 2 above, but add.1 teaspoon grated orange peel, egg and vanilla. Chill, roll, and cut as above but in steps 3 and 4 using the scalloped 2-inch square or round cookie cutter. Use a star-shaped or other small decorative cutter to cut out the center of half the cookies. 

Bake and cool in step 5 above. When cookies are cool, if desired, sprinkle with confectioners' sugar through sieve over cookies with cutout centers. 1/4 cup seedless red raspberry jam, spread a scant 1/2 teaspoon jam on each whole cookie; top of cookie with cutout center. Linzer makes about 3 dozen cookies.

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