Sugarless CookiesSugarless cookies are the feature here and the possiblities are endless for these healthy desserts. Life is sweeter when we can eat sweets the low glycemic way! You just don’t want it to be super sweet or a high glycemic sugar because then you will get blood sugar spikes. When combined with fats your body will store the fat and you will set yourself up for horrendous food cravings. So what is the magic ingredient for making baked goods sweet in the low glycemic world? FRUCTOSE won’t give you the blood sugar spike. It is low glycemic. There are lots of low glycemic sweeteners that do not raise your blood sugar but this is the one for baking.
So remember everybody, the number one glycemically ACCEPTABLE sugar to use for baking that works perfectly for sugarless cookies is: Fructose This is a non-synthetic natural nutritive sugar. Fructose is found naturally in fruit, honey and plants which can be produced from either corn starch or fruit. Corn starch is NOT the same as corn syrup! Corn starch is NOT high glycemic so don’t get confused about this. When you go to the health food store you will find that the fructose in the bulk section or in a package will either be labeled comes from corn or corn starch or comes from fruit. Both are fine! Fructose is 1 1/2 times sweeter than sugar so you need less in your recipe. If the recipe calls for 1/2 cup try half that. Cookies sweetened with fructose are “sugarless cookies” because they do not raise your blood sugar. They are made with a natural, low glycemic sweetener. These cookies are a great addition to your sugar free dessert recipes. Crush pecans in a blender or grinder, add butter, fructose and process. Add the flour. Shape into balls and put on greased cookie sheet 1/2 inch apart. Flatten with bottom of glass. Bake 12 – 15 minutes. Let them cool completely or they will be too soft to eat! Because fructose is cleared from your blood quickly it may IMPROVE glycemic control. People do vary in their ability to absorb fructose. In type 2 diabetes intake as high as 60 grams of fructose per day does NOT adversely affect glycemic response. The American Diabetes Association research states that small amounts of fructose actually improves glucose tolerance (GT) in normal humans especially those with the poorest GT. So, bottom line, if you find a store bought dessert sweetened with fructose it will be low glycemic as long as the other ingredients are also. The reason you want a sucrose free or so called sugarless cookie is so that it does not raise your blood sugar. You store fat when you have too much insulin in your system. Fructose is the BEST substitute for sugar when you are baking on the low glycemic plan! It has the closest texture to sugar and it will NOT raise your blood sugar. It is the ideal sucrose replacement for sugarless cookies. Pecan shortbread cookies above is the first of many sugarless cookie recipes you will be able to find here. Here is the secret to sugarless cookies. You can substitute fructose for sugar in any recipe and have sugarless cookies for all practical purposes. This sugarless cookie recipe is one of the great
sugar free dessert recipes to include in your low glycemic eating plan! The butter in them makes them very filling and they don't create the sugar craving problem.
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