cookies! (and a question re: potato salad)

calliope_music
calliope_music Posts: 1,242 Member
edited September 2024 in Recipes
hi everyone! i'm looking for a recipe for sugar cookies (or any cookie that would hold up well with a cookie cutter) that doesn't contain about 12 sticks of butter and 5 lbs of sugar (an exaggeration, yes). i'd like to make some for a memorial day party this weekend.


also, potato salad recipes? i like the creamy kind, but don't want to put tons of mayo in. would plain greek yogurt work?

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  • SarahWrittenThin
    SarahWrittenThin Posts: 595 Member
    I would have to say Greek Yogurt would work for the potato salad...and some mustard and celery yummo.

    I will root around in my recipes and see if I have any good cookie recipes. Does it HAVE to be cookie cutter? can't just be normal round baked cookies?
  • calliope_music
    calliope_music Posts: 1,242 Member
    I would have to say Greek Yogurt would work for the potato salad...and some mustard and celery yummo.

    I will root around in my recipes and see if I have any good cookie recipes. Does it HAVE to be cookie cutter? can't just be normal round baked cookies?

    it doesn't have to be cookie cutter, but i just got a set of 100 cookie cutters and i really wanted to use them...haha.
  • SarahWrittenThin
    SarahWrittenThin Posts: 595 Member
    OO! that sounds like fun :)
  • rorosaw
    rorosaw Posts: 360 Member
    I love skinnytaste.com for skinnied-down recipes. Here's a recipe I love. http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/06/baby-red-potato-salad.html
  • PlanetVelma
    PlanetVelma Posts: 1,223 Member
    Here's a couple recipes on Hungry Girl for potato salad

    http://www.hungry-girl.com/newsletters/raw/1509

    http://www.hungry-girl.com/show/hungry-grill-i-cant-believe-its-not-potato-salad-recipe
  • syates83
    syates83 Posts: 87
    Could you make Sugar Cookies - sugar free...with Splenda instead? Instead of butter, use margarine??? I'm not much of a baker but it seems like it could work.

    Instead of potato salad...another potato dish that is easy and delicious would be Rosemary Roasted Potatoes...all you need is a bag of red potatoes, olive oil, rosemary, sea salt and pepper. Coat the potatoes with the ingreadients and bake. Yum!
  • cskalaj
    cskalaj Posts: 94 Member
    I don't think you can completely forego the butter and sugar without foregoing the taste, so here's my mom's recipe:

    1 Egg, 2/3 Cups oleo (margarine), 1/2 Cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1 3/4 Cup flour, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Cream butter & sugar, add egg, mix well. Add vanilla, stir, add flour & baking powder & mix well. Roll out thin on table. Cut out. Heat oven to 40, bake for 8-10 minutes or brown to suit you. I probably bake at 375. It usually needs more flour before rolling or it'll be too sticky.

    There aren't that many ingredients, so even if you make them for everyone else and just have one, it's not a big loss :)
  • BeckyKSmith
    BeckyKSmith Posts: 212 Member
    Here is the vegged out potato salad from hungry girl cookbook. I have it in the database too:
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/244952-72-calorie-vegged-out-potato-salad-recipe
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