Hi Everyone!
Do you crave chocolate? Caramel? Sweet treat? But are afraid of calories, fat and carbs? After all anything that is sweet and contains chocolate and caramel can’t be good for you. Well my Friends, I have solved your problem today! Today I give you a cookie that tastes like a caramel macchiato but is only 28 calories. This is not a joke, it’s for real and I whipped it up in my kitchen. No need to thank me, well ok you can.
These cookies are so sweet, so light, airy and ohhhh, the caramel and chocolate flavors, I’m slightly drooling right now. These cookies are made with egg whites, which makes them light and airy, and folded in with rich dark chocolate and unsweetened cocoa powder. For the caramel flavor I used J.R. Watkins Caramel Extract. The extract is a dream to people who love caramel, but don’t love the calories or sugar.
Making theses cookies is super easy! I beat 3 egg whites till frothy, added sugar, cocoa and extracts and beat till a soft peak. Fold in the chocolate and bam the batter is ready to bake and don’t tell anyone, I know its raw egg whites, but dam the batter tasted good. Pop the cookies in the oven for 10 minutes, then turn the oven off, open the oven door and let them rest for 30 minutes. They turn out perfect. I mad a Mickey Mouse shaped one and my Husband ate the ear, so I don’t get to show you. 🙁
- Serves: 34 Cookies
- Serving size: 1 Cookie
- 3 large egg whites, at room temperature
- ⅛ tsp. salt
- ¾ cup granulated sugar or 1 cup presweet tagatose
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ tsp. vanilla extract (I used JR Watkins)
- 1 tsp. caramel extract (I used JR Watkins)
- 4 oz dark chocolate, melted, cooled
- Position racks in the upper and lower thirds of oven;
- Preheat to 350 degrees
- Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper, nonstick baking mats or lightly coat with cooking spray.
- Beat egg whites and salt in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer on high speed until frothy.
- Gradually add sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla extract and caramel extract and continue beating until soft peaks form, about 5 minutes.
- With a rubber spatula, gently fold melted chocolate into the egg whites until no white streaks remain.
- Drop 2 teaspoons of batter 2 inches apart onto the prepared baking sheets, fitting about 16 cookies per sheet.
- Bake until set, 10 to 12 minutes. Turn off the oven and leave the macaroons in with the door slightly ajar for 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool completely.
Calories per cookie using Sugar: 36, Fat: 1, Sodium: 11, Potassium: 17, Carbs: 7, Fiber: 1. Sugar: 6, Protein: 1
Are you ready for the giveaway? How about a $30.00 gift certificate from JR Watkins? Now you can get lots of baking items to start the holiday season and the best part, no calories or very low calories. Now you can have a guilt-free holiday. That’s what I plan on doing. Last year I put on to many pounds during the month of November and December and I refuse to let that happen again this year! So extracts are the way to go!! I have made a ton of recipes in the past couple of months using Watkins extracts. I love using them in my frappes. Yummy!!
Birthday Cake Smoothie – Butter Extract, yum
Maple Leaf Frappe – Maple Extract
Skinny Caramel Frappe – Caramel Extract
Birthday Cake Batter – Butter Extract
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls – Butter Extract
Fat Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Yogurt – Peanut Butter Extract
That’s just to name a few recipes. If your a frequent reader of mine, you know I have a lot more recipes with fun extracts in them. 🙂 My Husband loves the cherry in his slushies.
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Can’t wait to win? Visit Vanillaholics website and for every order placed in the month of October you will get a $10.00 gift certificate. Awesome!
I plan on placing an order soon!!! I wanted to give you a little scoop on Watkins. They offer all natural herbs, spices, natural personal care products and natural home products. I have yet to try the body care products but I want too! They have an Ultra Rich Hand Cream that I want to try out. With winter coming my hands and feet get so dry! Plus they have vanilla lotion, my favorite. Plus there prices are average. Not all crazy or something. I buy my extracts for $3.49 a bottle. That’s cheaper than my local grocery store. 🙂
Well my Friends that is it for me!! I think my post is getting a tad long!
Have a super great day!
Toodles,
Jennifer
My grandmother always made meringue kisses during the holidays with chopped red and green cherries. They are simply meringue cookies. My family loves them with chocolate chips. Another holiday treat is boiled custard. I made it with lowfat milk and it’s delicious.
I never heard of boiled custard. I would love to try it! I bet it’s good! Meringue kisses are such a great and wonderful light cookie. I just love meringue!!
I love making peppermint bark. It’s so easy!
I need to make peppermint bark, but I am afraid I would eat it all! I LOVE Peppermint Bark!!
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Me too!!! Cookies are so fun!
I love baking sugar cookies.
I love sugar cookies, but I hate rolling them out. By the time I get to frosting them, I get to lazy and they end up plain. lol!!
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I love making my Grandma’s snowball cookies. Or anything peppermint and chocolate!
Ohhh snowball cookies sound so good and I’m with you anything peppermint and chocolate is amazing! Perfect for the holidays!!!
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We make pizzelles every year; it doesn’t feel like the holidays until we do so!
I love pizzelles! I have never made them, but I think this year I might. they are one of my favorites!!
We make that Christmas crack with the saltines & butter & chocolate. SO BAD FOR YOU, but the yummiest thing on earth!
OH MY GOSH! I want soem Christmas Crack. I bet it is soooooooo good! Calories don’t count over the holidays. 🙂
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I love to bake rich fruit cake.
Hmmm, I never made a fruit cake, but I bet I could whip up a fun nice one. Maybe I’ll give it a try this year?? I love the idea of fruit cake!
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Yummmmm! This looks AMAZING Jennifer! I love chocolate and caramel and this is actually pretty healthy! YUM!
Thanks Sophia! I love chocolate and caramel too!!! Maybe too much??
I make many different things during the holidays but I think my favorites are Peppermint Bark and Buckeyes.
I LOVE peppermint bark. I try to stay away from it because i have no control, but it’s so good!!!
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My favorite thing to bake is apple pie! I love them because they are easy and everyone enjoys them!
I haven’t had a good apple pie since my Mom made one many years ago! I love apple pie. I think I will venture out and make one this year! It’s such a great classic!
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My favorite thing to make over the holidays are pumpkin desserts.
Me too! I don’t know why we wait till the holidays for pumpkin??
I know – I would eat it all year round – I promise I will make a pumpkin dessert in the spring!
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Oatmeal Molasses Cookies 🙂
Yum! Those are one of my favorites. Molasses is such a great addition to a cookie!
I like baking assorted cookies.
Me too! There hasn’t been a cookie I haven’t met that I didn’t love!
I like baking my favorite cookies – jam thumbprints.
I love thumbprints. I remember my Mom making them every year and now I do. What a great classic cookie!
Peanut butter extract, yum!!
I love baking pumpkin bread during the holiday season.
Me too! I kind of have a thing for pumpkin! 🙂
I always make a huge batch of my peanut butter balls to give to people during the holidays – they are a staple each year for my friends and family!
I love peanut butter cookies and you know I love balls! I bet they are so good!!!
My favorite thing to make are my grandfather’s “Pa-Pa” cookies. They are these gooey peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies. They must be made with Watkins double strength vanilla. The do not taste exactly like they did when he made them, but they are close. They always make me smile and think of him.
Ohhh, Jennifer those cookies sound amazing! I love vanilla and goey peanut butter chunk cookies, oh my gosh! I can see why they make you smile! They made me smile and I didn’t even have one!
You’re pushing all my buttons with these Jennifer, chocolate, caramel, meringue, oh my goodness, they sound delightful!
Thank you so much Chris. How can you not love that combination?
anything pumpkin just seems so exciting to make!
I love to make oatmeal cookies. Seems simple, but my late grandmother had jars of them starting at Thanksgiving through December. They feel like the holidays to me, and they were the best oatmeal cookies I have ever had!
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I love to make cookies for the holidays-and these look like an AMAZINGGGG option!!!
Merengues with strawberries and sugar look christmassy and taste delicious, but it wouldn’t be Christmas without gingersnaps and gingerbread!
Funny I love gingersnaps, but only at Christmas time, how weird am I? Meringues with strawberries ad sugar sound out of this world! I would love those cookies!!
Ginger cookies dipped in white chocolate
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I have fond memories of the Watkins”man” coming to my grandmothers and having all of these wonderful things to sell. Also in our family we square the salve will grow a new limb if necessary. 😉
Funny, I kind of remember my grandmother having Watkins products. they are such great products and have been around forever!
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My Mom and I have been making spritz cookies since I was old enough to hold a spoon.
When I think of Spritz cookies, I think of my Mom! I used to love when she made them! They are one of my favorite holiday cookies!!
I love making pumpkin recipes: cakes, breads, muffins, pancakes!
Oh my gosh me too!!!!!!!!!!!
My favorite thing to make during the holiday season are caramels.
I never made caramels, but would love to try it!
I have a few items I bake–Eggnog bread, eggnog cheesecake bars, pumpkin crisp
You love your eggnog!! It’s such a great holiday treat and well you already know how I feel about pumpkin! 🙂
I love making pumpkin butter and coconut date nut rum balls.
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My favorite thing to bake is candycane cookies — I would use peppermint extract
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My favorite thing to bake during the holidays is gingerbread cookies with cream cheese frosting.
Yum!! I love gingerbread cookies, but they have to have the frosting! 🙂
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