Low calorie baking

[FoofyShmooffer]

I've baked a few things this half term with the children but when I've entered the recipe into my fitness pal, the calories have been ridiculously high. I want to be able to bake and make bits and bobs with them ( or on my own) and actually eat them without worry.

I also would like to make healthy snacks for us all rather than picking up rubbish at the supermarket.

So is low calorie baking an oxymoron or is it possible to make little things that don't have a ridiculously high calorific value and if so does anybody have any recipes they would share please.

I think it is not possible to be honest.. there are things that are less bad but am not sure that you can bake low cal when the basic ingredients are carbs and fat.. I know this has have DD8 obsessed with cooking and makes stuff every day - I have the weight gain and research to show it!

so my few attempts have been - making sponge using whisked egg method and not creamed fat, filling sponges with low fat greek yog and fruit and not cream and jam, making scones with lots of dried fruit and no sugar .. cupcakes get thin layer of water icing not buttercream..

I just wish I could get her to cook savoury ..

zzmum I thought as much. As you say a lot of the key ingredients are sugar/carb/fat based.

I did wonder about protein bars/cereal bars. It might be a start.

We made breakfast muffins this morning. Considering how bland they were the calories were v high.

There is the cookbook by SNOG which has lots of healthy snacks to make.

Thankyou. I've just googled that book. Might be what I'm looking for

I've got it, but havent made anything yet

Harry Eastwood's book Chocolate and Red Velvet heartache is good, the cakes are made using vegetables instead of butter, and you can't taste them, promise. I know an un-iced slice of her chocolate cake was only 4 ww points and was huge!

someone else recommended that choc & red velvet book to me, kiwi, and I forgot about it - thanks for reminder. have just bought it on amazon. might reduce my waistline while also being good for cooking gluten free...

I bake a lot and always get good results with HalfSpoon sugar (half calories).

Also, with most cakes you can replace some of the butter with yoghurt.

It's still not low fat, but definitely "less bad" than regular cake

There are load of recipes where you replace butter with banana, sugar with apple sauce or agar agar, loads of things. Do a google. Vegan baking is often much lower calorie.