Ha! Fancy a cooking trick using avocado as butter substitute? Well, the same way as you would replace butter with applesauce while making brownies, now you can do the exact same thing with avocado. Simply replace half of the butter in any cookie, cake or muffin recipes with puréed avocado. This swap not only cuts the total fat count by 35 percent, it also makes the cookies softer, chewier, and with less crumble. Btw: according to Trisha Calvo the swap doesn’t affect the taste at all.
Here are four scrumptious recipes using the avocado trick if you fancy a go:
- "not so thin mints" cookies.
- brownies.
Who would have thought? Have you tried this trick before? Would you? I’m totally intrigued by it! You? xo
P.P.S: And my favoruite morning booster.
13 comments:
Dear Diana! U always amazed me with these incredible findings! Will certainly try this! xoxo
This is the coolest thing. I always try to bake and cook very healthy so this is surely for me. I am planning to make brownie on Thursday using this tip. Jill
Elsa, you are so wonderful:) Glad that you like it.
Oh fantastic, Jill! Good luck:)
I am in!
I am trying a lot of new things for my holiday baking this year.
My son is now gluten free so it is always making me tweak things here and there in recipes.
Amy
I need to get some today for sure! Thanks for this!
love this!
I've never done this before, but I HAVE substituted avocado for mayonnaise in a BLT sandwich!!
I love it..l never thought of using as butter but it's definitely healthier!
This would be great for me, I love avocados!!
My pleasure, Tiffany:)
Great idea, Stephanie!
Amy, Deb from SK has a fantastic selection of gluten-free recipes. I've tried a handful already and they were great. Here is the link if you fancy checking them out: http://smittenkitchen.com/recipes/#Gluten
Btw: This soup is my all time favourite: http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2012/01/carrot-soup-with-miso-and-sesame/
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