Low Fat Frosted Chocolate Cookies (otherwise known as Brownie Cookies)

Another tasty chocolate recipe brought to you from the staff of Young Audiences!

My husband and I prefer these cookies without the icing. We didn't think it really added anything but more sugar (although if you're into that...feel free to add as much icing as you could possibly want!). They are brownie-rich and yummy all by themselves. The recipe is in my box without the icing instructions, and we renamed it Brownie Cookies. I waited until after he'd eaten 3-4 cookies before I told my husband that this is a low fat recipe. He was already hooked and couldn't turn up his nose by then.

Low-Fat Frosted Chocolate Cookies (or Brownie Cookies)

3/4 cup all purpose Flour

1/2 cup dutch cocoa

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 cup canola oil

1 cup sugar

4 egg whites

For Frosting

1/2 tsp vanilla

2 cups confectioner's sugar

2-3 tbsp milk

Extra cocoa for Dusting

Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. Mix together the oil, sugar, 1 tsp of the vanilla, and the egg whites. Gradually stir in the flour mixture. Chill the dough for about an hour. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and spray your favorite baking sheet. Using a 1/2 tablespoon measure, scoop dough onto the sheet, leaving 2 inches between cookies (they really spread). Bake 8-9 minutes.

Allow cookies to cool completely. Mix the powdered sugar, 1/2 tsp vanilla, and just enough milk to make a paste. Spread a little icing on each cookie and dust lightly with cocoa.

Recipe comes from Diane Mott Davidson's caterer-mystery, Killer Pancake.

-Angela