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Looking for a tasty, delicious, and healthy dessert use of your zucchinis? Try our low-carb zucchini cookie recipe. No sugar!

by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.

What follows is a very easy recipe for making delicious no-sugar, low-carb cookies -- with or without low-carb cream cheese frosting. It takes about 2 hours to complete this recipe, with 25 minutes of prep time, 1 hour for batter to cool, and 15-20 minutes of baking.

Ingredients

1 cup of Splenda granular (you could also use Stevia or other non-sugar sweetener)
1 cup of Splenda brown sugar blend
3 sticks of butter (but you can use light olive oil, applesauce, or some combination as an alternative for most of the butter)
2 eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (all-natural, sugar-free)
2 cups low-carb baking mix (such as Bob's Red Mill)
2 1/2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of baking powder
2 cups shredded zucchini
2 cups of 7-grain cereal flakes
1 cup chopped nuts (we use pecans, but walnuts work well also)

Optional Frosting: low-carb (no-sugar) baking chips to sprinkle on top

16 ounce package of cream cheese (room temperature)
1 cup of Splenda granular

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In large bowl, mix together Splenda and butter until well blended. Add eggs and vanilla.
Next, add the low-carb baking mix, cinnamon, baking powder, and baking soda.
Finally, fold in the zucchini bits and nuts.
Refrigerate batter until firm -- about 1 hour.
Using an ice-cream scoop or large spoon, place dough on cookie sheets, spacing about 2 inches apart.
Bake for 15-20 minutes, until the edges of the cookies are golden brown.
Cool on a wire rack.

If also making the frosting, whip cream cheese and Splenda together and spread a heaping teaspoon onto each cooled cookie.

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Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., creative director and associate publisher of Quintessential Careers, is an educator, author, and blogger who strives for healhy eating and living practices. She blogs about storytelling in the job search at A Storied Career. Katharine, who earned her PhD in organizational behavior from Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, OH, is author of Dynamic Cover Letters for New Graduates and A Foot in the Door: Networking Your Way into the Hidden Job Market (both published by Ten Speed Press), as well as Top Notch Executive Resumes (Career Press); and with Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., Dynamic Cover Letters, Write Your Way to a Higher GPA (Ten Speed), and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Study Skills (Alpha). Visit her personal Website or reach her by e-mail at kathy(at)quintcareers.com.