Healhy Cookie Challenge

The Healthy Cookie Challenge was really fun! We had to change a basic cookie recipe to make it more healthy. My group was really choosy so we planned to replace the half of margarine with yogurt to reduce the fat and using cherries instead of raisins for a better flavour. But fortunately my teacher could not get any cherries so we used frozen strawberries. I was so happy about that because I like strawberries even more than cherries! This Cookie will be a drop cookie.

The dough is made out of margarine, yogurt, sugar, brown sugar, an egg, vanilla, all purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking soda, salt and rolled oats. We first mixed all the liquid ingredients and added the dry ingredients. We added the strawberries in the end so they did not loose their shape. To place them on the baking sheet we used two spoons. After 15 minutes we took out the cookies and let them cool down on a cooling rack so they did not keep on baking on the hot baking sheet and get dry. But I think in this case it would not have mattered because our cookies were so soft but already golden brown on the bottom. That was caused by the yogurt because it provides less structure than margarine. This challenge was also good to show how different ingredients have an effect on the cookies.
The yogurt took away the intense flavour of the strawberries, because we know that fat provides flavour and the yogurt we used was really low in fat.
The next time I would replace something else but not the fat. Maybe the sugar with honey.
I liked our cookies not that much because they were really soft and did not have a intensive flavor.