Low Cal Cookie Recipe

Does anyone know of a low cal gingerbread cookie and/or chocolate chip cookie recipe...

The problem with cookies is that they generally need butter to make them what they are, that is, cookies.  Butter is really what gives cookies their high calorie content. 

I would recommend just eating a small cookie, and budgeting it into your intake for the day...besides, isn't eating the real thing more satisfying than some substitute?

you can substitute applesauce or banana for the oil/butter, use fat free dairy products, egg whites, sugar substitutes, and whole wheat flour to lower the calorie content and improve the nutritional quality.  This will change the taste/texture a bit though.   

Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by "low calorie."  80 cals/cookie?

Here's a ginger spice cookie recipe using Splenda, but I can't vouch for how good it is, or how big the cookies are.  I'll note that the one time I've attempted to bake with Splenda turned out to be a complete waste of time - even when using their "baking blend", the cake just didn't taste right.

I agree with kbella - a reasonable, planned portion of the real thing is much more satisfying than a mediocre substitute.

A quick easy cookie recipe is a box of any spice cake mix and mix it with a 15 ounce can of pumpkin.  Don't add the oil, eggs, water or anything else.  Just the pumpkin.  Then add about one cup of chocolate chips.  More or less depending on how many calories you want!  Bake at 350 for about 12 minutes.  You want them 'cake-like' done.  It makes about 36 cookies.  I don't know the calories, but I figure they have to be pretty good without the other stuff and adding the pumpkin!  I figure maybe 50 cal/cookie.

Well actually juust today I made cookies with a box of Betty Crocker Gingerbread cake and cookie mix. I made it with 1/4 cup hot water, 2tbsp all purpose flour and 2 tablespoons light I cant believe its not butter (like 50 calories per tablespoon). I measured out teaspoonfulls and baked them for 8-10 minutes at 375. Each cookie bakes about an inch wide and have 30 calories each. Its an easier way to limit yourself, and they are really good because theyre pretty much made the way they're supposed to be made.

Do keep in mind that eliminating fat and sugar will produce a cake like cookie.  There is really no good way to make them crisp. 

these aren't spice cookies, but they're pretty good

http://caloriecount.about.com/claires-chocola te-cookies-recipe-r21272