Chewy Ginger Cookies with I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter #G2KHoliday

I guess you could call me an ingredient snob.

I wasn’t always this way. But sometime between my first and second year of marriage, I developed a cookie-making complex. Every batch I made was a flop and my husband convinced me that it all had to do with the ingredients I was using.

So I admit….it wasn’t easy for me to NOT use butter when I made cookies this week. Unilever has a wide variety of soft spreads, including Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!, Promise, Brummel & Brown, and Imperial. I use spreads for many other things, but rarely, if ever for cookies. But these statistics made me reconsider…

I love the fact that these spreads are Good to Know because they:

• Have 0g trans fat per serving
• Contain no partially hydrogenated oils
• Have no cholesterol
• Are 70% less fat than butter per serving
• Have 30% fewer calories than butter per serving

I realize that there are many misconceptions about soft spreads, so as part of the Good to Know initiative, Unilever has set out to dispel the myths and share the facts.

So I gave it a try. I bought some I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!, pulled out a delicious-looking recipe for chewy ginger cookies, and started baking.

Chewy Ginger Cookies Recipe

The cookies turned out better than I ever could have imagined. They were moist, soft, chewy….everything you could ever hope for in a cookie, really.

I had such a great time making these cookies with I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! that I made another cookie variety a couple days later (which I’ll be sharing this week as well). Keep your eyes open!

Visit ItIsGoodtoKnow.com for recipe ideas, tips and more! Here’s the link for the ginger cookies that I made.

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Note: I received the above baking set to facilitate this post, but all thoughts, photos, and baking opinions are my own.

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I became a mom in 1996, and in 2005 I had my fifth. Yes, 5 kids. In 2007, this blog was born (my 6th baby that will never grow up) and I've been sharing recipes, photography tricks, parenting tips, and everything in between. (Formerly Better in Bulk)

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