Check me out, I learned how to use Excel today. I haven’t used a spread sheet since I was a high school teacher, and that was on an Apple II e- yes, I am officially a dinosaur. There have been many, many times recently that I would have benefited from having this skill and it was curiosity that finally drove me to it. I wanted to know how many calories were in one of my Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Fortunately for me, I converted my go-to recipes to grams instead of cups- try it, you can whack out a batch of sweets in no time flat when you aren’t fighting to cram shortening into a one cup measure. All I do now is place my mixing bowl on my handy-dandy digital scale, dump an ingredient into my work bowl and zero out the weight with each new ingredient.
All it took was double checking calories per gram of ingredients on a couple of web sites and voilà! When it came to finding all the calories per gram of ingredient, Google was great, so were company websites, like Nestle. All the info you didn’t want to know about home made cookies, now in one convenient spot.
To all my friends who have been eating these cookies over the years, don’t look…. Sorry.
| Chocolate Chip Cookies | ||||
| # of Cookies | 144 | |||
| Total Cal | 13789 | |||
| Total Cal/cookie | 95.75 | |||
| ingredient | cal/gram | # of grams | total | cal/cookie |
| flour | 4 | 675 | 2700 | 18.75 |
| white sugar | 4 | 620 | 2480 | 17.222 |
| brown sugar | 4 | 445 | 1780 | 12.3611 |
| shortening | 9 | 330 | 2970 | 20.625 |
| butter | 7 | 110 | 770 | 5.3472 |
| chips | 5 | 545 | 2725 | 18.923 |
| egg (per) | 72 | 4 | 288 | 2 |
| vanilla (T) | 38 | 2 | 76 | 0.5277 |
| not all ingredients are listed… | ||||
branching out... on a limb 